Interventions
by Noam Chomsky
Latinos? Of course there are. There may even be a wonderfully articulate disabled Latina lesbian conservative who is undiscovered because she is outside the comfortable old-boy network. But there probably aren’t two. It’s not a question of effort, it’s mathematics. Each variable added to the equation subverts efforts to
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by Paul Theroux · 224pp · 63,405 words
be rectified," Hoyt said. "Hong Kong was doing perfectly well as a British colony," Bunt said. "Sure. No elections. No democracy. The old school tie, old boy network," Hoyt said. "Give me a break." Bunt said, "There was freedom here. Granted, it was a free-for-all, survival of the fittest, but it
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by Dambisa Moyo · 3 May 2021 · 272pp · 76,154 words
to strive to stay in the workforce come what may—do resonate with many. The best corporations are constantly exploring innovative ways to circumvent the old boy network by remaking interview and recruitment processes to be more gender-neutral. For example, Harvard’s Iris Bohnet has written about the potential of blind interviews
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis · 1 Jan 2003 · 316pp · 105,384 words
big league front offices and it caught Paul DePodesta’s eye. And so, surely for the first time since the dead ball era, the Harvard Old Boys’ network came to baseball. Paul himself sat at the desk on the other end of the room. I ask them if it ever troubled them to
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by Larry Bossidy · 10 Nov 2009 · 244pp · 76,192 words
well understood. “There were no negative consequences for poor performance,” recalled one executive. “Not only no consequences, but if you were part of the good old boy network, there really wasn’t accountability for negative behavior toward the company.” Added another, “It was always somebody else’s problem.” Brown instituted a system that
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by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
. Each knows each other and respects each other’s sphere of influence and authority of decision making. 116 ECONOMISTS AND THE POWERFUL For France, where old boys’ networks based on elite academic institutions are particularly important, Nguyen-Dang (2008) found that the firm performs worse if the CEO and at least one board
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by William Davies · 28 Sep 2020 · 210pp · 65,833 words
has been slowly unravelling for three decades. The year of the ‘big bang’ was 1986, when the City of London was dramatically deregulated, disrupting the old-boy networks of Britain’s business classes with the shock of a new, aggressive style of international finance. The subsequent explosion of wealth opened up a cultural
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by Robert Scheer · 14 Apr 2010 · 257pp · 64,763 words
Law Review, a prestigious honor for which she was nationally recognized. To understand how Born years later could go toe-to-toe with the intimidating old boys’ network of Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers, one must realize that she had been doing that sort of thing her entire life. She became an attorney at
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by Hubert Joly · 14 Jun 2021 · 265pp · 75,202 words
male. Women made up fewer than one in five store managers, for instance, and all territory managers were men. The field had traditionally been an old boys’ network, which felt uncomfortable for many women. Few managerial positions were held by people of color, particularly African Americans. The racial imbalance partly reflected local demographics
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of these events were taking place. The United States was also situated far away from Europe's two thousand years of shared history and the old-boy network that dominated its financial institutions. On top of all that, American society was more open and fluid than European society, the forces of democracy and
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