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CRM May 2014 Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
Entrepreneur August 2009 Jason Meyers |
The New Orleans Saints In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a new entrepreneurial culture is taking hold in New Orleans. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 7, 2011 Carmen Nobel |
Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course Students study the quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face when trying to realize the dream of launching a start-up -- from deciding when to start the company to learning how to make a graceful exit. |
Entrepreneur August 2010 Jason Daley |
The Champion Drew Brees led the New Orleans Saints to their first-ever Super Bowl. Now he's backing local entrepreneurship and the city's economic revival. |
Entrepreneur July 2006 Nichole L. Torres |
Girls Club Today's college women are gearing up to be tomorrow's entrepreneurs. |
This Old House January 2008 |
Non-Profits Help New Orleans Rebuild There are many worthy organizations working to provide housing solutions in New Orleans. |
Fast Company November 2010 Stephanie Schomer |
Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide. |
Financial Advisor June 2012 Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Class Act More business schools are offering corporate responsibility and SRI components. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Jason Daley |
The Union of Town and Gown To block brain drain and enrich economies, more universities are linking up in creative entrepreneurial initiatives. |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Jones & Aaronson |
Showing Some Class Universities reach out to those affected by Katrina. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 9, 2015 Michael Blanding |
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government In a new Harvard Business School course on public entrepreneurship, Mitchell B. Weiss explores how fresh thinkers can work with -- and within -- the halls of government. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
Job Journal November 23, 2008 Shelly Cryer |
A New Day in the Nonprofit Sector The dynamic, evolving, and rapidly expanding nonprofit sector offers abundant career opportunities -- and plenty of jobs providing a livable salary. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
Fast Company November 22, 2011 Anya Kamenetz |
General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few In the future of education, some General Assembly may be required. General Assembly was founded in January 2011 by four friends as a campus for technology, design, and entrepreneurship. |
Fast Company Jane Porter |
One Small Step For Google, One Giant Leap For Empowering Girls To Code With $1 million in funding from Google's Made With Code initiative, nonprofit DonorsChoose.org is rewarding teachers with money when they get four or more female students to complete a coding class online. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
Fast Company Peg Tyre |
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Education Some companies on the list include DonorsChoose.org, Inkling, and Kaplan. |
AFP eWire December 19, 2005 |
Young People's Volunteerism on the Rise More young people in America volunteer than adults, and a strong majority of them are interested in continuing to volunteer well into the future, according to two different surveys. |
Entrepreneur October 2006 Nichole L. Torres |
Get Schooled An annual ranking of entrepreneurship programs shows you which schools get students into the entrepreneurial spirit. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
Information Today August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
Entrepreneur April 2008 Nichole L. Torres |
Hit the Books Earning an MBA is a great way to beef up your business know-how, whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned business owner. Check out The Princeton Review's list of top-ranked schools to find the program that's best for you. |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
Entrepreneur August 2010 |
Speaking of Crazy Ideas The crazy ideas of these sports entrepreneurs paid off big. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
CIO July 27, 2012 Lauren Brousell |
NKU Grads Get High-Tech Education, Jobs Northern Kentucky University built a new high-tech building, Griffin Hall, to host students in tech-related majors and the employers who may hire them |
Reason March 2006 Ronald Bailey |
Breaking Rent New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas apparently wants to finish the job begun by Hurricane Katrina. He is planning to institute rent controls on the houses and apartments that remain. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2011 Karen Harries-Rees |
European doctoral students struggle to find funding Many European doctoral science students are failing to find funding to cover their research, a new survey finds. |
Information Today September 29, 2011 |
Gale Introduces Gale Business Insights: Global The resource is designed for undergraduate and graduate business school students, as well as academic faculty, librarians, and professional researchers. |
Entrepreneur April 2009 David Port |
The Best Places for Entrepreneurs to Learn Business schools still hold the top spot, but there are other places for you to learn. |
Entrepreneur October 2008 Nichole L. Torres |
Launch Pad to Success Thousands of colleges are getting down to business, turning today's students into tomorrow's business leaders. This list of best schools for entrepreneurs shows which ones make the grade. |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program. |
Entrepreneur May 2004 Mark Henricks |
Extra Credit Find out which schools make the grade in our 2nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities. |
AFP eWire June 7, 2004 |
U.S. Nonprofit Employment Rate Increasing Faster Than Business, Government Employees at nonprofits now represent 9.5 percent -- 12.5 million individuals -- of all employees in the United States. The total number of employees working in the nonprofit sector has doubled in the last 25 years. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 |
Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad |
Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be. |
Foundation News & Commentary Nov/Dec 2005 Allan R. Clyde |
A Conversation with Ben Johnson An interview with the Greater New Orleans Foundation President and CEO on the status of the foundation, race and class issues, and the opportunities facing philanthropy in the rebuilding of this community. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Megan Malone |
The New School Today's financial planning graduates bring more than just an education. |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Good Works -- With A Business Plan Just a decade ago, there were virtually no business school courses or student projects on social entrepreneurship. Today most top business schools have both. |
Job Journal August 8, 2010 |
Personal Branding Employ marketing principles to promote yourself as a distinctive job candidate. |
Chemistry World December 19, 2012 Laura Howes |
Home office to help student job seekers In a speech last week, the UK's home secretary announced that from April 2013, all international PhD students will be allowed to remain in the country for one year to find work or start a business after their course has finished. |
Entrepreneur April 2005 Mark Henricks |
Honor Roll By teaching everything from planning to perseverance, the entrepreneurship programs at the schools in our 3rd Annual Top 100 Colleges and Universities give their students a competitive advantage in the real world. |