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...means everyone. On that same day in mid-November, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics company invited all of its 125,000 workers worldwide to stop work and instead think about simplifying it. (The brightest ideas would be shared company-wide.) Dubbed "Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips...
...similar University-wide committee, with a $50 million grant, now seeks to foster centralization for science and engineering. And current University President Drew G. Faust announced last fall that Harvard’s social science departments would get a dedicated committee of their...
...person, place, or thing is safe from the Pudding’s comedic venom. The jokes come fast and furious thanks to writers W. Brian C. Polk ’09 and Kathleen H. Chen ’09. “Fable Attraction” boasts a wide array of onstage, backstage, and musical talent. More and more characters enter the mix. These include Pete O’Felia (Mac H. Bartels ’09), a take on the Pied Piper; Oldielocks (Clifford N. Murray ’10), a combination of the old and apparently Jewish woman...
...Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama is a unique venue—circular and warm, it was built in the late 19th century to house a 450-foot wide and 50-foot tall painting of the battle of Gettysburg. It does seem appropriate, then, that it should host a show that comments on another war. But maybe not this one.“The Divine Reality Comedy,” performed at the Cyclorama from Feb. 4 to 10, is a complex production by the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater, featuring both masked and unmasked actors, elaborate...
...years. As China ramps up its military spending, India's arms budget is likely to keep growing as well, not least because the two Asian goliaths share a disputed border and their relations remain tense. "As we look at India's commitment to modernizing its forces we see a wide range of opportunities," says Lee Whitney, Lockheed Martin's Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Communications. "[The C-130J] gets us off to a good beginning...