After 27 years at the banking giant Citicorp/Citibank, ending up as vice chairman and chairman of the executive committee and nine years as the second-in-charge at Fannie Mae, America’s largest investor in home mortgages Laurence Small took over the top job at the Smithsonian this week. For the Smithsonian’s 6,000 employees, a “hard-knuckled business type is a shift from the long line of scientists and scholars.” – Washington Post