The best way to think of your time at a startup is as a college education.
One of the best decisions you can make in your professional life is joining a startup. Before you start you want to figure out what you want to get out of the experience.
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Chemistry professor Robert Parson instructs his students in a lecture hall classroom during a chemistry class at Colorado University.
An annual meeting of the The American Anthropological Association is held to showcase research from around the world. Thousands of other anthropologists usually pay $650 for airfare, $400 for three nights in a “student” hotel, $70 for membership, and $94 for admission. The latter two fees are student rates. If you are unemployed or underemployed scholar, the rates would double.
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The decision to finish an MBA can be difficult.
Twenty-seven year old Natasha Pecor just finished her first year in the MBA program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. But after interning this summer at Freestyle Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm that finances early-stage startups, she may not pursue a second year.
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Incentives like employee bonus pay, app badges, student grades, and even lunch with President Obama are all the rage. Despite their widespread use, most research finds that incentives are terrible at improving performance in the long-run on anything but mindless rote tasks, because the fixation on prizes clouds our creative thinking. However, a new Harvard study of teachers found that a novel approach to incentive scould dramatically improve student performance: give teachers a reward upfront and threaten to take it away if performance doesn’t actually improve. Exploiting the so-called “loss-aversion” tendency could open the door to creative incentivizing for software designers and managers.
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An agronomist measures and records corn growth and other processes.
Many U.S. colleges see a boom in enrollment for agriculture as students flock to study subjects they feel offer a clear path to a job on graduation.
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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) presents findings from a two-year investigation into the for-profit college industry.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Monday unveiled an exhaustive report on a two year investigation of the for-profit higher education industry. The report on the colleges’ business practices, highlighting schools that charge excessively high tuition and shortchange academic investments in order to maximize revenues.
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In the last week, more universities signed on with Coursera.
Free online courses from prestigious universities were a rarity a few months ago. Now, they are the cause for announcements every few weeks, as a field suddenly studded with big-name colleges and competing software platforms evolves with astonishing speed.
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Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses.
There is a shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education. Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. In the fall, Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally.
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Norway ranks number 1 as the best place in the world to be a mom.
The joy of motherhood is a universal emotion no matter where you are in the world. However, the conditions in which women raise their children vary from country to country. As part of the 2012 State of the World’s Mothers report, Save the Children has released their 13th annual Mothers’ Index.
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“Our problems are not caused by a shortage of scientists and engineers.”
Recently, Slate published an article on science and technology education in the U.S. The title: “America Needs More Scientist and Engineers.”
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As colleges try to deliver more education at the same price, schools will move into the crowded and distractable world of the Web.
Last year, the University of Phoenix enlisted renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen to record a lecture. The university reserved a harbor-view room for Christensen and populated it with young people, so that the camera operators could record their reactions.
Before he began to speak, Christensen noticed that the audience appeared unusually engaged and attractive.
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Data shows clearly that we are not even close to the all time peak of misuse of prescription stimulants by high-school students.
According to a front page story in Sunday’s New York Times, there’s an epidemic in America’s selective high schools: high-achieving students under pressure to succeed are increasingly abusing stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall, which they consider as essential as SAT tutors for getting into an Ivy League college. But the data from national surveys on stimulant use tells a very different story.
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