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...that single moment of stillness—standing there as the world races by—Barcelona has become a part of me, burrowed deep down inside. And I doubt it will ever leave. —Molly M. Strauss '11, a Crimson editorial editor, is a resident of Winthrop House...
...Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...could be channeled toward improving labor conditions. "If factories are getting monitored on average 25 times a year, that's every two weeks you have to check your records and talk to workers," says Michael Kobori, head of supply chain social and environmental sustainability at U.S. garment manufacturer Levi Strauss. "It's no wonder management is so occupied with these monitors that they have no time to make improvements...
...most progressive companies on labor practices, took steps to curb what it saw as counterproductive auditing. In a daring move, it revealed its manufacturing sites - long seen as proprietary information - and suggested that companies manufacturing products in these same places collaborate on factory monitoring. Six months later Levi Strauss followed, and today is working with 15 other firms in 130 factories. Resources that once went to monitoring are now used on training overseas management, says Kobori, helping to create an environment in which factories have a bigger stake in how they are run. Even before that, Levi Strauss was moving...
...important for the future,” Venky said. “Things like computer science are completely changing how we live and work and Harvard should be perceived as being a leader in it.”—Christian B. Flow, Maxwell L. Child, Nathan C. Strauss, and Clifford M. Marks contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...