By MELISSA KORN How do you motivate millionaires? Facebook Inc. is about to find out. Employees wait to try food from Facebook’s new on-campus smokehouse. But will ribs keep them on the farm when they’re rolling in dough? With Friday’s initial public offering expected to create perhaps 1,000 paper millionaires, the social-networking company faces a [...]

 

By PUI-WING TAM Silicon Valley’s lifeblood is innovation, something that often seems to happen intuitively or by accident. Garth Saloner says innovation can be taught. Mr. Saloner, 57 years old, is dean of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. A longtime faculty member and economist at the university, Mr. Saloner early last decade took several [...]

 

By STEPHANIE BANCHERO The increasing role of standardized testing in U.S. classrooms is triggering pockets of rebellion across the country from school officials, teachers and parents who say the system is stifling teaching and learning. Victoria Salazar, 14, takes the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in algebra at Boca Raton Community High School on Tuesday. In [...]

 

The power suit is over. The latest fashion collections reflect a new power look for women. The style, fueled by variety and feminine tailoring—peplums, pleats, darts, draping and shawl collars— makes room for soft colors, busy prints and details like embroidery and beading that were once deemed inappropriate for the office. Career women have long [...]

 

The power suit is over. The latest fashion collections reflect a new power look for women. The style, fueled by variety and feminine tailoring—peplums, pleats, darts, draping and shawl collars— makes room for soft colors, busy prints and details like embroidery and beading that were once deemed inappropriate for the office. Career women have long [...]

 

By LESLIE KWOH Think an overseas work assignment gives you a lock on a senior role? Think again—and start packing your bags. As the process of bringing products to market involves an increasingly global web of commerce, managers gunning for the C-suite should be ready to complete multiple stints abroad. Such double- and triple-dipping workers [...]

 

By RAY A. SMITH Alan Eckstein, left, and Timo Weiland present their pitch. Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein, the designers behind the small contemporary designer label Timo Weiland, stood a little nervously before a panel of four investors last Friday explaining in an eight-minute pitch why they needed $500,000 to help expand their business. Standing [...]

 

By LESLIE KWOH Think an overseas work assignment gives you a lock on a senior role? Think again—and start packing your bags. As the process of bringing products to market involves an increasingly global web of commerce, managers gunning for the C-suite should be ready to complete multiple stints abroad. Such double- and triple-dipping workers [...]

 

By DENNIS NISHI After successfully closing a $25 million deal with Sony, Anne Kreamer, a senior vice president at the children’s cable channel Nickelodeon, got a call from Sumner Redstone. It was the first time the chairman and majority owner of Nickelodeon’s parent company, Viacom, had ever called her. “I was anticipating high-fiving and congratulations. [...]

 

By MELISSA KORN Free labor? Great. Free labor from top M.B.A. students? Even better. For decades, companies have relied on business-school students to be unpaid consultants, assessing takeover or expansion opportunities. It is low risk and high reward for firms, with almost no financial outlay and a number of fresh new ideas from eager up-and-comers. [...]

 

By MELISSA KORN Peter Tufano does his homework. Before taking office as dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford last July, the former Harvard Business School professor interviewed more than 250 students, faculty, staff, alumni and others to better understand the institution, and read sociology books about Britain. Peter Tufano says the [...]

 

By MELISSA KORN INSEAD had big dreams when the business school ventured into Abu Dhabi in 2006: A lucrative executive-education program would draw wealthy midlevel managers from the Gulf region, and the campus would give the school a new research hub in a fast-growing economy to complement its existing operations in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore. [...]

 

By CHARLES WHEELAN Look to your left and then to your right. Is that pretty girl Phi Beta Kappa? Marry her. Class of 2012, I became sick of commencement speeches at about your age. My first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. Every spring, I would offer extraordinary tidbits [...]

 

By JOSH MITCHELL The growth of student debt is stirring debate about whether the government should step in to ease the burden by rewriting the bankruptcy laws—again. In 2005, Congress prohibited student debt from being discharged through bankruptcy, except in rare cases, because of concerns that many young graduates—who often have no major assets such [...]

 

By DAVID WESSEL And STEPHANIE BANCHERO Throughout American history, almost every generation has had substantially more education than that of its parents. That is no longer true. When baby boomers born in 1955 reached age 30, they had about two years more schooling than their parents, according to Harvard University economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence [...]