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Despite Problems, Silicon Valley Still an Innovation Magnet

All it takes is five minutes to compile a lengthy list of reasons not to come to Silicon Valley. The cost of living is off the charts. Traffic stinks. Housing...

Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded
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Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded

The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University...

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Gartner: 10 Key It Trends For 2012

If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will affect your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization...

Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap
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Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap

When the Ad:tech advertising technology conference hits New York next week, marketers, advertising agencies and recruiters may spend less time listening to the...

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Inside the Walls: Facebook's New Home

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, the company has occupied temporary, rented space. Now, for the first...

Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering
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Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering

Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The...

Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds
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Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds

Women who start college aiming to become engineers are more likely than men to change their major and choose another career because they lack confidence, according...

The Gen Y Myth
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The Gen Y Myth

A new study finds that much of the perceived wisdom about Gen Y's attitude and approach to work appears to be wrong. This means that much of what business leaders...

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5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire

Network pros, developers, business analysts, data experts, and security specialists in demand.

The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting
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The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting

Companies like Google and Facebook are downplaying résumés and identifying talent in unusual ways. An excerpt from George Anders's book "The Rare Find."

10 Secrets of Successful Leaders
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10 Secrets of Successful Leaders

Leadership is one of the areas that many entrepreneurs tend to overlook. It turns out, the skills and talents necessary to guide your team in the right direction...

Mentoring Builds Great Leaders, but Only If There Is Fierce Honesty
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Mentoring Builds Great Leaders, but Only If There Is Fierce Honesty

A new study suggests that pairing a seasoned pro with a promising prospect in an informal mentorship was significantly more potent in developing strong leaders...

The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting
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The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting

In late 2006, 22-year-old Adam D'Angelo confronted a serious problem. Facebook, then a small Silicon Valley startup, had picked him to be its chief technology...

Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
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Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Three Harvard researchers studying cooperation and competition in the workplace found that women's and men's workplace performance may be strongly linked to the...

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7 Key Skills New It Grads Are Lacking

Greg Taffet is scouting for talent. Taffet, the CIO of U.S. Gas & Electric Inc. in North Miami Beach, Fla., brought on four new staffers in the past six months...

Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs
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Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs

By 2018 the United States faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big...

So Many U.S. Manufacturing Jobs, So Few Skilled Workers
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So Many U.S. Manufacturing Jobs, So Few Skilled Workers

U.S. manufacturers are failing to fill thousands of vacant jobs, surprising when 14 million people are searching for work. Companies report difficulty finding...

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Stanford Teams With City College (think Engineering School)

In the chess match to determine which university will get a chance to build a graduate school of applied sciences on public land in New York City, Stanford is...

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Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following ­.s. Legislative Overhaul

 Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15...
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