Topic: Northwestern University

Business Book Challenge: Update

Last week I issued a challenge.  I wrote: "I have come to the conclusion that most (maybe all) business and strategy books are useless. They over-generalize. They offer little value.  I go in with such high ...READ»

Insight on Insight

A team of cognitive neuroscientists, including two from Northwestern University, have connected an increase in neural activity in the brain's right temporal lobe with problems solved using insight. Mark Jung-Beeman comments that ...READ»

Donald Martin

Associate Dean of Campus MBA Programs at the University of Chicago Graduate School of BusinessREAD»

Six Ways to Avoid Landing in the Product Failure Bin

A decade ago the ability to generate ideas for businesses was a terrific and unique offering, and often a good business. Many companies and consultants were conducting workshops aimed at coming up hundreds of ideas, and ...READ»

• The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand
• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go
• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Work/Life: Breaking Up Is Not So Hard To Do

A new study out of Northwestern University has found that couples tend to overestimate how devastating any potential break-up might be. The researchers have concluded that most of us tend to not realize how well-equipped we are to ...READ»

The Soul of Leadership

Integrating personal and professional development is driving leadership development programming in the public and private sectors. Is B-School the new self help movement?READ»

U.S. and U.K.'s Individuality Is Depressing, but Social Nets May Help

Western society's habits, according to a new survey, are resulting in overly individualistic behavior that makes us depressed. But before that news makes you sad, a different piece of research says the social networking boom may be ...READ»

Be Creative. You Have 30 Seconds.

A right-brain education for career left brainers.READ»

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»

Success Is a Repeat Visitor

Mohanbir Sawhney offers tips on how to better market your Web site.READ»

An eRésumé in Action

It's a dog-byte-dog world for Travis Stratford, a fierce job hunter and eResume believerREAD»

A Crappella

I don't know which I find more amusing: the collegiate culture of a cappella singing -- or the fact that it spills over into business schools, as well. The Summer 2004 edition of Northwestern University's alumni magazine reports that ...READ»

Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

One of the biggest complaints designers in consumer product companies have is that their organization's engineers just don't ‘get' design. That, they would argue, is why so many products--especially in consumer electronics--are so ...READ»

Playing Rookie

Graduating college seniors across the nation share their criteria, ambitions, and priorities for a first job.READ»

Why Design Still Has Such Limited Corporate Impact--and What to Do About It

Despite the best efforts of the design community to the contrary, design is still struggling to influence companies in meaningful ways. The fault lies mostly within the design profession itself, which is unable to supply leadership ...READ»

• Six Ways to Avoid Landing in the Product Failure Bin
• The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand
• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand

What if something you thought you knew to be true, turned out to be exactly the opposite? What if an approach you imagined was working for you was actually working against you? Imagine if it were true, for example, that almost ...READ»

• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go
• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers
• Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

Janie Fossner

College: Northwestern University Major: Economics Hometown: Dix Hills, New York Age: 22 First Job: Teach for America in Oakland, California Job search advice for the Class of 2000: "Start early, talk to people who are already ...READ»

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»

Play Economist-y for Me

Dave Pollard recently turned me on to two colleagues at the Economic Policy Institute who maintain their own blogs. Adam Hersh, a researcher at the institute, maintains Globalize This!, which focuses on "unconventional wisdom on the ...READ»

Best Technology: Just-in-Time Learning

Working smarter is a full-time job -- and the lessons keep changing. For a glimpse of the future, audit the classes at these four learning centers.READ»

Can Positivity Increase Productivity?

Can a positive frame of mind and emotional state improve an individual's performance on the job and in relationshipsour emotions are connected to our outlooks via a cause-and-effect relationship. The answer is yes! As positivity (as defined as love, joy, gratitude, serenity, hope and optimism) flows through our hearts, it simultaneously broadens our minds, allowing us to see the forest and the trees.READ»

In the Form of a Question

Discover potential career ideas, personal leadership strengths, and "Star Wars" characters you most resemble using these online quizzes. Are you in touch with your inner Chewbacca? Find out here.READ»

Unfair Advantage

If you discovered an Unfair Advantage to stand out over 97% of your competition, would you use it? Who wouldn't, right? In today's job search, the name of the game today is to get noticed…and 97% of the resumes out there ...READ»

Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Design thinking is currently an "It" concept, the topic of countless books and blogs and conference panels. While it can mean a lot of different things to different people, for me, design thinking is a methodology, a tool, ...READ»

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»