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...risks to create exciting, popular products that bring in new revenues. Wagoner and chairman John F. Smith Jr. have carefully laid the groundwork for the kind of product-driven revolution Lutz has in mind. But he has to move fast, for the clock is ticking on his three-year contract...
Daly, who has a nonexclusive contract with MTV, came to NBC after a development deal with CBS fell apart when he failed to come up with a show that the network liked. He also turned down a prime-time variety show for ABC, feeling it was too similar to TRL. Believing that the standard monologue-sketch-interview format for late-night shows has grown stale, he says he accepted the three-year contract with the hope that, over time, he can come up with something different. "I look at it as a testing ground for the future of late night...
...their boss. For such a simple concept, it is suprisingly difficult for West to grasp. He is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to engage in scholarly research, so why is everyone outraged that he is being compelled to hold up his end of the contract...
...Katz Committees belief that unions will be able to set the standards for wages that can then be applied to outsourced workers is more than a little naive. Union workers will still be threatened by the presence of lower-paid contract workers, will continue to be bargained into lower wage brackets. Harvard cannot simply assume that unions, which the Katz Committee admits have weakened substantially in the last 10 years, will be able to effectively bargain under these conditions for appropriate wages. That is one of the reasons why Harvard must go beyond the committee recommendations and make...
Instead of an explicit ban on outsourcing, he said ensuring parity would take away the University’s incentive to contract out work as a cost-cutting mechanism while maintaining the positive aspects of outsourcing—“innovation, productivity and competition,” Katz said...