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January 16, 2003
“If you look just broadly at whether companies that lay off do better, the answer appears to be no.”
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School, on the effect of downsizing on corporate performance (The New York Times, Dec. 26)
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