Business and the Humanities: Moving Into the Future in Partnership
“Interdisciplinary alliances have come to comprise a fast-growing trend for entrepreneurial humanities departments. McMaster already offers a specialized minor in commerce for humanities majors, and its Justice and Political Philosophy…
Liberal Arts Is the Foundation for Professional Success in the 21st Century
âWhat are you going to do with that degree?â Sadly, many students in the liberal arts and humanities have gotten used to that condescending question by now. With economic downturn in 2008 and a job market demand trending…
What Daniel Pink Thinks About the Importance of the Arts and Humanities
This is the first of a series of interviews with extraordinary people who are using their skills and training as artists and humanists to improve their communities, challenge assumptions, and…
Why Success Depends on Your Ability to Tell Stories
“Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are both known for their seemingly mystical power to distort reality. What gives them this ability isn’t a quirk of a charismatic leader; it’s a…
David Byrne on the Tangible Benefits of the Arts
David Byrne: âIn order to really succeed in whatever⌠math and the sciences and engineering and things like that,â Byrne tells Tyson above, âyou have to be able to think…
Why Art Matters to Educating Successful Entrepreneurs
A former IBM executive and venture startup CEO, Fjeld likes to remind his students that entrepreneurship isn’t easy. “You start with an idea,” he tells them. “And you’re almost certainly…
Why Harvard Business thinks Start-Ups Need the Humanities
“Getting your hands dirty on practical problems is a useful thing. Thatâs one. Second I would say is to really encourage the liberal arts. We do a horrible job at…
Why Climate Change Needs English Majors
“In apparently the first course of its kind, UCSB is offering a class in the English department entitled, The Rhetoric of Climate Change. The course employs traditional tools for literary…
Tim O’Reilly: Why Tech Needs the Classics
“Knowing how to code is only one piece of the puzzle. Tim OâReilly writes well â and he knows how to build up a team of capable writers and editors…
Preparing Yourself for an Unpredictable World
“What should you do to prepare yourself for a world that is almost entirely unpredictable? Part of the answer lies in research undertaken by New College of the Humanities. The…
To Data or Not To Data: Capturing the Humanities in Motion
Originally posted on the Academy Data Forum of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Oct. 2nd, 2015 When the Humanities Indicators project began, its goal was to provide systematic and coordinated, reliable and usable data on the…
The Importance of Mission and STEAM in Business Today
As a Not-For-Profit Administrator I was often plagued by the assumption from For-Profit Business Professionals that our work was substandard to their own, that by virtue of the title we were an inferior business model. Even our Presidential…
Why a Background in the Arts Is of Importance To Successful Executives
Bruce E. Whitacre, Executive Director of Theatre Forward comments on whether “arts engagement can predict success or contribute to a strong workforce, and if a background in the arts was…
Profit over People
As stated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, âWe do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.â This quote shows that we do not act in an…
Creating Meaning, Not Just Money: The Intellectual Innovators Behind Some of the Biggest Start-Ups
Next time youâre struggling to figure out how to make a big dent in the universe with your own startup, maybe the answer is to take time out to âread…
Why Philosophy Is a Smart Choice for Future Entrepreneurs
Creating entrepreneurs has never been the purpose of a philosophy department, nor is creating a business typically the goal of a philosophy student. And that is a good thing. Reading…
Do You Know What To Do with the Future?
If Thomas Friedman is right, if the future belongs to those who can invent new jobs and industries rather than staffing existing ones, then it belongs to people with a…
Businesses Find the Right Intellectual Wattage in Students of the Humanities
Business leaders around the world have told me that they despair of finding people who can help them solve wicked problems â or even get their heads around them. Itâs…
Lack of Languages Stifles Brits and Americans
The British Academy’s report, Languages: the State of the Nation, published in February 2013, discovered “strong evidence of a growing deficit in foreign language skills at a time when globally…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table