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...thinking of all the equally or more productive places I could've been at that moment. At Harvard, you're always somehow missing an opportunity, even if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, i.e. going to class. For the driven types that Harvard tends to attract, this realization is stressful...
...this one to do the same, Macapagal-Arroyo will need to move quickly to develop a plan for economic and legal revitalization. The new 53-year-old President has a Ph.D. in economics (she was a schoolmate of Bill Clinton's at Georgetown) and has worked hard to attract new investors. She was already a popular political figure, regularly outpolling Estrada in approval ratings even during his best moments in power. And like George W. Bush, who was sworn in just hours after her, she is the child of a former President: Diosdado Macapagal, who ruled the country from...
...practice, of course, it has been a whole lot messier. The nation's old, Balkanized transmission grid isn't built to handle so much long-distance traffic. And freshly liberated markets won't necessarily attract new suppliers because the cost of entry--a multibillion-dollar power plant--is high. So real competition is, by and large, harder to find. "If deregulation is a good idea, and it still may be, it needs to be implemented when you have the infrastructure in place," says James Bernstein, commerce commissioner of Minnesota, which still has a regulated electricity system and may have...
...staff members take part. In addition, the company has two annual retreats that include some time for group volunteer efforts. Shared Vision refers staff members to websites that can help them locate organizations in need of volunteers. "Offering this time off is a large expense, but it helps us attract the type of community-minded employees that we want working here," Haber says. "And those people tend to remain with us once they join." The program can cost Shared Vision, which has annual revenues of $6 million, anywhere from $6,000 to $12,000 a year per employee who participates...
...still bank on its reputation as a freewheeling international city with a sound judicial system and guarantees of autonomy under the terms of the takeover. Those qualities could help preserve the territory's financial supremacy. The city's low business-tax rates, which hover around 16%, still attract foreign investors and entrepreneurs. In Shanghai, corporate taxes fall below 33% only for denizens of Pudong. Perhaps most important, Hong Kong remains Asia's banking center and a must stop for anyone in the region seeking corporate financing. Chinese banks, on the other hand, are still tightly controlled by the state...