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...first, William Swanson tried to shrug off the discovery that 16 of the rules in his handy and much acclaimed booklet Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management had been ripped off from an obscure engineering work published more than 60 years ago. Then, when it turned out that other rules had been lifted from the precepts of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and humorist Dave Barry, the episode became a full-blown public relations disaster for the CEO of Raytheon, a defense contractor based in Waltham, Mass., that has 80,000 employees and more than $22 billion in annual sales...
Foster's tower, his first sizable project in the U.S., rises from within a six-story brown masonry base that dates from the 1920s. That's when news paper baron William Randolph Hearst commissioned the architect and stage designer Joseph Urban to produce a low-rise headquarters for Hearst's growing empire. The intention was that a taller addition would be constructed later, but the Depression intervened. For nearly eight decades, the Deco-flavored base stood alone. In the late 1990s the Hearst Corp. decided to keep the old building but to hollow it out and erect a new tower...
...William C. Kirby released his last annual letter to colleagues on Friday—a 14,000-word missive that trumpets the growth of the Faculty, the construction of new buildings, and a proposed choice-based model of general education as the legacies of Kirby’s four-year tenure at the helm of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...syllabi, and the eight lines in the student handbook are better than nothing, Harvard lacks a cohesive code of honor, which would set a universal precedent of integrity both inside and outside of the classroom.Dating from the institution of the first collegiate honor code at the College of William and Mary in 1779, honor codes have been a defining attribute of many of America’s most reputable institutions. Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Williams College, and the University of Virginia all have explicitly defined honor codes in either an academic or general setting. Stanford, for instance, has an Honor Code...
Outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby released his last annual letter to colleagues today, saying that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will forge ahead with the physical and professorial expansion that is pushing the school toward a $70 million budget deficit...