Lessons from the Square Watermelon
Innovation leads to another innovation. An interesting lesson from an artificially shaped watermelon, and its unforeseen side effects.
Ideally, if a company wants to connect with foreign customers it should speak and write in their language, right? I learned this lesson the hard way during a recent five-month stint in northern France: It’s really hard to build relationships with people who don’t speak your language. That experience sensitized me to the struggles of […]
Nadira Hira is the author of The Gig - a blog on Fortune’s website that discusses issues relevant to Gen Y. The Gig offers advice to young workers as well as insight into young colleagues.
As our colleagues Sam Nguyen and Peter Ha decompress after Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, we note an interesting coincidence in the computing world. No doubt techies already know this, but two important things happened this week. First, Apple announced Snow Leopard, the next iteration of OS X. Second, […]
Ethics Gone Bananas
Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.
Changing the Odds
60% of college students don't get a successful education - wasting billions and billions of dollars annually. Richard Light conducts a survey of Harvard students to find out what advice can help students be more likely to succeed.
We’re preparing for today's release of the iPhone…
