Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Dockery '67 may very well be the only man on earth with a Harvard class ring and a Super Bowl ring. And there's a reason for that, the former sideline broadcaster says--a Harvard degree is not much of an asset in the National Football League...
...People look at you as if you are somewhat of a misfit," Dockery says. "The places that I went, my Harvard degree was not an asset. It gave me an identity, but it was not necessarily something that was going to help me along with my career...
...long-term value of your 401(k). After years of consulting for big pension funds, Nobel-prizewinning economist Bill Sharpe packaged his simulation software into the easy-to-use www.financialengines.com If you want to pay $14.95 a quarter, the service will advise you on how to improve your asset allocation. Compare its forecasts with ones from www.fplanauditors.com which uses historical data to evaluate all your assets...
...earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, with a 280-page dissertation entitled An Asset Price Approach to the Analysis of Capital Income Taxation, and after a stint at MIT, went on to become the youngest tenured professor in Harvard's history...
...often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary. Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world. This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset...