Topic: University of Pittsburgh

Horseradish To Clean Up Risky Carbon Nanotube Spills

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 6:30 AM

Carbon nanotubes are one of the nanotechnology wonder materials of the near future, used in electronics, optics, for super-strong materials and as novel semiconductors, but there are emerging concerns about the environmental and ...READ»

CRITICAL FEW | Comment

Identifying and Acting Upon the Elusive “Critical Few”

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 83
Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Process improvement consultants often talk about the importance of focusing your efforts on the critical few—those 3-4 things that, as a business, you can (or can’t) live without. Everyone agrees that process improvement is ...READ»

CAREER ADVICE | Comment

Is having a long work commute such a bad thing?

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 83
Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM

If you would have asked me that question when gas prices were not only through the roof, but also through the cumulonimbus clouds (take that 8th grade science class!!), I would have likely had a much different response. But ...READ»

CUSTOMER FEEDBACK | Comment

Sharing negative customer feedback with your team

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 80
Mon May 18, 2009 at 8:30 AM

When it comes to customer feedback, you usually only hear from the people who really love you or the ones who really hate you but generally not from those who land somewhere in the middle. And, somehow, the negative always seems to ...READ»

CAREER ADVICE | Comment

Making the Most Out of a Rejection

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 76
Thu Jun 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM

168 people applied for the opening. We interviewed 5 which means, if you do the math, that we rejected 163. Our policy was to only notify those who were interviewed but not selected—potentially leaving those 163 in limbo as to their ...READ»

ETHICS | 2 comments

Ethics on the Web

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 75
Mon Oct 17, 2005 at 10:07 AM

Today's Wall Street Journal sports a special section on corporate governance and ethics at work. On the inside front page, Barry Mitnick, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business, offers a ...READ»

EMPLOYEE MORALE | 4 comments

Employee Incentives on a Shoe String Budget

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 70
Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM

"No pay raises this year." "Everyone is going to have to take 10 days of unpaid vacation." "Everyone is going to have to take 10 days of unpaid vacation and a 1% (or more) pay cut." I don't know about you, ...READ»

BRAND BUILDING. BRAND EXTENSION | Comment

Branding Yourself as a One-Trick Pony

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 61
Tue Nov 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM

Gone are the days of companies branding themselves as specialty retailers. Dunkin' Donuts now offers pizza, Radio Shack seems to sell pretty much everything but radios, and Linens 'n Things is closing its doors. To survive, they must overcome the very brand that's made them famous.READ»

MANAGEMENT | Comment

Do-It-Yourself Performance Reviews

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 60
Tue Aug 26, 2008 at 6:24 PM

In high school, the thought of giving yourself the grade you thought you deserved always sounded too good to be true. Most of my friends, myself included, would in all likelihood lobby for an “A” without giving it much thought. ...READ»

CAREER ADVICE | 1 comment

Keeping Your Boss in the Loop Without Causing Information Overload

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 59
Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 4:50 PM

This was something I didn’t think I struggled with, until a recent staff meeting when day my boss asked me for an update of how things were going in my department. I’m pretty sure I started out on the right path, but, as I ...READ»

BANGKOK | Comment

Back in the U.S.S.A

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 58
Thu Dec 4, 2008 at 12:15 AM

I'm happy to report that I arrived safely back in the states yesterday (Tuesday) after a two day bus/van trip from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur and a 20+ hour flight. For now, I've got to focus on filling out one heck of complicated ...READ»

PRODUCTIVITY | Comment

Productivity and the Lost Art of Prompt Follow Up

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 53
Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 7:07 PM

Staying productive while waiting for people to follow up, especially when they possess information I need to move forward, is something I struggle with. Actually, it’s more the loose ends that their lack of responsiveness cause ...READ»

HEATHER HUHMAN | Comment

Leveraging References, Referrals and Inside Connections

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 52
Mon Aug 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM

I recently had the opportunity to serve as a panelist for the References, Referrals and Inside Connections: How to Obtain, Maintain & Use Them to Your Advantage webinar organized by Heather Huhman, entry-level careers columnist ...READ»

CAMPUS RECRUITING | Comment

Balancing massive headcount reductions with campus recruiting

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 46
Sun Feb 1, 2009 at 10:44 AM

In my current role as Director of MBA career services, I am charged with the difficult task of trying to convince companies that haven’t recruited with us before to hire our students for full-time or intern positions. Even ...READ»

BRUNNER ADVERTISING | 1 comment

Personal Branding Lessons from an Advertising Exec

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 40
Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 8:57 AM

One of the cool things about working at a university (and in particular a business school) is having a chance to sit in on presentations by business leaders from an almost limitless number of industries. Each has their own unique ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | Comment

Fast Pack 2000

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 38
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:10 AM

Can hope scale up? Can change scale down? Can leadership grow from the grass roots? What's the meaning of "Dotcom Mania"? Some of the best brains in the Fast Company community convened on Nantucket for the roundtable of the year.READ»

BUSINESS TRAVEL | Comment

Syncing Business Trips Using Google Calendar

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 37
Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM

I got an email from my friend Jeff about using Google calendar to input/track his trips and those of friends and colleagues when he’s traveling with his job or even while he’s on vacation. As has happened to most of us when ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | 7 comments

Granular Thinking is Not a Crime

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Sep 8, 2008 at 8:25 AM

I once worked for a boss who accused me of being granular or always looking at things from “in the weeds.” Ironically, that couldn’t have been further from the truth and maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m no longer there. ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | 1 comment

The Return of Customer Service? What a Novel Idea.

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Mar 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM

Just over a year ago, I would walk into a big box home improvement retailer to pick up supplies for a project and, instead of seeing sales associates eager to assist me with my home improvement questions, I saw tumbleweeds. Okay, so ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | 2 comments

Can your business win with “C-level” players?

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 34
Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 8:08 AM

Something I hadn’t given much thought until a consultant mentioned it during a training session last week. In his mind, if you’re going to “win,” the only way you can do so is if your team is made up of entirely “A” and ...READ»

CAREERS | 2 comments

Global Shmobal

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 33
Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 4:09 PM

Globalization, global perspective, global business…it seems like every business wants to jump on the global bandwagon but yet, for some reason, international graduate students continue to struggle finding jobs in the US. Even ...READ»

JOHN EDWARDS | Comment

Social Media and Authenticity

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 32
Sun Mar 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM

I was listening to a radio segment on the subject of Twitter and one of the guests on the show mentioned receiving a Tweet from John Edwards at the exact second he was standing at a podium delivering a speech. Needless to say, that ...READ»

DAN SCHAWBEL | 2 comments

Me 2.0-the personal branding playbook

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 29
Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM

Whether you’re looking for your next job, positioning yourself for a promotion, or hoping to start your own business, your ultimate success will begin or end with personal branding. Targeted at college students and young ...READ»

CAREER DEVELOPMENT | 10 comments

Tax the Beautiful to Feed the Ugly?!

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 29
Wed Dec 5, 2007 at 2:11 PM

I read a BBC article yesterday on how 'Ugly people in Argentina are striking back.' A man named Gonzalo Otalora has been "ugly" all his life and he's taken it upon himself to bridge the gap between the beautiful and the ugly so to ...READ»

BRAZEN CAREERIST | Comment

Brazen Careerist Launch: Twitter meets Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Gen Y…and it’s about time.

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 23
Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM

The folks at Brazen Careerist realize college students and young professionals aren’t always able to pull from years of previous work experience when marketing themselves to potential employers. And that often puts them at a ...READ»

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