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...said that Soifer’s patterns stem from the fact that Harvard grads’ career decisions reflect broader market dynamics. “MBAs are like very well-paid sheep,” Gross said. “They move in herds...
...bonds. According to one study, 75% of the analysts covering Parmalat had a "buy" or "neutral" rating on the stock three months before it collapsed. Were these financial stalwarts victims of Parmalat's deceptions? Or, as the failed company's bankruptcy administrator Enrico Bondi alleges, were they more like well-paid enablers, looking the other way while helping Parmalat hobble toward ruin? That question will come to a head this week as Giuseppe Coscioni, the Parma judge overseeing the bankruptcy, must decide whether foreign banks claiming they are owed hundreds of millions will be included in the list of creditors...
...first for fun, later because the extra income helped--I allowed work to take over my life, spending nights and weekends working on books or TV films. I've spent nothing close to the time I wanted to with my two daughters. Granted, there should be some rule against well-paid journalists complaining about their lot in life, so let the record show that I love my work and that my children are charming, healthy teenagers. But the three-way balance among work, family and the nonjob, nonkid stuff that provides much of the spice of life--what ever happened...
...rosy picture of the resurgence of jobs, but too many of them are in the service sector and have poor pay. Newly created jobs will not be enough to counterbalance the large number of old ones that have taken a one-way trip to Asia. Unless the hemorrhage of well-paid work to foreign countries is stopped, the U.S. is heading toward Third World status. EDWARD J. MASON El Lago, Texas...
Some of that cost is justified by employees' improved productivity on the road. "I'm no longer a bottleneck [when traveling]," Gillespie says. Mallick says he doesn't even set his out-of-office message anymore for short trips. For well-paid knowledge workers, the cost of wi-fi is even more readily absorbed by the extra time they willingly spend on work at home. Because wi-fi makes it so easy to jump on the corporate network from your living room, more employees are working longer hours. Mallick, for instance, says that since he got wi-fi installed...