Word: welching
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...seems that you make good decisions. When evaluating a player or business, do you use gut instinct or cold hard facts? -Madison Welch, Arlington, Va.Cold hard facts. Even gut instinct is based on facts. It's like the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking-whatever facts you've ingested over the years, that's what you use. When people say, "My gut tells me," I ask, "Why?" And then you [can] combine that with stats. I'm always looking to get an edge...
...tell him how to reorganize the government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
...management consultantship. This is a belief that pragmatism and brainpower are superior to ideology in understanding the world, although this amounts to an ideology of its own. Romney went on and on about how much he loves "data." Give him a problem, give him the data, give him Jack Welch...
...varying the menu according to the availability of local ingredients. Despite its sequestered location at 56 JFK St., Picca said his restaurant has bookings with visitors from the Harvard Law and Business Schools. Oggi, which opened last Monday, moved from Boston’s Financial District because owner Steve Welch wanted to broaden his customer base. “While we were there it was usually only a two-hour window of business,” Welch said. “The same people came all at once during lunch, and no one in the morning or night...
...professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law School. Of the 12, three committee members have a background in the natural sciences—Naomi E. Pierce, the Hessel professor of biology; Stuart M. Shieber ’81, the Welch professor of computer science; and Hyman, a professor of neurobiology. The other committee members include Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Vincent Brown, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature Julie A. Buckler, choreographer Ann Carlson, Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies Mich?...