Talent Management Keep Young Professionals Engaged

According to a new Harvard Business Review study, the number one reason young professionals leave their organizations is that they are not learning enough. The research shows that employees under the age of 30 leave their employers after an average of 28 months, citing ... More »

Extracurricular Activities: Personalizing Your Recommendations To the Needs and Interests of the Student

Saul Carliner

The Extracurricular Activities Blog Series has suggested a variety of extracurricular activities you can mention to your students. But no single set of recommendations serves the needs of every student. Indeed, the extracurricular needs of a student completing a bachelo... More »

Message to Millennials: There’s “Knowing”… and Then There’s “Doing”

Nandi Shareef

Margie Blanchard, wife of bestselling author and consultant Ken Blanchard, once said that the gap between knowing and doing is greater than the gap between knowing and not knowing. Boy, how right she was! As a young MBA student, I heard variations of this quite often fr... More »

Breaking the Ice

Tomika Greer

In the summer of 2003, I attended a train-the-trainer session.  It was my first formal opportunity to learn how to “be” a trainer—and my first day on a new job. I was attempting to break into a new career path. I had somehow convinced my new compa... More »

The Purpose of Different Degrees (Or What Is the Purpose of a Master’s Degree?)

Saul Carliner

How does a bachelor’s degree in our field differ from a master’s degree? PhD from a master’s?  Each type of degree has a particular purpose, but the understanding of these differences is rarely articulated, much less well understood. More »