'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «
on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business
graduates want to work here... people
on airplanes rave about one of our
products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen
new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so
on.
The SCOPE teams often come up with novel ideas to enable opportunities for our
new products... We've hired students and
graduates, and they infect the teams that they work
on.
Icahn's eighth - grade
graduates go
on to apply to and attend selective
New York City high schools, but network superintendent Jeff Litt notes that the ultimate goal is «putting kids
on the path to fulfilling,
product lives.»