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...head of the company approached psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate weakness that they are helpless to overcome. And that confidence in their power to effect change is self-reinforcing. Seligman tracked 15,000 new workers who had taken two tests. One was the company's regular screening exam, the other Seligman's test measuring their levels of optimism. Among...
...sweeping case was virtually unprecedented among SEC actions, which are typically narrower in scope. "In effect, the SEC reviewed a course of conduct that stretched over a decade and said it was systematically bad," noted Joel Seligman, a University of Michigan law professor. Concedes a Prudential spokesman: "We made some real mistakes in terms of how the partnerships were marketed and sold." In all, some 400,000 individual investors lost money on the deals...
...Faculty recruitment and faculty tenuring should be their number one priority," said history concentrator Gary P. Seligman '94, "I think they should get people to teach tutorial before they start fixing...
...most serious allegation facing MacDonald -- who has yet to respond to a committee subpoena -- concerns a tawdry kickback scam. In July 1987 MacDonald arranged for the Navajos to buy the 491,000-acre Big Boquillas ranch near Seligman, Ariz. The tribe paid $33.4 million for the place, which only two days earlier had been purchased by an oil company for $26.2 million. Real estate broker Byron ("Bud") Brown testified that when he was fixing the deal with MacDonald, the Navajo leader smiled and said, "I assume I'll be taken care of." Replied Brown: "Certainly...
Several Harvard students have helped Oxfam's effort, Seligman said. Randall E. Hubbard '83 said he started distributing literature for Oxfam while researching a project for Social Sciences 174, "Coping With International Conflict...