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InnoCentive was looking to expand beyond industrial research into philanthropy; Bent needed a better light for the developing world. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York venture capital firm Spencer Trask - launched over a century ago by the man who helped finance Thomas Edison's first light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many People Does It Take to Make a New Light Bulb? | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

University President Drew G. Faust returned to the classroom Friday morning, but to lecture parents rather than students.Faust addressed an over-capacity crowd of more than 150 junior parents on issues ranging from the College’s new financial aid initiative to academic advising.Though most of the questions centered...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Addresses Junior Parents | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

That's because Muto must be approved by Japan's parliament-and some opposition party politicians say he's the wrong man for the job. Members of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which controls the upper house of the Diet, complain that Muto, a career bureaucrat who has spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muto to Head Japan's Central Bank? | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

But DPJ lawmaker Masaharu Nakagawa, the DPJ's finance spokesman and a member of the lower house budget committee, says his party is not about to roll over. Nakagawa says he favors a central banker who has shown leadership, not someone who consistently engages in "consensus making." Muto is scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muto to Head Japan's Central Bank? | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

If Obama's history is any guide, losses tend to speed him up, not slow him down. As a state senator in 2000, he took on the Cook County machine to challenge a sitting four-term Congressman and lost - a pre-emptive strike against the political establishment and a cocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Play Offense? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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