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...fast-growing nonprofit sector faces a shortage of senior leaders estimated at 640,000 over the next decade, reports executive search firm Bridgestar. You may not be able to leave a financial legacy, but here are three ways you can live a fulfilling...
...search for that shop-till-you drop formula, Wal-Mart is testing one prototype in the middle of Middle America--Elyria, Ohio. Castro-Wright strides into a very un-Wal-Mart-like area that features low, wood-veneer (actually recycled plastic) side counters where towels are displayed. You can actually see over the department, and the sight makes you want to linger; you're not hemmed in by the usual 8-ft.-high (2.5 m) discount-store shelving crammed with merchandise. The assortment--the colors and styles--is broad and deep, even attractive. The prices are killer, natch...
...huge amount of material.The other important player in the digitization of Harvard’s libraries has been the Google Library Project. Perhaps in a quest to validate a commonly held student belief that all the knowledge in the world is available on Google, the company introduced a Book Search tool in 2004. Google is currently working with Harvard’s library, among others, to scan all public domain books. The company is also scanning copyrighted books, although not at Harvard, allowing them to be searched but not read in their entirety, but faces legal challenges from publishers. Google...
...Faculty, the University president, who sits atop the entire structure, is not chosen by members of the University. Rather, the president is chosen by six members of the Corporation with the advice of three members of the Board of Overseers. During last year’s presidential search, students and members of the Faculty were consulted, but none of them were able to interview candidates. The search committee met with 350 individuals, sent letters to 245,000 persons, and received 2,300 correspondences on the topic. But at the end of the day, all of this was advisory...
...system still puts a handful of students in a privileged state. There will always be only one or two students on committees meeting behind closed doors in University Hall. There will always be a handful of students who know what’s about to happen next in the search for the next dean. There will always be representatives who, noble as they may be in seeking to speak for their constituency at large, will always ultimately act as a single student...