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...would not have thought it possible to write about the role of the President's spouse without mentioning the remarkable partnership forged between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. I guess that would have spoiled your simplified story line reporting an orderly progression of liberation from then to now. Dick Scott Stanford, California...
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...boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency to throw around phrases like "self-actualization," which will prove a little...
...most famous dropout, 42 people on the elite list actually did complete a Harvard degree. Of all the universities in the U.S., Harvard currently has the highest number of alumni recognized by Forbes magazine’s annual compilation of the wealthiest men and women in the nation. Stanford ranks second with 30 alumni, and the University of Pennsylvania ranks third with 24. Harvard Business School is the most well-represented division of the university, with 28 graduates on the list, including Fidelity President Abigail P. Johnson ’88 and New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...
...Theatre this weekend. Seven of the filmmakers will attend their screenings and answer questions about their work. The festival—presented in Boston by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and the Kennedy School’s New England Alumni Association—embarks each year from Stanford University, where it was founded 10 years ago by Jasmina Bojic, a filmmaker, critic, and professor at Stanford. “Documentary, in particular the images, can influence people to think about the world in different ways,” Bojic says. The festival, she adds, is meant...