Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...John H. McArthur, assistant dean of the Business School, moved one rung up the ladder to replace Lawrence E. Fouraker, Baker Professor of Business Administration, as dean of the B-School...
Corporations, however, have a host of signs to separate the wheat from the chaff among those climbing the corporate ladder. Bank of America employees, for example, know that they have made it when they are given stationery with the bank's logo in gold rather than black ink. One of the most elaborate status classifications is at Ford, where employees are graded on a scale of 1 (clerks and secretaries) to 27 (chairman of the board). Grade 9, the lowest level of executive, carries the right to an outside parking place, while Grade 13 brings a larger office, windows...
Like employees elsewhere, most of those who enroll at the Sun Institute for the Sun Co. course called Write Up the Ladder suffer from lack of confidence about writing basic memos and letters. "They hate to be straightforward or direct," says George Murphy, one of the Villanova University English professors who handle the course. Says Bonnie Perry, a Sun education director: "Their idea of what constitutes good writing is something that is excessively pompous and stilted. They go on and on, never getting to the point...
...women enter "the business" of their own free will, one must ask what happens to them after that. Suppose a woman has agreed to pose for a picture in which she will be bound up. Once there, when she has been strapped, spread-eagled to a table or a ladder or a cross, what happens? She certainly has no say in the matter, and no lawyer or contract could help her at that point...
...root of the matter is the importance of winning--or at least, staying competitive. Obviously, Harvard has made a decision to grapple with the has made a decision to grapple with the complexities and problems associated with recruiting, rather than risk slipping further down the Ivy athletic ladder...