Downsizing at Harvard: Hold the Eggs and Bacon

Cost-cutting and downsizing is all relative, as evidenced by this article about Harvard.  At least we got powdered scrambled eggs for breakfast each.  day when I was an undergrad at Princeton (I assumed they were powdered as they didn’t taste like fresh eggs; maybe they weren’t chicken eggs…).

By the way, Wake Forest U typically did [...]

Use Your Alumni Network for A New Job!

I was interviewed this week by Miriam Salpeter on how to use one’s alumni network to land a new job.  Here are some excerpts of the interview:
Old-fashioned networking with a modern twist is alive at Wake Forest University. Business school professor Aneil Mishra, co-author of the book (with Karen Mishra), Trust is Everything, maintains a [...]

High School Juniors: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

In today’s Wall Street Journal is another reminder of how we are robbing our youth of their happiness while pretending to say we care about it:

Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area told researchers that they were “often or always” stressed by schoolwork, according to a series [...]