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...have been first, but now she has company. “It’s undoubtedly the first rap song recorded by a Harvard professor,” Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Rosabeth M. Kanter writes about her single “Evolve!” on her website www.rosabeth.com. The Harvard Business School professor recorded and released “Evolve!” on CD as a benefit for CityYear, a national service organization. She says the song “summarizes” her book, Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, and makes...
...This is a new legal argument that has yet to be tested in the courts," says Arlene Kanter, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law. She adds that De Santiago's case will be the first to make the argument before the board of immigration appeals. Of course, Umair has no understanding of the legal maneuvers that will determine his future. It is a symptom of his illness that he grows profoundly attached to routine. He knows to wait for the bus at 7:40 a.m. and to return home at 3:45 p.m. Some Saturdays, he picks...
...Kanter says she gets her real kicks these days mostly from the Sarosi-Kanter Charitable Foundation that she and her husband Marc started with $2 million. And she knows half a dozen other current and former Microsofties who have started foundations. "The status symbol of the '80s was a BMW. The status symbol of this decade is having your own foundation named after you," says a Microsoft retiree, who naturally has her own. The move certainly makes financial sense for folks like Kanter. After typical start-up costs of about $20,000, assets of more than...
...themselves and setting aside a sizable chunk for their heirs. Then it was monument-building time, with wings of hospitals, symphony halls, operas, libraries, zoos and other civic institutions being the major beneficiaries. Many of today's wealthy are different. "I'm not just into writing checks," says Kanter, echoing many of her peers. "I want to see and feel the results...
Those results include Paulo Liwanag, 20, for whom Kanter's foundation paid $3,500 in tuition for a technology course that qualified him as a Microsoft Certified Professional, a valuable accreditation in his field. Liwanag, whom Kanter met while working at Microsoft, could not have afforded the tuition on his own. It prepared him for a more promising career--and a $45,000 salary. "This will really help," he says. "I see myself working for a really big company in the computer field." Kanter, who has paid tuition for 14 other young people, says, "This is the most fulfilling thing...