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...chairman saw the need to overhaul the firm's culture. He ordered each company to meet performance targets--to be No. 1 or No. 2 in its market--and to meet quantified goals for leadership and innovation or be sold. Tata Steel, for example, shed half its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets groupwide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided...
...five and seven demonstrate a predilection for people who have seen their lives graced with good fortune as compared to those who have suffered from poor luck. Furthermore, this tendency is not limited to individuals, but rather, is applied to larger groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky to the unlucky,” said Kristina R. Olson, a Harvard graduate student in psychology and a co-author of the study. “They extend that preference beyond the individual to entire social groups...
...Spencer's first change was the easiest. She replaced all the household light bulbs with compact fluorescents and lost 8,500 pounds. Instead of using the clothes dryer, she hangs her wash outside and uses cold water in the washing machine. That shed another 2,500 pounds. She drives slower - ever accelerating past 55 miles per hour in her Honda Civic. Another 2,500 pounds lost, plus a boost in her mileage up to 39 miles per gallon. Finally, the family devised a new commute plan that enabled her husband and her daughter to ride their bikes to work...
...eager to shed Dow's longtime image as an environmental pillager. How can you reclaim credibility...
...considers the tradition benign. “It’s fine if you don’t get the books sticky; it’s kind of a harmless thing.” Library representatives had no comment. Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) also didn’t shed much light on their approach to such incidents. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano writes in an e-mail: “As a matter of policy we never speak about specific security issues except to say that like all police departments, HUPD uses discretion in all of its activities with...