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...government spy. He seems strangely jittery about us talking to people on the road. And then there's his hair. In two years working as a correspondent in Vietnam, I've developed a private theory about communist officials and combovers: the lower the part, the higher the rank...
...interview last week, Summers said Harvard also should work harder to solicit large, institution-shaping mega-donations, a category in which it has fallen behind other Universities. While the University continues to rank as one of the top fundraisers in higher education, its largest ever gift—$70.5 million from the Loeb family in 1995—was surpassed by 62 other gifts on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s all-time donation list...
...boys” and get them out of the Middle East as soon as possible. Does Dean honestly think he’ll get the vote of any American who has even the least bit of love for Bush (well over half at this time), or those who rank terrorism or defense as the most “important issue” (more than a third of Americans)? If he, or his supporters do, they’re in for an unpleasant surprise...
...fact, elements of the management structure championed by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who instituted a "forced ranking" system, have infiltrated deep into corporate America. Such systems rank employees along a bell curve in which the top 10% typically receive an A grade or equivalent, the middle 80% earn a B, and the bottom 10% earn a C--and a send-off if they don't improve. Such "rank and yank" systems gained popularity in the 1990s, and about a third of companies now use them, up from 13% in 1997, according to the consulting firm DDI. "Of course...
Critics say rank and yank can be used as a smoke screen for downsizing or simply dumping older workers who populate the lower rankings. Ford and Goodyear dropped their forced-ranking systems after a number of discrimination lawsuits. GE is using its grading practice to cut labor costs, says a former manager in the medical division. He says he was pressured to identify employees as "Code 4s" (on a 1-to-4 ranking scale, with 4 being worst) and "get rid of them. I never had 10% of my workers who were Code 4s, but I had to come...