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Inside an empty former electronics factory in the Dutch town of Eindhoven, hundreds of Philips employees sit around endless rows of tables. Split into small groups, staffers of the Amsterdam-based firm--maker of everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to TVs and X-ray machines--get to work. "We're...
In this simplified, consumer-focused Philips, the idea is that advances in lighting technology can migrate quickly to other parts of the company. At the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, heart patients visiting Philips' Ambient Experience catheterization lab can choose from a range of lighting themes, projected onto ceiling screens, to...
Even the section devoted entirely to citizen and visa services, the consulate, is little more than the paper-generating hub of this apparatus. They operate mostly like unusually officious post offices with Kalashnikov-armed guards outside. Consulates close unexpectedly on both native and foreign holidays, take long lunch breaks and...
Needless to say, those numbers traders seem to play with on their many computer screens every day from dawn to dusk are hard to conceive of as tangible funds. In his overwhelming desire to achieve upward social mobility, Kerviel forgot that it was real money – and that...
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—With both teams riding three-game Ivy losing streaks, the Harvard men’s basketball team went to Yale on Friday night looking to turn its season around. But after the Bulldogs (8-11, 2-3 Ivy) used a 20-5 run to...