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...spear on what may be the most ambitious business effort in the 231-year history of the U.S. Army: an attempt to adopt a management theory, Lean Six Sigma, across the entire service. More comprehensive than the attempt in the 1960s by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to introduce the highly quantitative "system analysis" to the Pentagon, this is an enormous experiment: the Army has an annual budget of $160 billion, with 1.1 million men and women in uniform, and it employs an additional 230,000 civilians. "This is the largest deployment of management science since the beginning of the discipline...
...fully American form of dance: ballet with machismo. Compared with the slim, elegant Astaire, Kelly was Everyman, all man. And for a wonderful while, he did it all: sang, danced, acted, choreographed and directed. Singin' in the Rain is his masterpiece, but there's lots more to savor in Robert Trachtenberg's excellent...
Geographer Jean-Robert Pitte, 56, president since 2003 of the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), rose to notoriety this spring with his criticism of the uprising against the government's abortive law to make it easier to fire - and therefore hire - young people. Pitte's new book, Young People, They're Lying to You: Reconstructing the University, is a stinging critique of French education. He spoke with Time's James Graff in Pitte's office. How many of the 26,000 students at the Sorbonne are really students? Between 10 and 15% of them are false students who enroll...
...front company for Rosneft. Those confiscated Yukos assets now constitute about 70% of Rosneft's oil production and reserves. The company's initial public offering (ipo) prospectus lists more than $47 billion in outstanding legal claims relating to the Yukos affair, and Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, decries Rosneft as "the handmaiden of expropriation." Security Even some investors who are bullish on Russia are concerned. "The Russian legal system is not a credible one, and that has a visible impact on the safety of investments in the country," says Karina Litvack, the head of corporate governance and socially responsible investing...
Summers has top-level connections at both firms. The president’s mentor and predecessor as Treasury Secretary, Robert E. Rubin ’60, is the chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee and a member of the Corporation. And in Summers’ final Commencement address, the president described the life of a Bronx mailman’s son who had risen to lead a top American financial firm, an apparent reference to newly appointed Goldman chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein...