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...years, the rap on American managers has been that they're short-term thinkers, cowed by Wall Street--the nerve!--to make the quarterly number or see their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending...
...tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there are as many as 1,200-1,500 individuals working in short-term positions on the University's casual payroll. Who is hired for these positions and how much they are paid is at the discretion of local managers...
...have all heard the self-important Harvard talk of "effecting change to a greater scale." This is a usual response I have heard when students dismiss teaching as a short-term or long-term career possibility. Socially conscious students who nurture idealistic ambitions of saving the world aspire to "large scale change" through careers in law, medicine, government, educational policy or academia...
...book, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, in which he presents the findings of his 37-culture study of male and female mate preferences and discusses the evolutionary origins and behavioral consequences of what he finds. A section titled "The Hidden Side of Women's Short-Term Sexuality," which elaborates on such topics as what women stand to gain from "casual sex as one strategy within a flexible sexual repertoire," gives the lie to Ehrenreich's claim that evolutionary psychologists have been "fooled" into believing myths of female chastity. Ehrenreich might be more comfortable in a debate between...
...Focusing on 'what students want' would tend to focus on short-term goals, and we constantly have to think about the long--indeed the very long--term goals," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "The only reason Harvard has been around for 360 years is that each generation has thought about the needs of future generations, not just about...