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...Mart is increasing this year, from 25 to 40, the number of stores in China. The company introduced the Walton Institute, a program to teach local managers the master's Three Basic Beliefs (respect for the individual, service to our customers, and to strive for excellence), the 10-Foot Rule (always greet a customer when she gets within 10 feet of you), the Sundown Rule (any employee or customer request must be addressed before sundown) and other cultural foundations...
...China's three main cities, according to a McKinsey study, increasing wealth will support 250 hypermarkets among the competing retailers. The company introduced the Walton Institute, a program to teach local managers the master's Three Basic Beliefs (respect for the individual, service to our customers, and to strive for excellence), the Sundown Rule (any employee or customer request must be addressed before sundown) and other cultural foundations. Walking into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Fort Worth, Texas, CEO Scott says he misses the old days a little bit; when Wal-Mart was an underdog, "you could really go after...
...legal way of promoting educational diversity because it did not “insulate the individual from comparison with all other candidates for the available seats.” Harvard’s admissions system, where every application is evaluated individually, is the ideal toward which other colleges should strive...
Drinking will remain a component of many college students’ experiences. Recognition of this fact should motivate the College to strive to reduce forms of unhealthy drinking, not to encourage them, as the keg ban does. As long as the ban exists, it will remain an ineffective measure that will hurt students, the College and the environment much more than it could ever help. A keg prohibition will never address the serious problem of binge drinking...
...student finishing high school in Scotland in 1978, Strive Masiyiwa was more concerned with liberating his native Zimbabwe than memorizing the monarchs of Britain. But when he traveled to Africa to join the freedom fighters, "one of the senior officers told me, 'Look, we're about to win anyway, and what we really need is people like you to help rebuild the country,'" Masiyiwa recalls. He returned to Britain to study engineering, and 24 years later leads a new African revolution--in telecommunications...