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Well played, Team Ahmed
One question: Who is Ahmed Mohamed’s PR person? The Irving, Texas high school student who freaked out his teachers and was arrested by local police for bringing a home-made clock to school, now has a...
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Harvard prof to big battery makers: Be careful
A Holy Grail of the low-carbon energy economy has been industrial-grade batteries. The thinking is that because electricity derived from wind and the sun is intermittent, the ultimate solution is to...
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A stressful job can take 3 years off your life
People like to complain that their stressful jobs are killing them. A recently released study from Harvard and Stanford found that may be the case, The Washington Post reported. The study shows that...
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This Ivy League School is Turning Out Fashion’s Hottest Startups
Harvard Business School has had a storied reputation for years, but it was never known as a breeding ground for the fashion industry. Now that’s changed. The institution has become a wellspring of...
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What I’ve Learned from Hillary Clinton, the Wellesley Girl
One of the facts in Hillary Rodham Clinton's biography that has always loomed large in my mind is her Wellesley College degree. When I was an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1990s, buses spewed...
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Half of Millennials Believe the American Dream is Dead
Millennials seem to be split on whether the American Dream is alive and kicking, or down and out. In a recent survey among 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, 48%...
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GE Will Relocate to Boston, Says Boston Globe
It appears that Boston and Massachusetts have won the prize: General Electric will move its headquarters from Fairfield, Conn., to the hub, according to the Boston Globe, citing an unnamed official...
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Conan O’Brien on Women in Comedy and Life Lessons Learned
There is no woman anchoring a late-night comedy show, but that doesn’t mean women comedians haven’t made huge strides in the past decade, according to Conan O’Brien. “Diversity is established in...
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Here’s One Solution for Slow, Profit-Sucking Page Loads
Waiting precious seconds for a web page to load isn’t just annoying, it’s costly. An extra second of lag time can cost a company like Amazon as much as $1.6 billion in sales, Fast Company reports. But...
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Merck Just Made a $20 Million Bet On Experimental Harvard Cancer Tech
U.S. pharma giant Merck mrk is cutting a $20 million upfront check to Harvard to license the development rights for several of the university’s experimental cancer drug compounds. The so-called small...
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Here’s How the Chinese Government Really Manipulates Social Media
The Chinese government is responsible for almost half a billion fabricated social media posts each year, Harvard researchers have estimated--while suggesting that the evidence contradicts conventional...
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raceAhead: June 23, 2016
The most recent cover story of the Harvard Business Review, which explores diversity programs in U.S. corporations, is going to be a fascinating resource for raceAhead readers. Some of the findings,...
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#1 Reason that Diversity Programs Fail
The most recent cover story of the Harvard Business Review, which explores diversity programs in U.S. corporations, is going to be a fascinating resource for raceAhead readers. Some of the findings,...
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IBM and Amazon Are Sorta Strange Bedfellows in Blackboard Deal
IBM announced Wednesday that it’s helping Blackboard, the educational tech company that many schools and universities use to devise lesson plans and automate assignments, move to the cloud. What that...
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Leadership Lessons from the Ted Cruz Debacle
You have to admit it takes a certain amount of guts to walk into a someone else's party, hog the spotlight, eat the snacks, insult the host and leave. But that's pretty much what Senator Ted Cruz did...
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Read the Harvard Republican Club’s Letter Blasting Donald Trump
Harvard University is hardly a bastion of conservativism, but the Harvard Republican Club, for the last 128 years, has always endorsed the Republican nominee for president. This year, the Harvard...
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Harvard’s Endowment Just Took Its Biggest Hit Since the Financial Crisis
Harvard University’s investment arm, which oversees America’s largest endowment, on Thursday said its portfolio lost 2% during the 2016 fiscal year, marking the single largest yearly decline since the...
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This Is Jeb Bush’s Latest Gig
From Republican presidential frontrunner to Jimmy Kimmel’s Uber driver, Jeb Bush now has a new job. The former Florida governor will act as a visiting fellow at Harvard University during the fall...
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Here’s Why CNN Became a Lightning Rod for Accusations of Media Bias
Was CNN biased for or against Donald Trump during the election? CNN president Jeff Zucker has heard a lot of criticism from across the political spectrum for his network’s election coverage. Earlier...
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Facebook Partners With 17 Universities to Streamline Research
Facebook’s hardware development division on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Harvard, Princeton and 15 other universities intended to allow swifter collaboration on technology research...
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