Word: succeeded
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...Parents seem to be acutely aware of what sort of environment their children are entering when they come to Harvard. Amid all the usual anxieties about their kids’ growing up and moving out—will they succeed, will they make friends, will the linens I ordered from Ikea be long enough, and so on—there’s an extra fear for some...
Running an airport shuttle service for hundreds of students is a complex, time-consuming and un-fun undertaking. Councilmembers, while generally conscientious, had little incentive to succeed at such a thankless task, especially outside of election season. As such, the UC’s airport shuttles had a tendency to leave students vexed, delayed, or even stranded...
...potential roadblock to a for-profit shuttle service (or several such services, in competition with each other) is the University’s sometimes adversarial approach to student businesses, most notably Unofficial Tours. To succeed, shuttle businesses might need certain privileges that a group like DormAid does not, such as permission to load and unload buses on campus. Because airport shuttles are a highly useful and cost-saving service for students, the University should do what it can to foster entrepreneurial success in this area, even if this means waiving its usual guidelines on student businesses. This would be especially...
...Davos: most executives said that both their customers and their suppliers had become more global over the past five years. Likewise, just over half said their employees now come from a wider array of countries than ever before. But asked how well prepared they thought their organizations were to succeed as global enterprises, 22% said they were either "extremely poorly" or "somewhat poorly" equipped. Strikingly, there were huge national differences, with British, French, German and Spanish executives showing the most confidence, Americans displaying average confidence, and Chinese and Japanese the least. Almost one in two of the Chinese...
...Schwartz said that “the design school is a difficult place for woman designers to succeed.” Getting things done requires “force,” but “it’s damn unladylike to have an opinion to have an ego, it’s antithetical to get things done,” she said. “I’m a bit of a dancing bear...