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New York entrepreneur Charles B. Wang, who made his mark in software, is busy reinventing himself as a real estate tycoon. He's pushing a mammoth $3.8 billion mixed-use development in suburban Hempstead, Long Island, surrounding the Nassau Coliseum, where his New York Islanders hockey team plays. Full Story »

When insurer AIA moved back into its gray stone colonial headquarters on Shanghai's waterfront Bund in 1998, it marked the return of foreign insurance companies to China after their ejection nearly five decades earlier. Since then the floodgates have opened as Cigna , AXA , Allianz (Toronto:AZ.TO - News), and dozens more have set up shop on the mainland, aiming to tap a market of 1.3 billion people with few options for life insurance. Full Story »

Fascinating. Insightful. Investigative. Tumultuous. Microcosmic. Realistic. These are just a few of the adjectives that describe the once-in-a-lifetime summer opportunity I enjoyed from May through August of this year, as an MBA intern in the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) in the White House. Full Story »