Topic: Harvard University

Harvard to Power 10% of Its Campus Cith Wind

Harvard is already tops in most green university ratings, and now the school appears to be gunning for the number one spot with a commitment to get over 10% of its power from a wind farm in northern Maine. That's a big chunk of ...READ MORE›

More Social Media Policies: LA Times, Harvard Law, Microsoft, and Cisco

In our earlier story (Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre, and the Ugly), we asked you to send us more corporate social media policies, and you delivered. Here is a second batch, with good, mediocre and ugly ...READ MORE›

Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Okay, so I didn't go to Harvard. But I did graduate from that other Massachusetts university with such celebrated alumni as Tipper Gore and Hadassah Lieberman. Boston University may not have the brand-name appeal of Harvard ...READ MORE›

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class!READ MORE›

Gates Challenges Grads -Sweeney Goads Retirees

  The world's biggest philanthropist uges Harvard graduates to use their intellects and the Internet to overcome complexities in tackling global inequities in health, wealth and education. ...READ MORE›

The Six Best (and Worst) Things on the Web This Week

You were busy listening to President Obama talk about health care, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret ...READ MORE›

The 7 Worst Speaker Mistakes

Dynamic communication is one of the keys to success that I discuss in my book Straight Talk for Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need to master at least three basic communication skills: conversation ...READ MORE›

You Never Know Who Can Help With Your Success

This must be my week for experiencing bizarre behavior.  Yesterday, I blogged about an individual who questioned a colleague’s ethics, when he was actually questioning some of the assumptions she made as she collected data on a ...READ MORE›

The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A

How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation.READ MORE›

• Manufacturing Doubt in Product Defense
• How to Pass the BPA Test
• Infographic: The BPA in You

The Making of the 2007 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards

The numbers: 314 nominations, 133 applicants, 43 winners What we required: The executive director's statement explaining mission and strategy; two years of audited financials and tax filings; and a 35-question survey regarding ...READ MORE›

Harvard Goes To Hollywood

Mia Riverton Founder and President Harvardwood Los Angeles, California MIA RIVERTON, 30, is an actress/producer/writer who in 1999 cofounded a volunteer networking group for Harvard grads in the arts, media, and ...READ MORE›

• Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media
• How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups
• Green? Yes. But Just How Sustainable Is Your Product?

A Living or a Life?

Most of us must make a fateful choice: should we devote our time and talent to making a living -- or to getting a life? Mark Albion, who chucked a fast-track career at Harvard Business School, proves that there's a third way.READ MORE›

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way, Part 2

Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class! Can the schools themselves get into the act?READ MORE›

Highest Education

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education has released its Academic Ranking of World Universities. The ranking is based on various indicators of academic and research performance, including Nobel laureates, ...READ MORE›

A New Age of Leadership at Harvard

The naming of the first female president of Harvard University, a place where, as recently as the mid-1970s, women were barred from entering the main door of the faculty club, has prompted the expected chorus of folks wondering if ...READ MORE›

Friday Free-For-All Quick Hits

“If you’re a brand, you’re either right, or you’re gone.” A story in today’s Los Angeles Times on the growing power and importance of private-label merchandise. Relaxation, at last, for Harvard students at Christmas For ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›

H1N1 iPhone Apps Reach Fever Pitch, Prices Are Nothing to Sneeze At

Reports about the new swine flu surfaced last March. By April, there was an App for that. Now there are close to 30 swine flu-related Apps in Apple's Store, the most recent from Harvard Medical School. The HMS Mobile Swine Flu ...READ MORE›

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.READ MORE›

J-Pal’s Most Provocative Inquiries

J-PAL members hope their findings will inspire smarter anti-poverty policy. Here, a look at some of their most provocative inquiries.READ MORE›

• Which Poverty-Fighting Policies Work? J-PAL Has the Answer

Towards a Unified Theory of Black America

March 20, 2005 Toward a Unified Theory of Black America By STEPHEN J. DUBNER oland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black. Yes, 27 is young to be ...READ MORE›

Seven Fascinating Stories About Human Nature

Harvard's shocking fiscal incompetence, a cave of hobos in L.A., murderous robots, and innate female aggression: it's been a fun week in human nature, if you trust the stories that have gone viral on the social news ...READ MORE›

Could Your Team be More Effective With an Odd-Man Out?

It seems intuitive to think that in any group aiming to make the best decisions, equally balanced viewpoints are ideal. But maybe that's too simplistic—a recent study just found that odd-numbered groups made better decisions ...READ MORE›

Ways to get the (snow)ball of talent diversity rolling

Personally I firmly believe that achieving creativity and innovation in science, technology and beyond requires diversity… of thought! If you agree with this statement, let’s see if I can maintain your attention (I know, merely hearing - again - the 'Diversity' word might have turned you off!)READ MORE›

Under Pressure; What a Long, Strange Game It Was; Feng Shui Goes Out the Window

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. Today, check out a riveting documentary, see 100 of the world’s smallest apartments, and learn about living longer.READ MORE›