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...Indira Subrahmanian raised Krish and his older sister, Chitra, near St. Paul, Minn., where they settled after emigrating from India in 1974. His father is a chemist at 3M and his mother, a diminutive bank teller who can just barely peek over the window. Both are “ridiculously supportive,” he says...
...perhaps the most salient example of designer permeation of the most utilitarian products is the O-CEL-O hourglass-shaped sponge by 3M. Sales tripled in 1999, after the company eschewed square for curvaceous and added brightly colored patterns. Now 3M is putting concept-driven designs on its sponges. "Washing dishes is not something that's pleasurable, so putting a little bit of design into it is good," says Zaki Kamandy, a second-year student at New York City's Parsons School of Design, whose stylized spoons-knives-forks-and-bubbles print--inspired by the gaggle that always gets washed...
...HRAs aren't new. Textron, which labels them "personal-care accounts," offered them to 3% of its work force last January. What's new is Treasury's blessing of the accumulation feature. Starting this January, Textron will expand the benefit to most of its 51,000 employees. Coors and 3M will start a similar program. "This is the future of health care," says FlexBen's Wilson, who predicts most large companies will set up HRAs in the next few years. The downside: to offset the costs of HRAs, companies will impose significantly higher monthly premiums and deductibles...
...HRAS aren't new. Textron, which labels them "personal-care accounts," offered them to 3% of its work force last January. What's new is Treasury's blessing of the accumulation feature. Starting this January, Textron will expand the benefit to most of its 51,000 employees. Coors and 3M will start a similar program. "This is the future of health care," says FlexBen's Wilson, who predicts most large companies will set up HRAS in the next few years. The downside: to offset the costs of hras, companies will impose significantly higher monthly premiums and deductibles...
...MICROSOFT attacking its market niche, corporate sleuthing has become more valuable than ever. "The most fundamental importance of intelligence is to warn--specifically, to warn against surprise attack," says consultant William DeGenaro, a veteran of government intelligence and a former director of business research and analysis at 3M. "Take the same process and substitute another threat--a blindsiding alliance, a technology shift. It's all the same...