Word: worked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Only someone who knows the current status of the Council and the College can effectively work to make the changes that everyone believes are so important," he wrote in an e-mail message...
...Rawlins, vice-president in 1996-97 and president in 1997-98, furthered Hyman's work to make the council more activist. During her time in student government, the council spoke out on same-sex commitment ceremonies in Memorial Church and lack of women and minorities in the faculty. One major thing she did gain from her experiences was a sense of connections: "That sense of direct accountability and the excitement that came with moving toward our common goals continues to inspire me." Rawlins currently works for a new family foundation in Boston...
...arrive at the hotel without incident. Since consultants do much of their work on the road, it is important for the accommodations to be tolerable, and this place is much more than that. Billing itself as a "small luxury inn" the hotel of the PRTM team is fully equipped: well-stocked mini-bar, extensive room service menu, Martha Stewart Living on the coffee table and a phone next to the toilet. But the team doesn't have time to enjoy these amenities tonight--they have an early start tomorrow morning...
...client is a manufacturer of the old school, started over 90 years ago by a lone, hard-working visionary selling products he designed himself. The son of the founder--feisty at 83--still runs the company and eats in the cafeteria with everybody else. The client enjoys a very strong position in the market for their main products, but recognizes a need to focus on high-tec products to defend their market position. They have brought in the PRTM, consultants to technology industry, to find a way for the client to translate its considerable strength into new, high tech businesses...
...Consultants frequently refer to a person's "skill set," that is, a rapidly evolving set of abilities that allow people like "Powerhouse" Wang to address a variety of challenges. The chance to expand this "skill set" is supposed to be one of the most attractive aspects of working in consulting right out of college. "Consultants learn as much in their first two years of work as they would in the first four years of any other job," Tom explains. Wang likens it to "a mathematical problem, when you define the boundaries first and then think creatively within those boundaries...