Is upward mobility a thing of the past in America? In his latest post, Barry Mills argues that “The American Dream” depends on access to quality education.
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Brunswick ME February 23, 2012, 5:22 am  37°F wind speed: 4 mph SSW |  Ken Chenault '73
American Express CEO Ken Chenault ’73 is among Advertising Age magazine’s list of the country’s top 10 forward-thinking executives. Chenault is said to be “particularly adept at understanding” that his particular brand, while making nothing, is built on something “far more elusive and hard to define.” Read the article.
From the category of learning from the mistakes of others comes advice from Sydney Finkelstein, Dartmouth’s Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business. His book Why Smart Executives Fail yields what he calls the Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives.  Mr. ZIP promoted use of ZIP codes in the 1960s and 1970s. Image: USPS.
The Zone Improvement Plan, better known as the ZIP code, is in its 50th year. The branching structure of the code, inaugurated in 1963 and augmented in the 1980s with the introduction of the ZIP+4 code, has been rich fodder for those who excel at illustrating the abstract aspects of the code’s fractal dimensions. Among others, check out the interactive graphic that lets you see which region each digit describes. |  | ||
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