Topic: University of Michigan

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»

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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»

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»

Insight and Futuring Manager

Job Titles of the Future: Amy King SchindlerREAD»

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»

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»

People Who Need People

Helping leaders navigate the strategy-execution gap.READ»

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»

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»

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»

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»

Chief Energizing Officer

Job Titles of the Future: Ken HawkREAD»

Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

Radio Free Business

Shortwave is back.READ»

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»

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»

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»

Queen for the Day

Job Titles of the Future: Pookie MelbergREAD»

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»

Larry Brilliant

Executive director of Google.orgREAD»

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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»

Q&A: C.K. Prahalad - Pyramid Schemer

Three years ago, C.K. Prahalad unearthed the "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid." It is, he says, still very real.READ»

Leadership: When to Say Good-Bye

Tens of millions of Baby Boomers will be retiring over the next decade. Organizations are working diligently to plan for their replacements as leaders as well as hiring new recruits to fill new positions that open up due to ...READ»

A Piece of Work

Three decades after the groundbreaking book Work in America, its authors tell us how things really turned out.READ»

A Rare Branding Opportunity

Yesterday's New York Times snuck a sensible business story into the sports section of all places. Considering the rare opportunity afforded by this year's Super Bowl numerals -- XL -- John Branch tapped several branding and marketing ...READ»