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Men and Women and Time Off

There's an interesting new survey out from Aquent, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Work+Life Fit. It brings some evidence to the question: Can women get away with more than men? The researchers surveyed 495 men and ...READ»

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Online Insights

Starting next week, on Monday, we're launching a new weekly series of Online Insights columnists to be featured on the home page. Our first featured writer is Vijay Govindarajan, director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for ...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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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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Autumn in Camden, Maine

I'm up here in Camden, Maine for the 2.5-day PopTech conference. It's one of the best annual gatherings on the cultural and personal impact of technology. This year, it seems more science-oriented than in past years. Just heard from ...READ»

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Keeping Up With the Vanderbilts

From the obvious headline department: a piece in today's New York Times called "Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices." It's an article about people who grew up dreaming of, and attending graduate school with the purpose of, ...READ»

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Fishing for Schools

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»

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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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Same Old Challenges in the New Telecom Era

There comes a single, unified network. One that carries data, voice, and video all over the same wires. The alphabet soup of telecom technologies -- POTS, SONET, ATM -- will vanish. It will be all Internet, all of the time. The ...READ»

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GE's Two CEOs

The same day that ex-GE chief exec Jack Welch was getting hitched to Suzi Wetlaufer in Boston, I was up at Dartmouth College for the school's annual Greener Ventures entrepreneurship conference, where the featured speaker was current ...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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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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Operation: Enduring Institution

Booz Allen Hamilton has released a list of what it considers the top 10 most enduring institutions. Parallel to the storied Built to Last, the study considered characteristics such as innovation, leadership, culture and values, ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Turning the (conference) tables

Five top business-school deans grapple with questions from their own MBA application forms.READ»

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GE Smackdown!

Jeff Immelt and Jack Welch go toe-to-toe.READ»

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MBA Summer Blues

You are a newly minted MBA. You don't have a job. You are not alone. Here's what you should do.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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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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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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Books That Matter: Mae Jemison

A book recommendation from Mae Jemison, of the Jemison Group.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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The Fast Pack

We invited some of the smartest people we know to consider four of the toughest questions around. Fast Company celebrates its second anniversary with the ultimate business roundtable.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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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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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»