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...REIN IN CEO PAY In 1980 the average CEO made 40 times the pay of the average factory worker; by 2000 the ratio had climbed to 531 to 1. This is silly. Talented executives are not that rare. The problem is that too many boards demand someone who has already been a CEO somewhere else, to avoid the criticism that would follow if a rookie CEO didn't work out. So we get a transient band of failed leaders like Michael Armstrong at AT&T and Joseph Nacchio, most recently at Qwest. Whenever possible, companies should promote from within...
...pays a lot of attention to the academic and holistic well-being of undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard,” says Shaun L. Rein, a TF for Historical Study A-74 and president of the Graduate Student Council...
...while many faculty and students still anxiously await sweeping change, on the academic front Summers has been moderately successful in his first year—receiving credit for loosened study abroad regulations and efforts to rein in grade and honor inflation...
Attempts to rein in the revelry continued into the eighteenth century. The College passed a rule in 1722 to prevent students from providing “distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith, upon pain of being fined twenty shilling and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors...
...controversy came during an ongoing effort to fill empty seats, consolidate schools and rein in the district’s budget deficit...