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...hand, they wanted to have the No Layoffs Campaign separate from the Socialist Alternative, but by the same token, they wanted to control it,” he says. “They wanted to be identified as the group who originated the No Layoffs Campaign but at the same time they also wanted to say that it was a coalition...
Harvard certainly owes its women a strong institutional commitment to gender equality, but the Women’s Center as a mere token gesture hardly constitutes this kind of commitment. While proponents’ goals merit support, the Women’s Center does...
...Hilles; yet, the idea struck a discordant note with some and incited knee-jerk criticisms from students who didn’t know what it was about. The plan’s antagonists were quick to condemn the center as just some half-baked ultra-feminist plot or a token effort to recognize women. Students who oppose the proposal, however, need to do some serious reassessment...
...center at Harvard would not solve every problem facing women on campus. But just because a women’s center alone won’t stop sexual assaults, or provide the equivalent of male final clubs, doesn’t make it a “token effort.” The Women’s Center is meant to help students and organizations find each other and the resources they need—objectives that it can achieve with proper support and funding from the administration. Indicting the center for failing to do something it doesn?...
...same token, the management skills needed to restore a crisis-ridden company to profitability may not be the same as those required for years of sustainable growth. "CEOs don't singlehandedly turn around a large organization," says Paul Coombes, a director of corporate governance at McKinsey & Co. "The problem is that strategies change at a fast rate and need to keep adapting quickly, but organizational changes of a lasting sort require a great deal of patience." That may be. But at least the new boys know where they stand: if they mess up, they...