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...board of directors at Hewlett-Packard had admired many things about their star CEO. Asked to bring change to the doddering Silicon Valley giant, she pursued the task fearlessly, her efforts culminating in a controversial merger with Compaq. Asked to inject pizazz into HP's pedestrian marketing, she overhauled it right down to the corporate logo. Asked to create a strategic vision for a company that had none, she came up with dazzling insights into "transformational trends" and a hyperdigital future in which HP would serve consumers and corporations at every stage. But the board ultimately concluded that Fiorina...
...panel’s proposals are unlikely to be implemented at Harvard by the Task Force on Women Faculty appointed earlier this month by Summers...
...group’s chairwoman, Evelynn M. Hammonds, professor of the history of science and of African-American studies, said in an interview Friday that the proposals for a part-time track, tenure clock postponement, and multi-year leaves are all “outside the purview of the task force...
...Mitterrand mainstay, his party is now divided. And the world is too interconnected, the state's power too constrained by the market, for any French president to adopt quite the same air of sovereignty Mitterrand made his own. He would be delighted that untangling his legacy will be a task for generations...
...challenging task of guarding Forte will be handed to Norman—Harvard’s answer to the athleticism of Brown’s best player. Forte, whose older brother Joseph starred at North Carolina before playing briefly in the NBA, is coming off a career-high 36-point performance last weekend in the Bears’ loss to Cornell. The next night against Columbia, he hit the game-winning jumper with 3.5 seconds left, earning him Ivy League Player of the Week honors...