Browsing: career success
Microsoft’s CFO admits she joined the tech giant without even knowing her salary—and then missed her first day of work
As an economics undergraduate at Duke University in the 1990s, Amy Hood had no master plan that would one day…
Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off, including music and arts
Colleges and universities may soon have to give students a blunt warning: some of their programs might not pay off.…
LinkedIn’s new CEO Daniel Shapero says the company you keep has a bigger impact on your career than job titles
Daniel Shapero was named CEO of LinkedIn this week, stepping into the role long held by Ryan Roslansky. But after…
Warren Buffett, who is worth $143 billion today and was once the richest man in the world, was once making…
For decades, young people were told to go to college, with white-collar jobs like coding cast as the future. But…
Meet the Gen Z grads reviving accounting—colleges are reporting near-perfect placement rates
Accounting, long stereotyped as dull and tedious, has struggled for years to attract young talent. On top of a greying…
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, here’s a little bit of trivia for you: One of the premier…
From 12 hours of video games a day to Big Ten Player of the Year: Yaxel Lendeborg’s unlikely rise
Back in high school, Yaxel Lendeborg wasn’t even on the basketball team (and had even been cut from the middle-school…
TV host Mike Rowe slams schools for portraying skilled trades as a ‘consolation prize’—when he’s met data center electricians making up to $280,000 a year
For many decades, students have been steered toward a singular path: go to college, or risk falling behind. It’s a…
Forty-four years ago, Howard Schultz packed up his life, loaded his golden retriever, Jonas, into his 1979 Audi, and drove…












