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...Management and Budget during former President Clinton's first term in the White House, leading the office through the 1995 congressional deadlock and government shutdown. In 1996, she was named vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, working with Alan Greenspan on managing an economy that permitted a maximum of growth without inflation. Currently, she holds a Senior Fellowship in the Brookings Institute, a Washington-based think tank where future Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers has been spending his past few months. Today, she will be receiving a Doctorate of Laws...
...While many professors engage in some outside activities, only a small percentage approach their maximum time allotment for time away from the classroom, HBS says...
...Dartmouth College have all announced major changes to the way they distribute aid. In the space of three and a half years, Harvard has increased financial aid packages by $4,000. Smaller colleges have made changes as well. Williams College, for example, capped tuition and significantly reduced the maximum loan over the past four years...
...spend less than six hours a year managing or monitoring our accounts. "For most people, self-directed retirement plans are a bad idea," says Wayne Gates, Hancock's investment and pension general director, whose company has been following 401(k) investors for a decade. He recommends investing the maximum to provide a greater margin of error, hiring a financial planner or investing in life-stage funds, which automatically reallocate, depending on your age and goals...
What's more challenging are the attempts to create new needs, to exploit technologies to their maximum potential before it's evident anyone even wants them. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a team of researchers is working on a "hypersoap" that could revolutionize the way we shop. It takes the idea of TV product placement to its absolute extreme. Touch any item on the screen around the actors and you get product info. Necklace: J.C. Penney, $35. Tissue: Kleenex, $1.99. Book: Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, $25. You can't get any more interactive than that. These people...