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Katie Burke ’03<\/a><\/h3>\n

In the battle of the benefits, tactics are shifting \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Boston Globe<\/em> sought out Katie Burke ’03<\/a>, the chief people officer at HubSpot, for its story on the changing nature of company perks.<\/p>\n

Reporter Scott Kirsner says that “offering dazzling benefits,” like beer taps and catered lunches “just for the sake of grabbing a candidate\u2019s attention” isn’t the goal any more. In the Boston area specifically, firms are finding that what workers want most are benefits that create work-life balance.<\/p>\n

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Katie Burke \u201903, chief people officer of HubSpot, speaks about leadership at a recent Boston Bates Business Network event. (Paige Brown \u201996 for Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe thing we are working the most on for the year ahead is infusing flexibility into our experience,\u201d says Burke. That includes \u201cexploring more remote work options\u201d and \u201cmaking no travel or minimal travel an option for senior positions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke notes that while “it\u2019s much easier” for the media “to talk about the new sexy trends\u201d related to employee benefits, “no one talks about the hard, gritty work of training good managers or training people to develop new skills.”<\/p>\n

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Michael Katz ’84<\/a><\/h3>\n
U.S. healthcare has an immature business model. Here’s how to fix it \u2014 The Hill<\/em><\/h5>\n
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Michael Katz ’84<\/p><\/div>\n

Pediatric anesthesiologist Michael Katz, in an opinion piece for The Hill<\/em> on healthcare reform<\/a>, says that “Washington\u2019s raging battles over healthcare finance reform are missing a fundamental point.”<\/p>\n

The real problem with U.S. healthcare, he says, is the “fundamentally flawed business structure underlying its delivery.”<\/p>\n

The answer, he says, is to force the system to evolve through new policies. Maturation means creating “a highly consolidated industry,” rather than the current fragmented one, that “will drive health systems to compete on price.”<\/p>\n

A “moral obligation to achieve health equality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The goal is not just reducing costs. Replacing the current, expensive “fee-for-service payment model with a value-based system” will give patients “higher-quality, lower-cost care with better health outcomes.”<\/p>\n

The imperative to achieve a more-healthy society, Katz says, means that our leaders should feel a “moral obligation to achieve health equality.”<\/p>\n

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Alexandra Cherubini ’99<\/a><\/h3>\n
The rare equestrian product that hits the mainstream \u2014 The Plaid Horse<\/em><\/h5>\n

The horse-show magazine The Plaid Horse<\/em> interviewed Alexandra Cherubini<\/a>, owner of the equestrian-products company EquiFit, about ShouldersBack, a posture-improving device she invented in 2001.<\/p>\n

Since then, ShouldersBack has “successfully crossed over from the equestrian world to the mainstream market, with mainstream sales exceeding equestrian sales,” says editor Sissy Wickes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the horse industry, and that\u2019s what we are about,\u201d Cherubini said. \u201cBut, it is fun to have a product that crosses over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worn like a vest, ShouldersBack gently encourages equestrians to maintain good posture, which helps horse and rider work together.<\/p>\n

EquiFit has since developed “an iconic brand of [horse] boots” known as the T-Boot, “EquiFit\u2019s flagship product…[a] the foamed-lined, non-chafing, washable boot” that is now “de rigueur<\/em> for equestrians nationwide.”<\/p>\n

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Jason Fein<\/a><\/h3>\n
The intent of any changes will be to elevate Bates College \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n

When the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> interviewed Jason Fein, the college’s first new director of athletics in a decade<\/a>, the focus was on any changes that Fein might make.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s incremental change,\u201d Fein told Assistant Sports Editor Lee Horton. \u201cWhen you\u2019re 20th”\u00a0in the the national Directors\u2019 Cup<\/a> list of the nation’s best athletics programs, “logic would say don\u2019t come in and try to change a whole lot.”<\/p>\n

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Director of Athletics Jason Fein stands before a portrait of early-20th century Director of Athletics Royce Purington, Class of 1900, in the lobby of Alumni Gym. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Horton said that the intent of Fein’s changes “will be, of course, to elevate Bates College.”<\/p>\n

Fein says the focus is “how can we best support (the coaches) to make the improvements they need to? How do we get from there to there? It\u2019s incremental, which is a cool challenge as opposed to being down here and we want to go up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ibram X. Kendi<\/a><\/h3>\n
To end racism, focus more on new policy \u2014 Maine Public<\/h5>\n

Before speaking in the Gomes Chapel on Oct. 23, historian and author Ibram X. Kendi spoke with Maine Public’s Nora Flaherty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Efforts to end racism in American have “focused on trying to educate away the racist ideas” through “education and love.”\u00a0 The problem is, he said, is that producers of racist ideas tend not to create them out of ignorance or hate but from “economic, political, and cultural self-interest.”<\/p>\n

Kendi suggest that when “we think about these mass-produced racist ideas and these mass-produced racist policies…it’s more effective to challenge the policies than it is to educate away these ideas.”<\/p>\n

Historically, he says, “we’ve actually been able to undermine racist ideas by undermining racist policies. And I think that’s where we should focus moving forward.”<\/p>\n

Founder of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, Kendi won the National Book Award for Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This Bates tweet from the Ibram X. Kendi talk on Oct. 23 has been retweeted 421 times, thanks to an initial retweet by social activist and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Krista Aronson<\/a><\/h3>\n
Solving a parenting challenge with an innovative database of diverse picture books \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n

The Sun Journal<\/em> profiled Associate Professor of Psychology Krista Aronson<\/a>, who, with a team of colleagues has created the Diverse BookFinder<\/a>, a searchable database of diverse children’s picture books.<\/p>\n

The purpose of creating the database is about more than finding good bedtime reading.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a lot of evidence that reading diverse picture books can make it easier for kids to interact across difference, help them develop empathy and better prepare them for our changing world,” Aronson told reporter Lindsay Tice.<\/p>\n

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For Krista Aronson, an inspiration for a new direction for her research came from her daughter’s relationships with white and Somali children at school. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0David Gervais<\/a><\/h3>\n
Bates dishwasher raises $105,000 for the Dempsey Challenge \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n

“David Gervais has worked in the college\u2019s kitchens for 39 years, since graduating from Lewiston High School,” writes Sun Journal reporter Kathryn Skelton<\/a>. “He\u2019s also a Dempsey Challenge fundraiser. A very good one.”<\/p>\n

In nine years, Gervais has raised more than $105,000.<\/p>\n

Held annually in October, the Dempsey Challenge running and bicycling fundraiser supports the Dempsey Center, which serves, free of charge, anyone affected by cancer.<\/p>\n

It’s sponsored by actor, philanthropist, and Lewiston native Patrick Dempsey, who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Commencement in May.<\/p>\n

He jokes that he and actor Patrick Dempsey are \u201clike that,\u201d crossing his two fingers. \u201c(He\u2019s) super nice,\u201d Gervais told Skelton. \u201cEvery year at the (fundraiser) banquets, he would come over and say hi. There were a lot of girls around and they would say, \u2018How do you know Patrick Dempsey?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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David Gervais of Bates Dining Services poses with Patrick Dempsey in October 2016. (Lewiston Sun Journal photo)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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