Topic: University of Virginia

My Favorite Bookmarks: Claire Zion

Picks from the editorial director of iPublish.comREAD»

Three Ways Hospitals Are Moving From Analog to Digital

That hospitals need to embrace health IT is a no-brainer. If Electronic Health Records, for instance, eliminated as many as 200,000 drug mistakes it would save a combined $1 billion or more each year. Congress has dedicated $30 ...READ»

Interactive Art Done Right

Maybe you've had the opportunity to visit a so-called interactive art installation. If so, you were probably disappointed: Too often, those projects end up barely working, with fiddly controls and baffling lag times that ruin any ...READ»

Husk Power Systems: Rice-Fired Electricity

Founders: Manoj Sinha & Chip RanslerREAD»

• Edward Norton's $9,000,000,000 Housing Project (that's $9 Billion)
• A High Point
• Eureka!: Social Enterprises of the Year

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.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 'Green Dean' Has a Blueprint for Sustainability

William McDonough has designed award-winning buildings for Nike and the Gap - and redesigned environmentalism.READ»

You Are Not Sleepy!

Maybe you don't need more sleep, just better sleep.READ»

Download Your Way to an MBA

It doesn't cost $40,000. It doesn't take two years. And you're never late to class.READ»

Going Global: America's Christians After George W. Bush

That America continues to look inward is no secret. While Americans may be among the most info-saturated people in the world, their knowledge of the world around them continues to dwindle. Few Americans have traveled the globe, ...READ»

Kindle 3 Rumors Heat Up: 9.7-Inch Screen, Full Browser

The news about the upcoming Amazon big-screen e-reader is developing fast: Just yesterday we heard it was definitely due, and there's an Amazon press conference scheduled tomorrow. But there's still time for the rumors to develop, ...READ»

Masters of Design: Maurice Cox

Mayor of Charlottesville, VirginiaREAD»

5 Ways Design Thinking Can Raise the Collective IQ of Your Business

A panel held as part of National Design Week addressed ways to integrate designers, and design thinking, into organizations that usually resist change.READ»

Two New Books You Should Read

I’ve just gotten done reading a couple of new books. The first, Where to Go From Here, by Douglas Campbell III, is a primer on how to manage your business -- and yourself. To Campbell, the personal is one with the ...READ»

Rice Power: Cisco, DFJ Award Seed Money to Husk Power Systems

Husk Power Systems, a startup that turns rice husks into energy, beat out over 1,000 competitors to win the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition.READ»

The Six Best (and Worst) Things on the Web This Week

You were busy listening to President Obama talk about health care, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret ...READ»

RFID, Data Centers, WiMx will save the economy - with good engineers

Many of you, like me, went to great schools with very talented people. We have a tremendous amount to be thankful for; our health, our freedom, our families and the God-given talents with which we were born. We’re morally obligated ...READ»

Way Behind The Music

For John Legend, Gwen Stefani, and hundreds of other talents, Musictoday is the invisible machine keeping fans pumped and the money rolling in.READ»

What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Should you go to business school? If so, how do you get in? And if you go, what will you take away? If you want to pass the B-school test, take a lesson from some B-school students.READ»

Top Jobs of 2008

What are the top jobs for 2008? FastCompany.com crunched the numbers, spoke to the experts, and came up with the job outlook for 2008 and beyond.READ»

• A Guide to Layoff Survival
• Courting Your Career
• The Top 8 Jobs of 2008

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

First Companies Are Serious Business

Finding a perfect first job sometimes means starting a first company.READ»

Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networking

Given the rising popularity of social networks, it’s little surprise that there have been several high-profile breaches of security on sites as huge as MySpace and Facebook. With over 350 million members combined, all it takes is one single person to cause a major damage. Learn how the networks are dealing with the breaches -- and how to protect yourself.READ»

• 7 Tips for Protecting Your Identity Online
• Fast Security for a Wired World

School For Leaders

Mexico's Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership wants to create a new generation of leaders by reinventing what leaders learn. Here's what it's teaching.READ»

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unveils Kindle DX in New York

At an event in New York City today, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced Kindle DX, a large-screen version of the popular e-reader device priced at $489. It will ship this summer, and is available for pre-order today. ...READ»