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...World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005, which ranks 104 economies on whether they have what it takes to keep growing. Japan, which placed 21st in 2001, has muscled its way back into the top 10 on the strength of renewed confidence and improved public-sector transparency. But China has fallen to 46th place, behind Latvia and Botswana. "The message to China is you've grown really well," says WEF senior economist Jennifer Blanke, "but if you want to continue to grow, you have to improve your institutions, cut down on corruption, improve property rights and ensure...
...fledgling entrepreneur, Rich joined forces with Princeton graduates Jeremy Kahn and Jonathan Harris to develop a mint marketable beyond the Ivy League, in what he calls “the luxury consumables” sector...
...different problem: firms do not have an incentive to, say, take people who are programmers and train them to be systems-integration network engineers. We ought to have some kind of human-capital-investment tax credit, which would subsidize, for example, cross training an IT person in another sector, like health care. It improves the match between the workers' skills and the skills that are being demanded. The nation as a whole gets a spillover benefit if all firms engage in this kind of training. The other component of this would be subsidizing the first rung on the career ladder...
Chris: As if granola didn’t evoke enough images of dirt-encrusted, tree-hugging hippies, they had to throw in “hemp” to alienate the non-Phish-listening sector of the health-conscious crowd. To the cereal’s credit, my roommate claims that if you aggressively consume all of the available Hemp Granola in the dining hall you can sort of get high. Or at least so full that you feel weird...
Despite the lack of resources accessible to undergraduates considering careers in the nonprofit sector, Dixon believes that Harvard still has a lot of offer those considering the field, “ Harvard allows you to think on your toes and out of the box,” skills that she believes are vital to survival in the nonprofit world. Dixon also finds that the determination and passion of her fellow Harvardians has, in fact, given her the toughness she needs; “if you can deal with the crazy people here at Harvard, you can definitely deal with those...