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...need a summer job. All you need is a soundbyte. You, however, deserve the real deal. I am essentially at the whim of my supervisor. For example, she told me that my first week should be spent getting to know all the ins and outs of the age-old online supermarket industry. On Monday, I toured the warehouse. Tuesday, I pack products in the dry goods section. Wednesday, packing in the fresh foods section. Thursday I tackle frozen goods. Friday I help deliver. (I guess that Friday will be really casual...
...lost at some point during the hour-long commute (in buses that are not air conditioned). Despite leaving a half hour early, I arrive 30 minutes late and sweaty. Huffing up the stairs I promise never to complain about the Leverett-Science Center walk again. I find my supervisor who obligingly shows me to everyone who works at the office. I learn zero names. After touring the various rooms she shows me "my computer." Visions of e-mail dance through my head. I start to hope. Two minutes after I sit down, she sends me downstairs to the dry goods...
Aside from isolated incidents, administrators say that SSI guards have responded appropriately to unexpected situations, such as a gas line break in Adams House this April. The SSI supervisor on duty gathered guards with knowledge of Adams House and brought them to the building, according to Robert Kotowski, a HUPD sergeant...
...Back then, nobody would talk," says Rob Langford, a retired FBI supervisor. "You'd interview people, and they wouldn't want to testify. With the climate being different now, they are willing to cooperate." In the '70s, Alabama attorney general Bill Baxley successfully prosecuted "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. But after Baxley left office, the case went mostly dormant and was not reopened until 1995. Langford, assigned to Alabama, met with local black leaders who were tired of delays. Says he: "What it took was a commitment to stick...
Michael J. Roberts, executive director of entrepreneurial studies at HBS and the contest's faculty supervisor, said the contest was run by HBS students but judged by a number of entrepreneurs from around the country, some of whom are HBS graduates...