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Women In Trucking Launches Driver Mentoring Program
Thursday August 12, 2021 | Labour/HR/Driver Shortage
Women In Trucking's new mentorship program will attempt to match women drivers new to the industry with experienced women leaders.
Called LeadHERalliance Mentoring, WIT's program will match women drivers new to the industry with experienced women leaders who have achieved long-term successful careers as professional drivers.
With WIT's membership of approximately 6,000 members predominantly throughout the United States and Canada, this mentoring program will provide women drivers access to the knowledge, experience and support of seasoned drivers, according to Debbie Sparks, vice president of WIT.
"Part of the mission of WIT is to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry and minimize obstacles they face," Sparks said in a press release. "We believe the connections and mentoring created through this support system will make a significant difference in the lives of entry-level drivers. Our goal is to decrease the percentage of drivers who leave our industry within their first 12 months. This program will give the new women driver much-needed support as they navigate this complex industry."
LeadHERtrucking will provide a structured 10-month mentorship program, with organized monthly virtual meetings between a mentee and her mentor, as well as offering a curated list of topics relevant to these women, presented each month by women who are industry experts.
Sessions will focus on mental health and well-being, leadership, resilience, financial independence, as well as addressing specific and unique challenges of being a women on the road, according to Cynthia O'Neill, founder of LeadHERalliance Mentoring.
At the completion of the program, each woman becomes a lifetime member of the LeadHERnetwork, with access to hundreds of women around the global with whom they can reach out for continued support and guidance.
"Providing a female mentor to be a role model and a support for new female drivers will boost their resilience, confidence, and courage to break into and succeed in a role that hasn't always been welcoming to women," O'Neill said. "Women are making a significant positive difference in the trucking industry every day."
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Obama Order May Give DACA Parents Some Relief
Insiders say the president will make a primetime announcement on Thursday
Aura Bogado Nov 19, 2014 2:15PM ET
President Obama at the G20 meeting in Australia on November 15, 2014 None Credit: Steve Christo/G20 Australia via Getty Images
President Obama will make his much-awaited announcement to take executive action on immigration Thursday, according to two Congressional aides speaking under the condition of anonymity. The aides say that he'll head to Las Vegas on Friday. He'll present more details of the order at Del Sol High School in front of an audience of immigrants and their advocates.
This won't be the first time Obama addresses immigration at Del Sol High School. The president was there nearly two years ago outlining another reform plan. He promised then that he would introduce his own legislation if Congress didn't move quickly. The House did introduce and pass a bill–which eventually died in the Senate in 2013.
The president's plan may expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, by widening age requirements for eligibility. Although DACA isn't a path to citizenship, it protects immigrants from deportation for two years at a time and it provides work permits for that time. Obama may also outline a plan to extend deportation relief to the parents of children who are U.S. citizens or Green Card holders. It's unclear whether the parents of DACA recipients will be eligible. According to one immigration advocate who spoke on condition of anonymity, DACA recipient Astrid Silva and her father have been invited to attend Obama's primetime address on Thursday, a signal that deferred action may be cover parents. The president is also expected to expand visas for high-skill tech workers and increase security along the southern border. Obama's plan is expected to benefit up to five million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
The president's plan will likely fall far short of what immigrant advocates have been demanding. In a statement, National Day Laborer Organizing Network head Pablo Alvarado said, "100% of immigrants deserve equality, and regardless of what the President says or when he says it, we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to defend and advance our rights."
But Obama's plan is already being dogged by Republicans. According to Reuters, House speaker John Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, has resorted to implying that Obama is governing as a reigning monarch: "If 'Emperor Obama,'" said Steel, "ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue and many others."
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Through the years, Moz has honed their algorithm(s); but since it is an algorithm, there are certain areas of visibility which will be harder or easier to acquire. For example, if you've got a low Moz score of between 20 and 30, you'll have an easier time getting a better score than if you're around 70 or 80. Most sites average between 40 and 50. Your goal is to, at the very least, get above a score of 60.
What determines score is a suite of defining characteristics, the most important of which are linking root domains, MozRank, MozTrust, quality content, social signals, and search engine friendliness.
Linking root domains basically means you've got a lot of sites who have backlinks to yours—the more, the better. MozRank determines just how strong said external links are. MozTrust defines the quality of those external links.
Quality content is what it sounds like: content that is qualitative; more on that shortly. Social signals are shares, likes, and commentary pertaining to your content in a positive way. Lastly, search engine friendliness specifically refers to SEO, and how that affects your site's visibility. Basically, all of these factors fall under the shadow of SEO.
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Now where the "graded" or "slanted" quality of Moz comes is in terms of trending ideology. Because of the social component defining a site's popularity, your score will be likely to fluctuate based on the values your company espouses. This isn't something that is necessarily "fair". It is directed by the market.
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Slow Wonder
Letters on Imagination and Education
Peter O'Connor, Claudia Rozas Gómez
Published online: 23 September 2022
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Slow wonder bears witness to the possibilities of the imagination. In a series of letters the authors playfully imagine alternatives to current orthodoxies that privilege technocratic approaches to education that have strangled discussion about what it might mean to make education good and right, or even beautiful. The authors position the imagination as a powerful site of resistance within education and academic life. They unpack their philosophical positionings through vignettes of their teaching practice, poetry written as reflective musings and discursive theoretical pieces, including letters they have written to others. They attempt to marry the poetic and the academic, the rational and the affective, to model a slow approach to wondering about the joy, beauty and possibilities of life. In this spirit, they contemplate new ways to think and live in education.
14 - The Sublime and Wonder
from Part III - Engagements
By Emily Brady
Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, University of Toronto, Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge
Book: The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
Print publication: 04 August 2022, pp 217-230
The concepts of the sublime and wonder have a long and significant history in philosophy, literature and the arts, religion, and the history of science. These concepts identify kinds of human attitudes and responses to the natural world and to cultural practices and artifacts. This chapter will focus on the contemporary relevance of the sublime and wonder to questions and issues within the context of nature, environment, aesthetics, and religion. I begin with a brief, recent history of sublimity before examining the contemporary sublime in relation to environmental thought and "other-regarding attitudes" toward nature. I then consider recent cross-disciplinary discussions of the varieties of wonder and show how this attitude invites receptivity in relation to the more-than-human world. In the concluding section, I offer a comparison of the sublime and wonder to show, further, the different ways in which they may support sympathetic, ethical attitudes toward nature.
8 - The City of God XIX–XXII
Mary M. Keys, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book: Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's <i>City of God</i>
Print publication: 23 June 2022, pp 201-235
Chapter 8 treats books XIX–XXII, the final segment of The City of God, focusing on the last end or summum bonum. In these key books, the antidote to pride, flowing from humility, emerges in Augustine's narrative as "participation" – free and willing partaking by creatures in God's being, wisdom, and love. Crucial to this participation, and the genuine community or res publica it makes possible, are recognition of humanity's creaturely status and the rejection of the pull toward autarchy or a false sense of self-sufficiency.
Chapter 4 - Pilgrim
Roanne Kantor, Stanford University, California
Book: South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Published online: 17 February 2022
Print publication: 24 February 2022, pp 113-143
This chapter considers the "globalization" of magical realism in the 1980s and its relationship to the consolidation of postcolonial literary studies in the same moment. Even as Latin America was being progressively marginalized in favor of taxonomic accounts of magical realism as a signature postcolonial style, Salman Rushdie and other South Asian authors became "pilgrims." They use textual journeys to Latin America to declare the centrality of that tradition to their own forays into literary magic. Through references to Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and others, Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghose pose Latin America as a funhouse mirror that reflects back a hyperbolically distorted but ultimately referential image of postcolonial political life. Ghose is joined by Anita Desai in his approach to Latin America as a concave mirror, one that allows inverting the implied political meaning of institutional affiliation in "America" by redirecting their attachment southward. Finally, Sunny Singh interrogates the postcolonial critical desire for magical realism to act as a transparent window onto traditions of home, framing it instead as a looking glass – both opposite and identical.
12 - Travel Writing
from Part II - Prose Genres
By Roslyn Jolly
Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
Book: The Cambridge Companion to Prose
Published online: 05 November 2021
Print publication: 18 November 2021, pp 196-213
Roslyn Jolly's chapter discusses the particular burden carried by the prose of the travel writer. Travel writing faces such potentially opposing tasks as to render a foreign scene strange and exotic while bestowing it with an air of authenticity and verisimilitude, and in doing so makes it appeal to the senses and exercises telling control or choice of narrative perspective. These various pressures and strategies appear fairly consistently throughout the long history of travel writing, which takes in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Orwell and Jonathan Raban. They also cross into prose fiction, where it is influenced by the travel memoir or tourist guide.
1 - Beginning with Thauma
Jessica Lightfoot, University of Birmingham
Book: Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
Print publication: 16 September 2021, pp 1-16
This introductory chapter examines the scope and range of wonder and the marvellous between Homer and the Hellenistic period, explores the significance of ancient conceptions of wonder in the modern literary critical tradition and outlines this book's theoretical underpinnings and the scope and content of the subsequent chapters.
4 - The Sound of Thauma: Music and the Marvellous
Print publication: 16 September 2021, pp 80-106
This chapter examines the significance of wonder in ancient conceptions of music, choral song and dance. The essential role of wonder in ancient religious thought as an effect which often accompanies epiphanic encounters between gods and humans and which naturally arises within the ritual space created by song performance is explored. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is examined as a case study in which the rich relationship between music, semata (signs) and thauma in the Greek imagination is particularly evident. This chapter also discusses the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, the Odyssey and the story of Arion in Herodotus' Histories.
Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
Jessica Lightfoot
Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what philosophy and literature are and do. She also argues that it became a means of expressing the manner in which the realms of the human and the divine interrelate with one another; and that it was central to the articulation of the ways in which the relationships between self and other, near and far, and familiar and unfamiliar were conceived. The book provides a much-needed starting point for re-assessments of the impact of wonder as a literary critical and cultural concept both in antiquity and in later periods. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
3 - Defying a Defining Witness: the Bronze Horseman and the Buildings (De Aedificiis) of Prokopios
Elena N. Boeck, DePaul University, Chicago
Book: The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Print publication: 29 April 2021, pp 72-97
The defining verbal representation of Justinian's bronze horseman was created by Prokopios. His Buildings (I.ii, I.x.5) is a multivalent text, which deserves both a greater consideration and a historiographic rehabilitation. While on the surface Buildings appears to flatter the emperor, I argue that the deeper narrative reveals strong elements of figured speech and safe criticism. Buildings is ekphrastic in certain aspects of form, but not in overall substance. Formal conformity with the genre constitutes a veil for criticism. Focusing on a close analysis of his representation of Justinian's equestrian monument, I argue that Prokopios indicts Justinian on the charges of gigantomania and obliteration of the past. The bronze horseman features twice in Buildings – within the otherwise coherent cluster of Justinian's church-building, and as the headlining sculpture in the section dedicated to Constantinople's non-ecclesiastical monuments. This exceptional return to the bronze horseman is thus both notable and deliberate. The equestrian monument is the only sculptural monument of Buildings that merited a substantive description beyond a list-like entry.
5 - The Play at the End of the World
By Una Chaudhuri, Joshua Williams
Edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, University of Oxford
Book: The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
Published online: 20 January 2021
Print publication: 03 December 2020, pp 70-84
Chapter 5: This chapter situates the American artist Deke Weaver's long-term project The Unreliable Bestiary within the ecological politics of the Anthropocene. Weaver aims to create a performance for every letter of the English alphabet, with each letter representing an endangered species or threatened habitat. The performances he has made to date – Monkey (2009), Elephant (2010), Wolf (2013), Bear (2016–17), and Tiger (2019) – address the looming threat of the sixth great extinction by pairing the most fantastic flights of the animalized imagination with the most astonishing facts discovered by animal science. Reactivating and reconfiguring the medieval bestiary in this way allows Weaver to braid together an epistemology derived from the 'squishy science' of performance with an affect he calls 'plain old wonder', producing a new theatrical grammar for being in and with extinction and a new ethical framework for encountering our remaining animal others.
12 - The Politics of Wonder
from Part I - Historical Antecedents and Philosophical Debates
By Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Edited by Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Siddiqur Osmani, Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach
Nussbaum's capabilities approach harks back to ancient Greek phūsis at the origin of the philosophical tradition, but it is a form of environmental humanism developing Enlightenment values. This complexity is not without its tensions. Using the contradictions I find contained in Nussbaum's commitment to wonder as a universally important ethical experience, I push her extension of moral regard for other species farther than it can currently go. Nussbaum has transformed the Enlightenment concept of dignity to include other forms of life. Her considered position is a form of biocentric individualism. Biocentric individualism is the view that individual lives as such have dignity. However, I will show that her outlook, grounded in wonder, presents insurmountable obstacles to her biocentric individualism. I resolve these by suggesting that moral individualism ought to be jettisoned when species are not morally individualized in their form of life. I motivate this argument through the risk of a mass extinction cascade, which characterizes our planetary ecological situation and poses a threat both to human development and the moral and ethical commitments of the capabilities approach. I propose one general criterion for reasonable institutions regarding this risk, surrounding it with a call for environmental humanism in political culture.
Chapter 22 - Wonder
from Part II - Emotions
By Tom Bishop
Edited by Katharine A. Craik, Oxford Brookes University
Book: Shakespeare and Emotion
Wonder is a key emotion to Shakespeare's work as a whole, from first to last. Three principal sites of the evocation of wonder are discussed: in narrative, in character, and in language. Discussion of the first focuses on Shakespeare's career-long interest in romance narratives of marvel, drawing on both ancient and popular traditions. These traditions inform Shakespeare's writing from The Comedy of Errors through the last plays. In them marvellous events – especially involving recoveries and reunions – reveal a world unexpected in its amplitude, larger than human knowledge can easily understand. Audiences are encouraged to share this perception of the world-opening possibilities of poetry. Wonder experienced by characters provides an opportunity for audiences to examine closely the mechanics of the affect, and the attempts of persons to negotiate and emerge from it into knowledge. Wonder in language touches on Shakespeare's characteristic extremity of rhetorical style, particularly his use of figures such as paradox, hyperbole, and catachresis. Altogether, this commitment to wonder reveals Shakespeare as a poet of an unclosed universe – one ever rich in possibility and the unexpected.
6 - Imagination in Classical India: A Short Introduction
from Part I - Theoretical Perspectives on the Imagination
By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Edited by Anna Abraham, University of Georgia
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 80-93
This essay is an outline of some of the key terms in the classical Sanskrit tradition that can be translated as "imagination." This enables us to map a very different yet recognizable terrain for our understanding of the concept. The essay is in four parts. The first looks at the articulation of ideas recognizably centred on imagination in the performative aspects of early or Vedic texts (1500–300 BCE). The second presents various terms that approach different aspects of "imagination," and looks at some of the genres within which these terms were thematized. The third section surveys some influential contemplative practices in which imagination was carefully explored as a disciplined way of cultivating and expanding awareness. The fourth section very briefly considers the philosophical question of the cognitive status of imagination at least in aesthetic production. The conclusion opens up discussion about how this tradition of thematizing imagination may enrich the contemporary study of imagination, whose philosophical roots lie in the Western tradition.
Lara Harb, Princeton University, New Jersey
Book: Arabic Poetics
Print publication: 14 May 2020, pp 1-24
The Introduction presents the argument that aesthetic judgment in classical Arabic literary theory came to depend on the ability of poetry or eloquent speech to produce an experience of wonder in the listener. This experience of wonder is not merely a reaction of amazement and bedazzlement, but it also entails a process of discovery. After presenting an account of the nature of classical Arabic literary theory, its various approaches to literary assessment, its topics and historical development, the Introduction highlights that the main aspects of literary expression Arabic criticism was concerned with lay in rhetorical figures (badīʿ), simile (tashbīh), figurative speech (majāz), metaphor (istiʿāra), metonymy (kināya), and sentence construction (naẓm). It is in these aspects of linguistic expression that an aesthetic theory of wonder can be uncovered in the classical Arabic critical tradition, including in discussions of poetry proper, engagements with Aristotelian Poetics, and works on eloquence and the miraculousness (iʿjāz) of the Quran, culminating by the thirteenth century in the formalized study of eloquence in ʿilm al-balāgha (the science of eloquence).
Arabic Poetics
Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature
Lara Harb
Print publication: 14 May 2020
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What makes language beautiful? Arabic Poetics offers an answer to what this pertinent question looked like at the height of the Islamic civilization. In this novel argument, Lara Harb suggests that literary quality depended on the ability of linguistic expression to produce an experience of discovery and wonder in the listener. Analyzing theories of how rhetorical figures, simile, metaphor, and sentence construction are able to achieve this effect of wonder, Harb shows how this aesthetic theory, first articulated at the turn of the eleventh century CE, represented a major paradigm shift from earlier Arabic criticism which based its judgement on criteria of truthfulness and naturalness. In doing so, this study poses a major challenge to the misconception in modern scholarship that Arabic criticism was 'traditionalist' or 'static', exposing an elegant widespread conceptual framework of literary beauty in the post-eleventh-century Islamicate world which is central to poetic criticism, the interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic philosophy and the rationale underlying discussions about the inimitability of the Quran.
Archaeologies of risk and wonder
Benjamin Alberti
Journal: Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 23 / Issue 2 / December 2016
In this statement, I argue that one way for archaeology to realize the potential of its materials to tell us something different about the past is to confront the question of alterity, understood as the ontological difference that lies at the roots of much archaeological material. If we accept alterity as a starting point of analysis then we stand a chance of challenging the strictures of interpretive frameworks that foreclose the possibility of encountering something new. Methodologically and theoretically I argue for risk-taking, especially taking on conceptual resources from indigenous thinkers and adopting a stance of wonder in the face of our materials which can open up unsuspected archaeological realities.
Uses of wonder in popular science: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and the origin of life
Daniel Helsing
Journal: International Journal of Astrobiology / Volume 15 / Issue 4 / October 2016
This paper analyses the use of wonder in the TV-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980). Popular science has been studied extensively (e.g. Broks 2006; Leane 2007; Perrault 2013), and wonder has been studied moderately (e.g. Daston & Park 1998; Fuller 2006; Vasalou 2015). However, there are very few studies of wonder in popular science. This paper explores how and why wonder is used in Cosmos, with the wider aim of understanding uses of wonder in popular science. The studies that discuss wonder in popular science (Fahnestock 1986; Perrault 2013) argue that wonder is used to enthuse the audience about science, but they do not discuss why wonder has this ability, nor whether wonder has other functions. This paper argues that Fuller's (2006) psychological and evolutionary account of wonder can elucidate why wonder has the ability to enthuse; it discerns three senses of 'wonder' (related to objects, emotions and attitudes); and it discusses other functions of wonder (existential, aesthetic and ethical). Due to the centrality of astrobiological questions in Cosmos, this paper also highlights the relation of these questions to the senses and functions of wonder in Cosmos.
12 - Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
By Michael A. Rosenthal
Edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed, The Johns Hopkins University, Michael A. Rosenthal, University of Washington
Book: Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise'
In the Theological-Political Treatise, Spinoza offers a secular account of sovereign authority. Scripture is full of examples in which sovereigns point to some supposed miracle in order to inspire awe and wonder in their subjects. This chapter argues that collective action problems in Spinoza's social contract theory cannot be solved via Spinoza's strong sense of reason without begging the question. All forms of religion are not problematic in Spinoza's view. Religion must be stripped of its metaphysical pretensions. The chapter shows that even if there is no explicit appeal to miracles and their attendant wonder, there is another way in which the structure of the miracle has been imported into Spinoza's political thinking at a key point. It claims that Spinoza re-establishes the structure of the miracle in his account of the lawmaker's will. The purpose of human law is to regulate those who are passionate and tend to conflict.


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The 22 hospitals physicians prefer most, ranked by specialty
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Physicians ranked New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston among the top hospitals across various specialties, according to a recent Medscape report.
Medscape analysts surveyed 8,504 physicians across more than 25 specialties between Dec. 5, 2016 and March 27, 2017. The survey concerned which hospitals physicians preferred to be treated at or where they would send a family member for treatment of a complex or difficult condition.
When describing their preferences, respondents considered whether the hospital could provide medically respected physician expertise (42 percent), maintained a good reputation among colleagues (19 percent) and had a specific physician at the facility (13 percent).
Here are the 22 hospitals physicians preferred most, listed by specialty and including ties.
Top hospitals for breast cancer
1. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City)
2. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
3. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
4. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston)
5. Cleveland Clinic
6. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
7. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care
7. City of Hope's Helford Clinical Research Hospital (Duarte, Calif.)
7. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
10. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
10. Brigham & Women's Hospital (Boston)
Top hospitals for prostate cancer
1. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
3. Mayo Clinic
4. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
6. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
6. UCSF Medical Center
8. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
9. Duke University Hospital
9. Stanford Health Care
Top hospitals for hip replacement
1. Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)
4. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
4. New England Baptist Hospital (Boston)
4. Massachusetts General Hospital
8. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Top hospitals for cardiac conditions
3. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
6. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
6. Brigham & Women's Hospital
9. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
9. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Top hospitals for interventional cardiac surgery
3. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
9. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Top hospitals for infectious disease
6. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
8. Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
Top hospitals for stroke
9. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Top hospitals for multiple sclerosis
10. Michigan Medicine
Top hospitals for lung cancer
7. City of Hope's Helford Clinical Research Hospital
To view the full report, click here.
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William P. Lauder
A Value System
An Interview with William P. Lauder, Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
William Lauder held the role of Chief Executive Officer from July 2004 to June 2009 before assuming his current post. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer. Lauder joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director of Clinique U.S.A. in the New York metro area. Prior to this, he completed the Macy's Executive Training Program in New York City and became Associate Merchandising Manager of the New York Division/Dallas store at the time of its opening in September 1985. Lauder is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Fresh Air Fund and a member of the Board of Directors of the 92nd Street Y. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the University of Grenoble in France.
Headquartered in New York City and with more than 30,000 employees, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (www.elcompanies.com) is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of high-quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. The company sells its products in more than 150 countries and territories under brand names including Aramis, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Clinique, Coach, Donna Karan, Estée Lauder, Goodskin Labs, Lab Series Skincare for Men, La Mer, M·A·C, Ojon, Origins, and Tommy Hilfiger.
How critical is philanthropy to the culture of The Estée Lauder Companies and how do you determine which areas to focus on?
Citizenship is not just on an individual level but also on a social level, so we can be a good corporate citizen much in the manner that we would hope individuals would act as members of a larger society.
But we also have our stakeholders, who aren't just shareholders but employees, consumers, and vendors, who enjoy doing business with us not just because they can make money but because they have a sense of pride in the value system that stands behind us and how we involve them in that ecosystem.
With a lot of our philanthropic activities – be it The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, the M·A·C AIDS Fund, Aveda and Origins with the environment, or Bobbi Brown and women's issues – the sense of pride that our employees have for their company is an extraordinarily important element of our success. They exude that pride and confidence to the people they interact with and we hope it spreads to those people we touch. Working with us is not just about making fabulous products but standing behind it is an organization with a value system they admire and feel comfortable with.
Is it important to align the areas you touch with your product marketing?
You need to talk about something your consumer cares about. This isn't cause-related marketing; this is about our company having a sense of social responsibility and participating as a citizen of society in an area we don't have to participate in.
Breast cancer awareness, AIDS, and the environment are causes that members of our stakeholder community think are important for any number of reasons.
Everybody knows someone who has been impacted by breast cancer. Between our efforts with The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign that is devoted to defeating breast cancer through education and medical research, and raising funds for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), we have seen a meaningful change in the treatment and cure of the disease, so we'd like to say we've made a difference.
Ultimately, everybody who can contribute feels good about their contribution, be it of time or money, because they can see a tangible result. The same can be said about the treatment of AIDS; it's no longer the death sentence in this country that it was perceived to be 20 years ago.
Is it critical to put metrics around each of those causes?
It's probably a bit ambiguous in that the effort in and of itself counts. The progress also matters, but just making the effort can make the difference for so many.
For example, for a long time we have been involved with Look Good…Feel Better, which is a public service program supported by the beauty industry and the American Cancer Society. We have employee volunteers traveling monthly to different hospitals where women are being treated with chemotherapy and teaching the women how to use makeup and wigs to look like themselves.
There is strong correlation between the psychological benefit of how people feel and their rate of cure. Within our company, there is a volunteer waiting list for this program, which says something about the value system of the people who are part of this company as well as the value of the program.
When your mother Evelyn launched The Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) Campaign and founded BCRF, do you think she could have imagined the kind of impact both would have?
This was her goal. When she launched The BCA Campaign in 1992 and then founded BCRF in 1993, she declared that we as citizens can choose to make a difference in some way, be it big or small.
New York is a phenomenal place because of its people, and as leaders of this city we are reinforcing that notion. So how do we continue to make it a great city?
Mayor Bloomberg is doing a great job and it's about what we can do to help, to encourage our employees to do the right thing, and to make this a better place.
With all the effort centered around breast cancer, how do you measure success?
Our goal is to educate everyone we can reach about the importance of breast health and regular screenings to catch the disease early, and also to help fund medical research to ultimately find a cure. The cure rates are going up dramatically. Interim metrics are the efforts we're making and what we are able to achieve from them.
For example, our BCA Campaign was the first to light landmarks and monuments around the world in pink, such as the Empire State Building or Harrods in London, to reach countless people with our awareness message.
We also field several calls a week from people looking for help in their treatment of breast cancer such as where to go for care or how to access the best doctors. There is someone in our office who spends half her time making the connections with people who have called. My mother used to spend a lot of time with women she met as they were going through their treatment, acting as a coach.
Why has the Partnership for New York City been so effective and are you surprised by how close knit the group is?
It doesn't surprise me. There are so many different large companies in New York City that there is a polyglot approach – and the group Kathy (Wylde, President and CEO) has put together is representative of the flavor of the city from a business leadership standpoint.
Regardless of the friendly competition, we all live in the same place and are pleased to participate together for the common good.•
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