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Evans is the tip of the spear on what may be the most ambitious business effort in the 231-year history of the U.S. Army: an attempt to adopt a management theory, Lean Six Sigma, across the entire service. More comprehensive than the attempt in the 1960s by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to introduce the highly quantitative "system analysis" to the Pentagon, this is an enormous experiment: the Army has an annual budget of $160 billion, with 1.1 million men and women in uniform, and it employs an additional 230,000 civilians. "This is the largest deployment of management science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lean and Mean | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon can boast of the highest GPA of any SAE chapter in the “province.” The province comprises the 11 SAE chapters in the Northeast area. Harvard SAE has an aggregated GPA of 3.48, beating other Ivy League schools such as Yale and Dartmouth. Dartmouth came in second with an average 3.40 GPA. Yale did not make the top three. The president of Harvard SAE, Nicolas A. Yannuzzi ’07, said he was thrilled to be the leader of the smartest SAE chapter in the region, but stressed...

Author: By Magnus Grimeland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Chapter Tops Frat GPA | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday. Teams were composed primarily of eight to 15 people and many were organized by sororities, fraternities, blocking groups, and groups of friends. “It’s nice to see all of our hard work validated,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon Philanthropy Chair Justin A. Monticello ’09 said. He added that his fraternity placed eighth in the Boston area, raising more than $3,400. Harvard organized the event with Boston College and Boston University and put forth 30 of the 120 teams. MIT, Simmons, Emerson...

Author: By Nadia A Gaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Relay Race Helps Profs Fight Cancer | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...free chicken wings you could eat, Pub Night was sparsely populated. The VH1 crowd (read: seniors) got their cards stamped and sipped Smirnoff Ice. Post-crumping/crunking/whatever you kids are calling it these days, the hip-hop crew rubbed up against each other at the Expressions party in Currier. Sigma Chi’s Hammed in Hawaii boasted alcohol-soaked fruit and alcohol-themed decorations. The annual Boy Band Party in Adams was a supremely good time. How often do you get the chance to sweatily headbang to *NSync and Kelly Clarkson (and not just alone in your room)? SATURDAY...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Party Reporter | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...Action Committee of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Xi Tau Chapter, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and Harvard Students of Color Against AIDS (SOCAA) co-sponsored the two-hour long event, entitled “Inspiring Action through Awareness...

Author: By Kimberly D. Williams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Groups Urge More AIDS Advocacy | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

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