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Anyone who scoffs at the idea of the world needing good and considers it to be a naïve conviction of idealists should take a closer look at our world. Twenty-three days ago, a car bombing in Tal Afar, Iraq killed 152 people. Last October, a man took eleven girls hostage in an Amish school in Pennsylvania and executed five before taking his own life. The examples are countless. People are not good to each other. Five thousand years of violence have shown the consequences when people fail to be good to each other...
...Iraqi forces in stemming sectarian violence. Since the security crackdown began seven weeks ago in Baghdad, executions in the capital have gone down from some 40 a day to less than 10, according to Iraqi police. But truck bombs in a Shi'ite section of the northern city of Tal Afar earlier in the week sparked a gruesome round of reprisals that saw local police officers executing some 70 Sunnis men in the town. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said in a statement Friday that the recent spike in bombings is part...
Similarly opportunistic, some Hong Kong--based manufacturers are now remaking themselves by providing supply-chain-management to big customers. TAL Apparel, which makes 1 out of every 7 dress shirts sold in the U.S. at its factories in Asia and North America, nimbly adjusts production for major customers like JCPenney based on weekly sales results. In a practice linked to the "fast fashion" trend, retailers can send orders to TAL each week. TAL then ships out the product in four days or less--emergency orders can be rushed through in a mere four hours. TAL sorts the goods into boxes...
...when you’re someone like me, who takes just about any study that comes her way, you have to wonder what impact your contributions will have on future generations of Tal Ben-Shahars and HBS-educated capitalists. Will my interactions with other participants lead...
...down version of a discipline whose department you barely knew existed: linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, public health, et al. Readings can range from dull-as-dust political science graphs to fascinating social theory that will change the way you look at life. Take a cue from uber-popular psychology professor Tal Ben-Shahar and look at this Core from a positive perspective: you get to gab about how society works and, worst case scenario, you’re stuck in a boring but easy class. Could be worse. (Ahem…Moral Reasoning.)For the guttiest gut this side of Nickelodeon?...