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Does a University like Stanford Produce more Successful Startups? This Might be Why

Friday, 05 April 2019 by Paul O'Brien

Culture. It all, always, comes down to the culture of community. Why does Silicon Valley produce startups differently than elsewhere? Why does Hollywood have a style and way about their films that really isn’t replicated elsewhere? Why is Arizona State University a “party school” that produces highly social people? As entrepreneurs, we like to THINK

From Cambridge to Coffee Barista, How University has been Sold to Us

Thursday, 23 August 2018 by Paul O'Brien

CNBC’s Courtney Connley reported recently that Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree, spurring some consideration of the implication on jobs and education. The amateur economist in me read the headline on the surface of it and thought, “great! More affirmation that $100,000 in debt to

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Changing Education

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from Editor at Large ofThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Author of College (Un)Bound, Jeff Selingo. He has spent the past 15 years immersed in higher education reporting and has been a featured speaker before dozens of national higher-education groups and appears regularly on NPR, PBS, ABC,

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