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Willey, who plays for Harvard’s polo team and is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said he first started considering a presidential candidacy about a week ago. Willey said he had settled on Caroline R. Williams ’10 as his running mate, but Williams said early this morning that she had not decided to enter the race...
Could such a "great drain" happen again, sucking liquidity out of the international financial system? Many experts would dismiss the idea as mere doom mongering. A full-scale war, they say, is one of those "10-sigma" (10 standard deviation) events that are so rare they lie outside the domain of risk management. Like an asteroid hitting the earth or a global influenza pandemic, a really big war belongs in the realm of uncertainty. You just can't price...
...esque dude is probably the last image that pops into your head. But while a beer-can speckled street of letter-adorned houses doesn’t exist round these parts, fraternities do lurk among Harvard’s masses. Three of them, in fact: Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), Sigma Chi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). As invitations to rush meetings begin to flood freshmen doorboxes, FM decided to check out these brothers from different mothers and their bi-annual ritual to attract new members, dubbed “rush.” According to AEPi’s president...
...billion in July--will expect big results, and Calhoun, who headed GE's $47 billion infrastructure unit, is unlikely to disappoint. At VNU, he's charged with turning around its Nielsen television-ratings system as well as the Hollywood Reporter and BillBoard magazine. Nothing a little Six Sigma...
Even advocates of the Army effort recognize the challenge. Employees at all levels must adopt a new work ethic, learn new systems and often work harder, with no immediate rewards. At Red River, Evans asked his 300 supervisors to volunteer for intensive Lean Six Sigma training but felt that not enough embraced it, so last month he required attendance. "Ninety-nine percent of my folks are onboard, but a few have said they will retire rather than adopt the concept of Lean Six Sigma," Evans says...