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Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

even a trip to Clinton, Iowa, was exciting to me. There was the lure of exploring a new place, going someplace I'd never been before. After those early years of 100-hour workweeks and countless trips to the Clintons of the world, travel -... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday

employees felt about the program and how they were using it. “We’ve never seen our employees answer a survey so fast. Usually it takes some follow-up, but we had results within 15 minutes,” observes Carbonell. On a scale of 1 to 10, the four-day View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business

a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2009
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From Bytes to Bites

keeping workweek hours to reasonable levels. While she’s put in long hours in recent months, Thomas has tried to maintain that balance in her own life, having recently completed a six-year board term for Meals On Wheels of San Francisco.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson

things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details

04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work

the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

director at Lovejoy Advisors, shared her groundbreaking experience at McKinsey & Co., where she successfully proposed a four-day workweek at 80 percent pay after having her son. “It worked because I was good at what I do,” she said. Ten... View Details

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The Future of Work

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The Imposter Among Us