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How Maia Josebachvili Turned Her Skydiving Hobby Into a Business

One broke college student e-mailed all her contacts and turned her wanderlust into Urban Escapes, a company that has just been acquired by LivingSocial.READ»

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Leadership for a Thriving, Sustainable World

This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer.“The question of reaching sustainability is not about whether we will have the money, or ...READ»

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Do Improv Comedians Make the Best Design Thinkers?

A teacher of design thinking at Dartmouth uses improv set-ups to boost his students' creativity.READ»

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The Campus as Living Laboratory

This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will ...READ»

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Making a Sustainability Perspective Second Nature in Education

Higher Education teaches a solution to the central question of our time: How can we continue to develop and prosper on such a small planet? READ»

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Higher Education's Purpose: A Healthy, Just, and Sustainable Society

At colleges and universities, tomorrow’s business leaders, architects, product designers, policy-makers, schoolteachers, economists, etc. learn about how the world works and how things get done. To date, they’ve learned how to do this in an unsustainable way. READ»

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Smartphone Crowdsourcing Uncovers Ski Report Snowjob

My wife is way up in the frosty Bavarian mountains right at the moment, and I don't need to check out the weather reports to know the snow conditions: I just need an SMS from her like the one saying "There's a ton of it. I'm up to ...READ»

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Individual Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : 08/13/09

Even as partisan rhetoric swirled even stronger around the subject of health care reform, the Senate Finance Committee continued its health reform negotiations last week in what is the last hope for a bipartisan bill from READ»

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Changes Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one ...READ»

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What fuel are you using to power your engine?

It's challenging to balance family life with the desire to be a business leader. The work/life balance becomes easier when you learn to recognize that the lessons you need to grow your leadership skills won't come from business ...READ»

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Graduating MBA Resumes Now Available!

New MBA and Alumni Resume Books Released! The following graduate business schools’ resume book databases have been released (or will be released in the upcoming week) for you to begin searching and filtering though the ...READ»

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Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips

Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips 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»

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Same Old Challenges in the New Telecom Era

No competitor, whether born in the Internet boom or several decades earlier, will succeed without recognizing that revolutions in strategy call for bold steps in organizational design.READ»

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Contributors

MARKUS KLINKO & INDRANI When Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal- Chaudhuri teamed up in 1995, both were already stars -- Klinko as a classical harpist, and Indrani as a fashion model. Now they are famous for their iconic images of ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Meet John Donahoe, eBay's new CEO

This afternoon eBay made it official: Meg Whitman's stepping down, and John Donahoe's stepping up. No surprise, of course. When Whitman brought in Donahoe in 2005 to run marketplaces, which generate about 70 percent of the company's ...READ»

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Back to the Future

This fall's New England technology summit focused on risks and opportunities facing the region's tech sector in 2002. Festivities included some good-natured political sparring and a grimly optimistic forecast from a group of gloomy VCs.READ»

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Sister Cities

Fast Company visits Houston, San Francisco, and Boston in search of female leaders with smart advice for tough times. Here, a dozen powerful women (and a few men) share their thoughts on leadership, crisis, and mentoring.READ»

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Tracey Pettengill

"I constantly live with butterflies in my stomach. It's such an exciting and stressful time that I wake up with that feeling and reach for some Pepto-Bismol."READ»

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The Storm After the Storm

Tulane University President Scott Cowen was at the tail end of a respected career when Katrina hit. The hurricane almost destroyed his institution--and gave him the chance to reinvent it.READ»

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This Will Make Your Skin Crawl

A new concept could let your own epidermis become a medical monitor.READ»

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Return on Consultant

Are consultants really worth the big bucks we pay them? Hmm...let us guess.READ»

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The Management Express

You want MBA smarts -- but without the MBA commitment. Look no further.READ»

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We Have Met the Enemy...

Sometimes, to get your point across, you need to play the role of devil's advocate. The creator of the Society for Leadership of Change did more than that; he created an entire professional association of devil's advocates.READ»