A friend of mine who is a recent social psychology Ph.D. at Columbia University (and teaches courses on organizational behavior) is conducting research on the impressions people form of each other at work. Her web-based survey asks ...READ MORE›
It's no secret that residents of carcinogen-thick cities have above average incidences of asthma. Now a new generation of pocket-sized pollution detectors, developed by scientists at Columbia University and the Pacific Northwest ...READ MORE›
An article in the current issue of The Harvard Business Review validates a nasty little secret: the best products aren’t necessarily the most successful. The piece, which discusses a Columbia University study, concludes that a ...READ MORE›
I called Columbia University in New York City numerous times asking them not to profit financially from my Indian National Project Paper. Columbia University continually ignores my requests since I cannot afford an attorney.
Columbia University charges people thousands of dollars each year to access my paper and I cannot even access myself for lack of funds. I posted it as a free service for anyone to read on the following website:
http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/3_1starr.htmREAD MORE›
A Columbia University economist, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, spoke at a session on global competitiveness in Davos this morning. He offered what I think is the most succinct statement of the stages economies move through on their way to ...READ MORE›
Smoking apologists unite! Finally, there is another thing that people are putting into their bodies that will cause just as much damage. It's called food. And too much of it leads to obesity. The bad news: If you are thinking of ever ...READ MORE›
A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors.
The application ...READ MORE›
US News & World Report released its new list of America's best graduate schools in the April 11 edition. Here's the top 10 business schools:
Harvard University
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
MIT ...READ MORE›
The BigShot build-it-yourself digital camera kit has adjustable lenses, gears and dynamo (the camera is powered with a hand crank), to teach kids about optics, mechanics and energy.READ MORE›
We've all heard that favors are a social lubricant and workplace currency. You do something nice for someone, and they'll return the favor. Everybody wins.
It's a bit more complicated than that, according to Columbia University ...READ MORE›
An indicator that may or may not mean anything: Four of this year's six Nobel Prizes have been awarded--and all have been won by Americans. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won in medicine, for discovering a mechanism to control the flow ...READ MORE›
Today's Workforce Week says:
They get less credit for it, but women help co-workers more than men do, according to Columbia University professor Frank Flynn. He did two studies, one of engineers and one of IT employees. Employees ...READ MORE›
"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ MORE›
You’d have to have been living on another planet not to notice that saving our planet is a pretty big trend these days and the trend for all things ‘green’ and sustainable is naturally making its impact on innovation too. In ...READ MORE›
Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume
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If you want top-tier business talent to fill positions in your office, look here first! MBA student and alumni online resume books are available to order right now! ...READ MORE›
Today, thanks to Facebook and other social media, many folks are more likely to get their news from friends in the social networking sense of that word, than from traditional sources.READ MORE›
To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ MORE›
According to indie rocker Jill Sobule, there's only one thing record labels are still good for and that’s financing albums. Everyone is preoccupied over which music-distribution model will win out, but the fallout of the Internet's ...READ MORE›
A friend of mine took her seven-year-old granddaughter to Toys R Us and told the girl she could take home any one toy in the store. Wonderful gesture? It didn’t work out that way. No matter what the granddaughter considered ...READ MORE›
Once when my daughter was very small and we were dining in a seafood restaurant, she looked at her placemat and was puzzled. The paper placemat was illustrated with colorful pictures of pirates, and she was wondering why so many of ...READ MORE›
How do you use the various professional associations, networking organizations, and work groups you participate in?
New York City Company of Friends member Jon Myers, managing partner of Balance Technologies distinguishes between ...READ MORE›
Last night I attended a small-business forum organized by Manhattan's Community Board 4 that addressed the problematic future of New York's small businesses. The meeting was held in conjunction with a screening of Virginie Alvine-Perrette's documentary, "Twilight Becomes Night."READ MORE›
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