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...business. The freshly lettered office doors in New York and Washington provide the name: Kissinger Associates Inc., a blue-chip team that includes Lord Carrington, 63, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister when the Argentines invaded the Falklands, and Robert O. Anderson, 65, retired chairman of Atlantic Richfield. The firm's services: strategic planning and advice on international-business decision making for about 20 large long-term corporate customers willing to pay the reported $250,000-a-year retainer...
Firms that have already gone into the field report that networks can quickly change office style. Atlantic Richfield Co. has installed a pilot project that links 50 employees on the 21st floor of its Los Angeles corporate headquarters. Says Deanna Bengston, the director of Arco's office support program: "People are collaborating more on documents; it's affected the working style." At the nearby Transamerica Corp. offices, some 200 employees on three floors are connected by a network. Says Transamerica Consultant Zara Haimo: "We're looking for improved quality in the way people work...
...Lowell read from the Bible to silent students and walked his spaniel Phantom around the campus, one could and occasionally did walk to Walden Pond, The Advocate published with some regularity, and the clubs were a center of College life. As Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, later president of Atlantic Richfield and RCA, recalls: "The Porcellian, Delphic, A.D. and Fly were still spoken of with awe by those of us who were in the lesser clubs" Adds Thomas Boylston Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given to them. But the object of coming to Harvard...
With the increased use of cash come problems. Last week Atlantic Richfield Co. stopped accepting credit cards, claiming that the resulting lower overhead costs would permit it to drop the price of gasoline by about 30 per gal. ARCO, though, is so fearful of gasoline stickups that it is installing safes in most of its stations...
...ACSR also split last night on a pair of proposals that ask Exxon and Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) to issue report on their activities Chile Harvard owns about $28 million in Exxon and about $34 million in Atlantic Richfield, according to the University's most recent financial report...