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...options they may not have considered. “I think that a lot of people think about finance and consulting when they enter Harvard, but not about alternative career paths,” Liu said. The talk kicked off with introductions, as the guest speakers described their eclectic array of current jobs—from president of a media production company to business director of the New England Patriots. Despite their diverse work experiences, the women touched on some common themes, particularly that of following one’s passion. “I almost feel like you don?...
...website, and the solvers go to work, with a cash reward at stake for the right answer. Not only does the InnoCentive method save on costs by allowing companies to outsource some of their R and D, but it also mines a sprawling network of experts from a diverse array of fields, raising the chance that someone might come up with a true out of-the-box solution. That's the sort of digital crowd-sourcing that helped create Wikipedia. [Hear Don Tapscott, the author of the book Wikinomics, talk about the effect of such mass collaboration on innovation...
...imagination crisis." Solving global warming will require changes in the way we live and use energy, but even more vital are technological leaps in clean technology that must be every bit as revolutionary as Edison's incandescent bulb. Spencer Trask and the Rockefeller Foundation have inundated InnoCentive with an array of challenges in clean tech - including a call for a new kind of electricity-free light bulb that would make Edison's invention obsolete. "We want the kind of challenges that will make a difference in the world," says Spradlin...
...universality of music.A similar contagion spread during the performance of the Kuumba Singers, a large-scale choir that explores the musical tradition of African folk songs, spirituals, and gospel. Their performance featured three distinct vocal groups, whose juxtaposed parts harmonized perfectly.Throughout the evening, Hancock shared a diverse array of personal anecdotes about everything from his wife, whom he met in Asia, to his Irish American roots, “where,” the musician joked, “I got my rhythm from.” Hancock also tried his hand at salsa dancing, Asian fan dancing, and African...
...Finally, with nothing left to lose, the actual Hillary Clinton came back, in a dizzying array of moods and aspects that seemed to confuse the press. She was gracious toward Obama at the end of the Texas debate. She was furious - "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" - in Ohio. She was sarcastic, mocking Obama's high-flown rhetoric, in Rhode Island. And she was a tough-minded, gritty, independent woman throughout, a woman on her own, as so many working women find themselves these days, cleaning up the messes that their feckless men have made. I cannot emphasize enough how important...