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...Campbell, 50, manager of electronic commerce with the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, readily saw the need for a quick update in his field. He took a one-week, $5,000 course in managing technology and strategic innovation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. "What I learned keeps me and my group at the Postal Service on the cutting edge of technology and customer innovation," Campbell says. "Who would have thought a few years ago that people like me would be sitting in a class swapping Internet war stories...
Having an advanced degree, of course, is no bar to updating your skills. Take the case of Eva Wisnik, 35, a New York City career strategist and executive recruiter, who found that a special one-week $875 program in Fairfax, Va., on administering a career-assessment test was more valuable to her than her M.B.A., which cost $20,000 and took four years to complete on a part-time basis. "I have earned at least $45,000 from administering this test to about 900 people over the past few years," she reports. "This is far more than any actual earnings...
...want to make every Senator who votes against this look like he's against children," says a White House official. The White House hopes McCain and other Republicans will attend. Privately, McCain is telling supporters that he expects the modified bill to pass--but only after Congress takes its one-week Memorial Day recess...
...make money at bargain prices, Carnival counts heavily on economies of scale. For a one-week Caribbean cruise, Carnival's Elation stocks some 10,000 lbs. of meat along with 10,080 bananas, 41,660 eggs and more than 4,000 quarts of booze. By squeezing such costs, Arison says, Carnival can break even with its ships filled to around 60% of capacity. Yet with vessels like Destiny often packed to the gunwales, Carnival has been able to trim operating expenses to 54% of revenues. That contributes to a net profit margin of 27%, first class by any measure...
...addition to the cash prize, Itagaki won a one-week internship at Fidelity Investments, the primary sponsor of the contest, for his project entitled "Ereap...