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10/18/17

On or off the record? Journalism sourcing 101

By Kurt Wagner '12

In July, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called a reporter from The New Yorker to press him for the source of a quote, and...

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Want to Work at a Startup? Read This First

By Dean Ku M.A. '09

Before becoming a career coach, I worked at a startup for almost seven years. My wife jokes that I’m one for one and got incredibly lucky, as the one...

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Empowering Women to Power Up the Rural Poor

By Thane Kreiner

An estimated 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity, and most resort to kerosene as their primary lighting source. It has been...

Is Facebook the New Rorschach?

By Thomas Plante

You all have likely heard about the Rorschach, the famous inkblot test used by psychologists for nearly a century to access personality and...

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On Steroids: Uber's Wild Psychological Ride

By Hersh Shefrin

Uber dramatically disrupted the global taxi industry in less than a decade. Now, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler has disrupted Uber by blogging about being...

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Entrepreneurs Innovating Workforce Development

By Drew Starbird MBA '84

When we talk about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, we usually mean those innovative firms that are turning new technology...

Total Solar Eclipse 2017: Everything You Need to Know

By Phil Kesten

The sun, Earth, and the moon all stay essentially on one, flat “surface” in space. That means the moon can sometimes move into a position directly between...

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Top 5 Bay Area Companies with the Most SCU Alumni