Topic: University of Pennsylvania

Piggybacking on Other Brands

Here's a novel shot at a new restaurant concept: An eatery devoted to serving breakfast cereal. Cereality, a Boulder, Colorado, company this Wednesday opens its first full scale, sit-down restaurant, near the campus of the University ...READ»

Jason Kane

College: University of Pennsylvania Major: Psychology Hometown: Trenton, New Jersey Age: 22 First Job: Indefinite To begin, my foremost priority in choosing a first job is getting enough money so that I don't have to live at home ...READ»

Kate Lee

College: University of Pennsylvania Major: Art History Hometown: Warren, New Jersey Age: 22 First Job: Traveling to London this fall and working there for six months. I had vaguely always thought that my primary criterion for a ...READ»

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»

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»

Six Degrees of Sustainability: The Hottest Schools for Environmental Studies

In January, we reported on the 10 green jobs poised to carry us through the next decade. Five months later, the demand for those jobs is still growing strong--President Obama recently pledged $500 million for environmental job ...READ»

All-Terrain Tribot Rolls Where Man Fears To Tread

The Tribot may look a little like something you'd find barring traffic at a construction site, but actually it's a sophisticated robot designed to gather data for climate and environmental research from difficult-to-reach ...READ»

Cultural Latency

There is a correlation between the amount of time it takes to distribute something, and the amount of time it takes for that thing to have an effect, and consequently the amount of time that thing stays relevant and ...READ»

Harvard and Wharton Deans Try to Undermine MBA Rankings

These two top business schools will no longer provide BusinessWeek the opportunity to survey their graduating classes. Why? The deans basically say that rankings are crass and misleading. The real story, however, is quite ...READ»

Fast Talk: Philly Soul

Ivory towers no longer, universities today drive the vitality of their communities, says Penn president Amy Gutmann.READ»

Playing Rookie

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

The New Face of Office Politics

Sure, the new world of business values what you know over whom you know. But, argues influential teacher and consultant John Eldred, you still have to navigate the political realities of your organization.READ»

Class Acts

Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation. Here's our Class of 2005.READ»

Pointy-Haired Bosses? Please.

Late last month, CNN Money published an expose of bosses who are also idiots. In addition to Jeanne Sahadi's jokey outline of executive foibles, the essay offers one piece of advice: Get over it or get out. That's a little ...READ»

The Body: Bulletproof

If you want to live forever, change your skin color, or just firm up those abs from the comfort of your own couch, you might be in luck: Gene therapy is on its way--and it's coming fast.READ»

Applaud: Congratulations, Graduates!

It's diploma season again, which means not only that a new batch of students will soon be facing the reality of the workplace but also that universities will be handing out honorary degrees. A look at several honorees -- and how they earned their doctorates.READ»

Honorary Degrees for Michael R. Bloomberg and Other Luminaries

It's diploma season again, which means not only that a new batch of students will soon be facing the reality of the workplace but also that universities will be handing out honorary degrees. A look at several honorees -- and how they earned their doctorates.READ»

• Now June 2008
• Numerology: A Hill of Beans

Home for the Holidays

How do you stay up when one of you is down?READ»

The Secret To A Successful Career: Being Tall and Attractive?

n an ideal world, people are hired and promoted because of their abilities, competence, attitudes and interpersonal skills--right? Maybe not.Despite how far we've come in the areas of recruiting, selecting and developing people in organizations, there's evidence that we still judge people based on what some would consider superficial criteria. In fact, there's lots of evidence to show that people have gained success in their careers because they are taller and more attractive. READ»

Feedback: Become the Person People Work For

I grew up in northern Virginia, about 10 miles from AOL headquarters. At age 15, I taught myself Java and C++. At age 16, during two summers, I worked for the now-dead boom startup Tidalwave Telephone (at various times also named ...READ»

This Week in Marketing Ethics

Don Draper aside, we marketing types do at times look into our souls and make an effort at doing the right thing.READ»

Act II Generation

The economic downturn hasn't dissuaded young entrepreneurs and recent graduates from conquering the new economy -- it has only made them more prepared.READ»

coping - Martin Seligman

"How you handle adversity in the workplace tends to have much more impact on your career than how you handle the good stuff."READ»

University Sprawl

My college, Columbia University, is planning a takeover in West Harlem. Within 25 years, University officials say, Columbia will expand with a new, $7 billion, 17-acre, Renzo Piano-designed satellite campus in "Manhattanville." ...READ»

Fast Talk: What I Learned on <em>The Apprentice</em>

You're fired! With the finale of season three this month, five people who've heard that signature Trumpism share what they learned about image, experience, role models, decision making, and leveraging free publicity from being on The Donald's hit show. And -- surprise! -- Trump himself had little to teach.READ»