The Art World the Millennial Way
Much as the wine industry is currently transitioning from catering to highbrow Boomers to understanding Millennial-tailored (less exclusive) tastes, the art world is in a stage of reinvention. Once considered…
A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish it Meant More
“….half of those surveyed recently by The Chronicle and American Public Media’s Marketplace said they had trouble finding recent graduates qualified to fill positions at their company or organization. Nearly…
Executives Say the 21st Century Needs More Skilled Workers
“As the U.S. economy begins to show signs of improvement, executives say they need a workforce fully equipped with skills beyond just the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic (the…
Liberal Arts and Humanities Education: Who is Right – Bill Gates, or the Late Steve Jobs?
“My research team at Duke and Harvard surveyed 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product engineering at 502 technology companies. We found that they tended to be highly…
New Models of Arts Leadership: Tapping into the Millennials
Courtney Mersereau from BCA member company RBC Wealth Management is an example of a Greater Portland young professional eager to help in the arts. She is currently on the executive…
Reopening a Door to the Young
I’ve been consulting for more than four decades. Twenty or 30 years ago, a hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company was much more willing to give, say, a dance…
Conscious Capitalism
Before I co-founded Whole Foods Market, I attended two universities, where I accumulated about 120 hours of electives, primarily in philosophy, religion, history, world literature, and other humanities. I only…
Drive (2009) by Daniel Pinks
In business, we tend to obsess over the “how”—as in “Here’s how to do it.” Yet we rarely discuss the “why”—as in “here’s why we’re doing it.” But it’s often…
Tony Wagner on needs and profit
The greatest innovations of the 21st century will be those that have helped to address human needs more than those that had created the most profit. (6)
Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities
Building on the record and cumulative experiences of this co-operation, the Haniel Foundation is aiming to focus and re-align the strengths of its engagement in higher education. The European Haniel…
Reich on Philosophy
[This introductory Philosophy course] was part of a broader Harvard intellectual training that provided my most important training for subsequent careers in risk arbitrage investment on Wall Street and in…
Butterfield on Backgrounds
The message [i]s that entrepreneurism is a good avenue for exercising the kinds of things you learn with a humanities degree… I think if you have a good background in…
Fiorina on Valuable Courses
The most valuable class I took at Stanford was not Econ 51. It was a graduate seminar called, believe it or not, “Christian, Islamic and Jewish Political Philosophies of the…
Eisner on English Majors
I think maybe the best education, or the best foundation for business is probably reading Shakespeare, rather than reading some MBA program out of some great business school. I think…
Intellectual entrepreneurship
Intellectual entrepreneurship seeks to reclaim for the contemporary world the oldest strain in our common intellectual tradition: the need for thought and reflection in the midst of the world of action. As the experiment of the original Greek…
Art and Design Critical to Science
The move to include art and design in the push to advance science, engineering, and math is not just a “feel-good” move. It’s critical to the future economy and families’ standard of living. Researchers are finding that although…
Can the Liberal Arts and Entrepreneurship Work Together?
Entrepreneurship is a tangible, practical manifestation of a liberal arts sensibility; it has economic ramifications that extend the ability of the entrepreneur to engage with social discourse—to develop and express…
language strategy
Studies show that companies that had a language strategy were able to increase their business by 25%. And at the other end of the scale, those who didn’t pay any…
The Heart of the Matter
Business leaders today are looking for a diversity of skills, and not just technical knowledge. Pivotal right now in financial services—a relationship business—is trust built around empathy, understanding, listening skills,…
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Literature and the Arts
On December 2, a ballerina, a surgeon, a music professor, a robotics scientist and an entrepreneur sat down together at Stanford to discuss what they had in common. In What Can Scientists Learn from Ballet?, a panel discussion…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table