Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's. The terms of Harvard's unsuccessful bid for the site would have let St. Paul's parish choose between a $3 million sale price with a promise to include some low-income housing in the development, or a $4 million ticket to develop the whole lot for profit...
...Kennedy School program, which will try to match Kennedy School participants with local non-profit organizations, may prove to be a model in the future for other such programs at the professional schools, said Chuck J. Supple, the clearinghouse organizer...
Graduates profit from the Harvard moniker attached to their resume, but many Hill staffers say they place little day-to-day value in the academic lessons of their K-School years. However, many graduates say that courses in management and communications proved particularly helpful...
...addition to these academic critiques,Kennedy School graduates have a commoncomplaint--the uncertainty of what to do withtheir degrees. "It [the K-School] is a great placeto go and waste two years," says Canfield, addingthat to profit academically from the environment,Kennedy School students must have very specificgoals...
Even as a paper boy, Lewis showed signs of managerial talent. Rather than give up his delivery route while he was away at summer camp, the youngster turned over the job to his mother. Says she: "He paid me a salary, but he made sure that he made a profit, believe me." These days Lewis still believes in delegating work. In the acquisition of McCall, he allowed its two top executives to take an ownership stake in the company as a way of motivating them. Then Lewis set goals for the managers, but refrained from looking over their shoulders...