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...Claws In The Contract It was a bad week for fat cats as U.K. investors rejected an executive pay package for the first time, with 51% voting against a proposed contract for GlaxoSmithKline CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier...
...overseen Harvard’s response to an $102 million federal lawsuit alleging that the University and two of its affiliates violated the terms of a government contract to advise Russia on its transition to capitalism...
GESO also lost because unionization is not the answer for graduate students at Yale. Yale students receive a very competitive stipend and benefits package. Graduate stipends are market-driven, and locking them in at a certain level with a collectively bargained contract would prevent the university from being able to compete with other top-tier schools in attracting the best graduate students. Yale has a functioning, effective Graduate Student Assembly composed of representatives from every graduate department. These students have the ear of the dean, sit on dozens of university committees, and meet annually with the Board of Trustees...
...first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...
According to the proposal, Ledlie has already lined up a contract for the maintenance of Harvard University Police Department’s bicycle fleet, and has met with other bike entrepreneurs—including former Harvard Student Agencies General Manager and former owner of the Bike Exchange Richard Olken—to learn the business...