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CONSUMERS AND INVESTORS OFTEN get nervous stomachs when they hear talk of synergy, that snaggle-toothed harbinger of bad mergers. So Aetna Life & Casualty Co. chairman Ronald Compton was administering verbal sedatives last week when he talked about the proposed merger between Aetna and U.S. Healthcare Inc. that will create the country's largest medical-benefits corporation. "The two companies are in fact complementary," said Compton. "They are yin and yang...
Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA) is a non-profit, student-run organization. Phillips Brooks House (PBH) is a department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Kidd heads that department and all of its staff report...
...high-tech revolution and the globalization of the economy has created a high demand for people with motivation, work ethic, creativity, flexibility and international experience, skills that are fostered at Harvard (examples can be found inc consulting, finance, medicine and other growing professions). I would like to quote Professor David Laibson, who responded this way in an Economics 1011b lecture to a question about Pat Buchanan: "Students of this university and this class will be those who benefit most from the drastic changes in our economy. The demand for lowly-skilled workers and their standard of living have decreased sharply...
...Internet. But Lenat isn't the only researcher poised to bring real intelligence to intelligent agents. If anybody is likely to beat him to market, it's a former student of Brooks' named Patricia Maes, founder of the M.I.T. MediaLab's Autonomous Agents group and of Agents, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maes and her students have devised imaginative ways to use bottom-up AI to personalize information delivery--"your news" as opposed to "the news...
Political sources tell TIME that one-time Connecticut senator and governor Lowell Weicker is seeking a wealthy running mate to help finance a presidential bid. His choice will likely be B.T. Golisano, president and CEO of Paychex Inc., a Rochester payroll servicing company. If Weicker and Golisano reach an agreement, they would immediately commence petition drives to get on state ballots. Weicker, who was a maverick in the Republican party while in the Senate, became Connecticut's first independent governor in 1990. Golisano ran unsuccessfully in New York's 1994 gubernatorial race as a third-party candidate. TIME sources...