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...Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama...
...fast operation too; it came together in less than 14 days. Highlights included a YouTube channel and a cartoon with instructions on how to participate in the glow-stick event (plus a tout for the town as the birthplace of a co-inventor of the laser, which gave rise to fiber optics). "We're a city in the midst of reinventing itself as a tech community, and we think Google Fiber could really help," says Aaron von Frank, the baby-faced 31-year-old tech developer who spearheaded the effort to get Google's attention as local officials completed...
Kiechel, a former managing editor of FORTUNE, hails the rise of strategy, saying it has eclipsed "any other change worked in the intellectual landscape of business over the past 50 years." The "lords" are Bruce Henderson of BCG, Bill Bain of Bain & Co., Fred Gluck of McKinsey and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. He traces their quest to understand how companies gain competitive advantage. The strategy revolution, Kiechel writes, "features a rowdy parade of ideas and analytical techniques jostling each other down the historical road...
Travia said that the information will be especially important this year because AODS has projected that alcohol-related hospital admissions at Harvard will rise again after jumping by 35 percent last year...
...mushrooming number of undergraduates partaking in unpaid internships—up from nine percent in 1992 to 83 percent in 2008—has led many, including President Obama’s Labor Department, to question the legality and the advantages of such employment. Critics argue that the rise of unpaid internships has led to increased socioeconomic disparity, as lower-income students cannot sacrifice a summer salary to participate in such programs and are thus handicapped in the later race for post-collegiate jobs...