Topic: Arizona State University

Life in the Desert

At Arizona State, a new bastion of sustainability.READ»

Customers First Local Hero: Cereality

Cereality For years you've been buying a couple of boxes of cereal and creating a custom blend catered to your tastes. So why didn't you think of Cereality? Its pajama-clad employees offer up familiar cold or hot cereals and an ...READ»

Piggybacking on Other Brands

Here's a novel shot at a new restaurant concept: An eatery devoted to serving breakfast cereal. Cereality, a Boulder, Colorado, company this Wednesday opens its first full scale, sit-down restaurant, near the campus of the University ...READ»

Green? Yes. But Just How Sustainable Is Your Product?

Brittni Furrow is one of 55 graduate students and 181 undergrads studying sustainability at ASU. Furrow hopes to create a labeling system that would make it easy to see how sustainable a product is.READ»

• Harvard Goes To Hollywood
• Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media
• How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups

“Downsizing Flexibility Champions”—Alternatives to Layoffs Honor Roll (Updated 5/29/09)

On the “Using Workplace Flexibility as Part of a Downsizing Strategy” Flex Options teleconference for the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau (transcript now available here), I announced that I was going to start a list ...READ»

Management Wired: What Can Brain Science Tell Us About Leadership?

Research on how the human brain can affect behaviors--called neuroscience, or the popular term, brain science--has yet to be fully appreciated by leaders of organizations. That knowledge could have a significant impact on how leaders are trained and what they do. In the past few decades, Scientists have gained new and more accurate scientific views of human behavior, studying the human brain. Organizational change that takes into account the physiological nature of the brain and ways that predisposes people to resist or cooperate with leaders can be extremely useful for leaders.READ»

Management Rewired: What CAn Brain Science Tell Us About Leadership?

Research on how the human brain can affect behaviors--called neuroscience, or the popular term, brain science--has yet to be fully appreciated by leaders of organizations. That knowledge could have a significant impact on how leaders are trained and what they doREAD»

The Price of Disgust

How much less will we pay for a shirt someone else has tried on?READ»

Sunrise Over the Palm Trees (Part 1)

During my sophomore year of college at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) I would get up almost every morning between 5:00 and 5:30 and ride my bike over to the track where I would join the other morning joggers. I am very much a ...READ»

It's Teamwork -- After All

You are a leader. You are (let's assume) the most senior and experienced member of your team. When making decisions, how often do you tap into the insights and ideas of other members of your team? How often do you go it alone? Now, ...READ»

Shark-Skin Inspired Car Cover Improves Gas Mileage?

You know it's hard economic times when a manufacturer sells you a hocus-pocus-sounding stick-on skin for your car and suggests it increases your miles-per-gallon efficiency: and that's exactly what SkinzWraps is. It also potentially ...READ»

Kartik Ramakrishnan

"By age 30, the average Indian is married and has two kids. Let's just say that I'm not married and I don't have two kids. In some sense, that's the price I've paid for where I am today."READ»

Online Education Beats the Classroom

On Wednesday, Aug. 19, the New York Times published an article based on a 12 year study comprehensive study on online education at all levels (K-12, college and adult continuing education programs of all kinds) was recently published. The study encompassed 99 quantitative studies comparing online and instructor lead courses.READ»

Putting Customers First

You'd think more companies would have gotten it by now. Unfortunately, organizations that put customers at the center of what they do are rare -- so rare that we're celebrating them. Meet the best customer-focused outfits, and learn from them.READ»

Trendsetter - Barry Shepard

He helps some of the world's best-known companies cut through marketing clutter and communicate effectively with their customers. His secret for helping brands get and keep your attention? A picture really is worth a thousand words.READ»

Campuses Scramble to Go Green--Sustainability Report Cards Rate Them

College sustainability report cards are coming out faster than we can report on them, with rankings from the Princeton Review, the Sierra Club, and now Green Report Card. They all aim to guide future college students in their quests ...READ»

Hot Tickets

EBay and other scrappy online outfits have created a legitimate $2 billion--plus secondary market for seats at concerts and sports events--and a risky new world for Ticketmaster.READ»

Kindle 3 Rumors Heat Up: 9.7-Inch Screen, Full Browser

The news about the upcoming Amazon big-screen e-reader is developing fast: Just yesterday we heard it was definitely due, and there's an Amazon press conference scheduled tomorrow. But there's still time for the rumors to develop, ...READ»

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unveils Kindle DX in New York

At an event in New York City today, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced Kindle DX, a large-screen version of the popular e-reader device priced at $489. It will ship this summer, and is available for pre-order today. ...READ»

Made to Stick: The Myth of Mutual Funds

Why we don't always believe the truth.READ»

• Doing What Feels Right Despite the Evidence
• 10 Tips for Making Sensible Investments

Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design

John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl

Beyond CSI: Inside Anthony Zuiker's New Cross-Platform Experiment

Anthony Zuiker created CSI, generating more than $6 billion. But with his new cross-platform experiment, his killer instinct is really kicking in.READ»

Power Couple

How many great husband-and-wife business teams can you think of? Us neither. But Kate and Andy Spade have figured out how to make their unusual partnership work. They've built a fashion empire -- but can they make it last?READ»