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...This is silly. Talented executives are not that rare. The problem is that too many boards demand someone who has already been a CEO somewhere else, to avoid the criticism that would follow if a rookie CEO didn't work out. So we get a transient band of failed leaders like Michael Armstrong at AT&T and Joseph Nacchio, most recently at Qwest. Whenever possible, companies should promote from within, as at IBM and GE. One immediate improvement would be to index the price at which a CEO can exercise stock options so the options have value only when...
...indicate that Harvard doesn’t care about assault. Rather, with this change, the Faculty has (effectively) declared that, “We care so much about all kinds of assault and take it so seriously that we do not want an unqualified group of cranky deans and transient senior tutors muddling through this. When it comes to the less clear- cut cases that don’t immediately have corroborating evidence, we want students to take full advantage of the evidence gathering abilities and subpoena power of the Harvard University and Cambridge Police Departments and the Commonwealth...
...problem we have with transient tenants has to do with the student population—they can be rowdy, noisy and inconsiderate,” Mellone says. “We’d rather have people who are stake-holders in the community...
...institute a new Curriculum, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Intellectual Freedom and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Curriculum long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that students are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute...
Bronson’s work relies on perspective abnormalities that seem to openly assault the conventions of perception. This theme is continued in his most recent photographs, “Hotel Series.” Bronson’s nude photographs of himself in the transient context of a hotel indicate his struggle as he asserts himself in the face of tragedy, despite the continued haunting of time past...