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Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ MORE

Insight and Futuring Manager

Job Titles of the Future: Amy King SchindlerREAD MORE

Retirement and Depression

The average age of retirement has been declining for several decades and now is at about age 62. Of course, not everyone intends to retire at that age. (Count me among those who do not.) One of the reasons I wrote 225 Best Jobs for ...READ MORE

What do you do?

Why are you on the website, what do you hope to get out of it, what do you do (job, student, etc.), or what are your interests? I'll start: My name is Erin, I'm a sophomore (almost junior) at the University of Michigan, ...READ MORE

Friendly Hire

OK, so being bald and beautiful doesn't always work in Seth's favor. Let's see if being friendly does. While FC Now readers debate whether love truly is the killer app, researchers at the University of Michigan have found that ...READ MORE

The Digital Experience

W. Russell Neuman is a professor of media technology at the University of Michigan. Formerly, he worked as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His GEL presentation touched on the true ...READ MORE

People Who Need People

Helping leaders navigate the strategy-execution gap.READ MORE

Scientists Say Urban Living Makes You Stupid

It's official: Living in a city is bad for your brain--or so says some new research by University of Michigan scientists. Specifically, the team of psychologists found that being in an urban environment depresses memory performance ...READ MORE

The Untapped, $5 Trillion Market

C. K. Prahalad, the University of Michigan strategy guru and author of the best seller "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," has lately taken some flack for his have-it-both-ways proposition that multinational corporations ...READ MORE

Law School Grants for Single Mothers

A law degree is probably the most amazing form of qualification both in professional and personal level, but at the same time is one of the most expensive forms of education. READ MORE

Innovating for the Purple Consumer

Since the 2004 election, I've been hearing a worried buzz about the Red-Blue divide in the United States. For marketers and innovators, the X factor is what this divide reflects -- or does not reflect -- about consumers' everyday ...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

Chief Energizing Officer

Job Titles of the Future: Ken HawkREAD MORE

Tactical Strategies

Overview   Lyons Wealth Management presents Good Harbor Financial, a firm focused on innovative asset management programs. The Good Harbor Financial philosophy is that disciplined, model-driven investment approach that ...READ MORE

Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ MORE

Truly Tackling "Social Media" Will Require a Deep Shift in Corporate Logic

I've consistently seen conjecture, and occasionally even numbers, to back up the point that recessions drive innovation. In particular, one of the oft-repeated "truths" is that a down economy clears us of outmoded thinking as ...READ MORE

Suburbia R.I.P.

Does the downturn spell the beginning of the end for suburbia? Some experts say yesterday's cul-de-sac is tomorrow's ghost town.READ MORE

Radio Free Business

Shortwave is back.READ MORE

The Memristor Revolution: Chips Can Work Like Brains Too

Memristors: If you don't know about 'em, you certainly will over the next few years. We're probably not talking about the same kind of revolution as the transistor sparked off, but new research has shown they can mimic brain cells, so ...READ MORE

Buy.ology: Why We Buy What We Do

It seems that I spend a great deal of time these days talking about the subconcious emotional drivers of designs. It turns out that there are very good reasons we all "buy" what we do. Reasons that are tied into our biology, ...READ MORE

5 Habits of Highly Reliable Organizations

The worst thing about recent business scandals is their lingering aftereffect: How can you move forward when you don't know who you can depend on? Karl E. Weick says the answer is inside highly reliable organizations. For them, uncertainty is the ''good stuff.''READ MORE

Gates Foundation Funds Insecticide-Treated Scarves, Reversible Male Contraceptives

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is known for funding innovative projects. The latest round of 78 grants doesn't disappoint, with recipients across 18 countries and six continents receiving $100,000 apiece for inventions that ...READ MORE

Queen for the Day

Job Titles of the Future: Pookie MelbergREAD MORE

Contributors

Jesse Frohman He earned a degree in business at the University of Michigan, but Jesse Frohman found his métier when he returned to his native New York to work for the legendary photographer Irving Penn. Since then, he has ...READ MORE

RVing

Excellent piece in today's New York Times, "Over the Top and On the Road," about 38th Annual Pennsylvania R.V. and Camping Show in Hershey, PA. If you've never visited GoRVing.com, do so, as you're in for a real experiential treat. ...READ MORE