Which Are The Best Business Schools For The Buck (Spoiler Alert: Not Harvard Or Wharton)

Which Are The Best Business Schools For The Buck (Spoiler Alert: Not Harvard Or Wharton)

Tyler Durden on 05/10/2014 14:32 -0400

As the San Fran Fed recently explained, when it looked at the upside of a college education, it found that the average college graduate earns over “$800,000 more than the average high school graduate by retirement age.” What was ignored is the offsetting cost to this upside in terms of hundreds of thousands of college loans bearing compounding interest that are just as sticky and in increasingly more cases also remain with the graduate until retirement. But what about business schools? For those professionals who have already picked a career in finance or business, and who are willing to spending even more ridiculous amounts of money for a piece of paper and a rolodex, which business schools offer the best bank for the buck? Read more of this post

7 Leadership Lessons Tech CEOs Learned from Their Moms

7 LEADERSHIP LESSONS TECH CEOS LEARNED FROM THEIR MOMS

TO CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY, CHECK OUT THE LESSONS THESE TECH LEADERS LEARNED FROM THEIR BIGGEST INSPIRATIONS: THEIR MOMS.

BY KATHLEEN SHANAHAN

It’s no doubt that the indispensable lessons we’ve learned from our moms are inextricably woven into our daily lives. But for some of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs and founders, it’s also woven into their leadership styles and company cultures. Read more of this post

Celebrate Mother’s Day every day

Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 8:24:48 AM

Celebrate Mother’s Day every day

MOTHER’S Day falls on the second Sunday in May.

For someone who is there for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no pay, what can we give our mothers in return?

All mothers throughout the world are awesome and without them many of us would not be where we are today. Read more of this post

So, who calls the shots?

Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 10:44:45 AM

So, who calls the shots?

BY DATUK JOHNNY MUN

EARLY 1980, a raw and somewhat yokel lad from the backwaters of the East Coast rode his beat-up motorbike to Paramount Gardens in Petaling Jaya in pursuit of a job. Without the faintest clue about what the industry was all about, he knocked on the door of a medium-sized local advertising agency and was elated at the opportunity to meet with the general manager. Read more of this post

In College, Nurturing Matters

In College, Nurturing Matters

MAY 7, 2014

Charles M. Blow

I was a college freshman at Grambling State University in Louisiana. It was the middle of the night, the day before a personal essay was due for a writing seminar. I had put it off for days. I had nothing — nothing but writer’s block. Read more of this post

Can the Kochs Hold Back History? These billionaire industrialists may win in the short term, but in the larger fight against progress and modernity they have already lost

Can the Kochs Hold Back History?

MAY 8, 2014

Timothy Egan

For a time, the press lord William Randolph Hearst did everything in his vast powers to keep the film “Citizen Kane” from finding an audience. He intimidated theater owners, refused to let ads run in his newspapers, and even pressured studio sycophants to destroy the negative. Read more of this post

7 Things Successful People Do During An Afternoon Lull

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7 Things Successful People Do During An Afternoon Lull

JACQUELYN SMITH CAREERS  APR. 30, 2014, 2:41 AM

Successful people take a break and get some fresh air during an afternoon lull.

Do you feel like your ability to focus and your supply of discipline and willpower are always dwindling by 2 p.m.? Read more of this post

How Napkin Sketches During A Pixar Lunch Meeting Led To Four Of The Studio’s Greatest Movies

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How Napkin Sketches During A Pixar Lunch Meeting Led To Four Of The Studio’s Greatest Movies

FRANK PALLOTTA ENTERTAINMENT  APR. 29, 2014, 11:59 PM

For the first time in 9 years a Pixar film will not be on the summer movie schedule.

Fans will have to wait until next year’s “The Good Dinosaur” to enjoy the vibrant colors and heartfelt story that has help make Pixar an animation giant for over a decade. Read more of this post

Caregiver of mentally-ill wife: ‘I prayed that she would die before me’

Caregiver of mentally-ill wife: ‘I prayed that she would die before me’

Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014
The New Paper
By Chai Hung Yin

SINGAPORE – “People told me I gave my wife unconditional love, but it was her who gave me unconditional love.” Read more of this post

We often hear the story of Passover as a tale of liberation, but its richest core truth is one of joyful obedience

A Long Obedience

APRIL 14, 2014

David Brooks

Monday night was the start of Passover, the period when Jews celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from slavery into freedom. Read more of this post

How to survive a “flat management” mutiny

How to survive a “flat management” mutiny

BY DAVID BARRETT, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR 
ON APRIL 14, 2014

Flat management structures are all the rage, and with good reason: innovation is the lifeblood of a startup, and nothing kills innovation like micromanagement. But scaling a flat management structure is harder than it seems. Plenty has already been written about the risks of accidentally creating the stuff of highschool Read more of this post

Steve Jobs’ 13 Most Inspiring Quotes

Steve Jobs’ 13 Most Inspiring Quotes

DYLAN LOVE TECH  APR. 15, 2014, 9:08 AM

With a life as storied as he had, it’s no wonder that Steve Jobs is remembered not only for running an incredibly successful company, but for being tremendously outspoken. Read more of this post

Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure

Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure

DRAKE BAER STRATEGY  APR. 15, 2014, 4:41 AM

About a third of us work in open offices. They’re cheaper than giving everybody their own space. Management gurus tell us they promote “collaboration,” “serendipity,” and other buzzwords.

The only problem is that open plan offices actually make people worse at their jobs. Here’s why:

The open office will make you less satisfied with your work, study finds. Read more of this post

Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives Hardcover

Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives Hardcover

by John D. Mayer  (Author)

John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence—which he calls personal intelligence—to understand our own personality and the personalities of the people around us.  Read more of this post

Sir Terry Leahy: Businesses must adopt a buccaneering mentality

Businesses must adopt a buccaneering mentality

Working with small organisations allows you to concentrate on business itself rather than the wider governance issues at larger companies

Former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy is an ambassador for the International Festival for Business

By Sir Terry Leahy

9:30PM BST 13 Apr 2014

Businesses in the UK are facing more questions than ever before. Emerging from the wreckage brought on by the worst economic crisis in living memory, British companies have been forced to adapt to a new financial landscape – with varying degrees of success. Read more of this post

Upworthy’s Headlines Are Insufferable. Here’s Why You Click Anyway; “Curiosity-gap headlines” hook us in. Here’s what psychologists say about our need to fill in the blanks

Upworthy’s Headlines Are Insufferable. Here’s Why You Click Anyway

“CURIOSITY-GAP HEADLINES” HOOK US IN. HERE’S WHAT PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY ABOUT OUR NEED TO FILL IN THE BLANKS.

The news site Upworthy has earned a reputation for engineering “curiosity gap” headlines–story titles that coerce a click through just the right balance of information and intrigue. Read more of this post

Getting along at work: A primer on personal intelligence; Many challenges at the office come down to managing our own personalities

Getting along at work: A primer on personal intelligence

April 14, 2014: 12:57 PM ET

Many challenges at the office come down to managing our own personalities.

By John D. Mayer

FORTUNE — Most of us would prefer to get through the workday without a scuffle. After all, very few of us are actively looking for a fight. Read more of this post

What Gets in the Way of Listening

What Gets in the Way of Listening

by Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins  |   8:00 AM April 14, 2014

As your role grows in scale and influence, so too must your ability to listen. But listening is one of the toughest skills to master — and requires uncovering deeper barriers within oneself. Read more of this post

Rooting Out Hubris, Before a Fall

Rooting Out Hubris, Before a Fall

by Steven Berglas  |   10:00 AM April 14, 2014

Hubris, the sin of overweening pride or arrogance, may be the most misunderstood disorder an executive will ever be confronted with. It’s not just narcissism; it’s much more dangerous than that. Read more of this post

His devotion to ailing wife will move you to tears

His devotion to ailing wife will move you to tears

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014
The New Paper
By Maureen Koh

SINGAPORE – Devotion is a word not often used these days where love is the common currency of expression between a man and woman. If you want to truly understand it, you need to read this story.

Read more of this post

A nod to the power of humour; In diplomacy, in business communications and in defensive PR, being funny is hugely valuable

April 14, 2014 2:47 pm

A nod to the power of humour

By Sam Leith

In diplomacy, in business communications and in defensive PR, being funny is hugely valuable

To Trinity College, Oxford to give a talk at the UK Speechwriters’ Guild’s annual conference for speechwriters and business communicators. A proper treat. I don’t know what the collective noun for speechwriters is, but here they were – delegates from all over Europe listening to presentations, swapping tips and eating biscuits. Read more of this post

Why We Keep Losing Our Keys: Everyday Memory Lapses Hit at Any Age; Train Your Brain to Find Things Faster

Why We Keep Losing Our Keys

Everyday Memory Lapses Hit at Any Age; Train Your Brain to Find Things Faster

SUMATHI REDDY

April 14, 2014 7:11 p.m. ET

Misplacing keys and phones are the result of every day memory or cognitive lapses – the result of a failure in our working memory – that are the norm. What are some of the factors that can affect our propensity to lose or misplace things? Sumathi Reddy reports. Photo: Getty. Read more of this post

A Day In The Life Of Warren Buffett

A Day In The Life Of Warren Buffett

by VW StaffApril 13, 2014, 3:30 pm

On investing…

How Warren spends his day: Read more of this post

Why start-ups keep shocking big companies; An interview with Eric Ries

Disruptive entrepreneurs: An interview with Eric Ries

Companies are all too aware of the disruptive power of technology. The author of The Lean Startup argues that the competitive reaction of many organizations remains fatally flawed.

April 2014

Renting the means of production Read more of this post

Jewish moms train kids to ask why; Inquisitive mind key to successful education; experts

Updated : 2014-04-13 18:32

Jewish moms train kids to ask why

Inquisitive mind key to successful education; experts
By Kang Hyun-kyung
Korean and Jewish moms have a single-minded devotion to their children’s success and put an overwhelming emphasis on education as a means to achieve it. Read more of this post

Parental Involvement Is Overrated; Most of what we do for our kids at school doesn’t matter

Parental Involvement Is Overrated

By KEITH ROBINSON and ANGEL L. HARRIS

APRIL 12, 2014, 2:32 PM 78 Comments

Most people, asked whether parental involvement benefits children academically, would say, “of course it does.” But evidence from our research suggests otherwise. In fact, most forms of parental involvement, like observing a child’s class, contacting a school about a child’s behavior, helping to decide a child’s high school courses, or helping a child with homework, do not improve student achievement. In some cases, they actually hinder it. Read more of this post

My Ideas, My Boss’s Property; Workers are being forced to sign over their ideas to their employer

My Ideas, My Boss’s Property

By ORLY LOBELAPRIL 13, 2014

SAN DIEGO — THE big story in Silicon Valley these days is a class-action lawsuit alleging that several major tech companies, including Google and Apple, agreed not to try to hire away one another’s employees — thereby hindering workers from seeking out better-paying jobs. Read more of this post

Happiness and Its Discontents; Are you satisfied with your life? How are you feeling? Does either question tell us what we really want to know?

Happiness and Its Discontents

By DANIEL M. HAYBRON

APRIL 13, 2014, 8:00 PM 3 Comments

What does it mean to be happy?

The answer to this question once seemed obvious to me. To be happy is to be satisfied with your life. If you want to find out how happy someone is, you ask him a question like, “Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole?” Read more of this post

Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face and co-founder of Esprit: You have to have people who bring a lot of great energy to their job and make the work and business atmosphere dynamic. This is sort of where art and science mix

Getting the Right Person in the Right Job

APRIL 13, 2014

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE

Doug Tompkins is the founder of The North Face and the co-founder of Esprit. He and his wife, Kris, run Tompkins Conservation, a not-for-profit entity that acquires and restores nature reserves in Chile and Argentina, then donates them to national park systems. Read more of this post

Seven Things Great Employers Do (that Others Don’t)

Seven Things Great Employers Do (that Others Don’t)

by Peter Flade, James Harter and Jim Asplund  |   11:00 AM April 1, 2014

For most people, paid work is unsettling and energy-sapping. Despite employee engagement racing up the priority list of CEOs (see, for example, The Conference Board’s CEO Challenge 2014), ourresearch into workplaces all over the world reveals a sorry state of affairs: workers who are activelydisengaged outnumber their engaged colleagues by an overwhelming factor of 2:1. The good news is that there are companies out there bucking the trend, and we’ve discovered how. Read more of this post