Posts Tagged ‘Harvard’

Billionaires: Commonalities

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 21:51 By GSerrano

Billionaires are obviously ambitious, smart, and very, very, very lucky. There are, however, some surprisingly common traits among them. Here are the trends that presented themselves.
The most common professions among the parents of American billionaires were engineer, accountant, and small-business owner – all math-related careers. They have passed on the mathematical prowess to their offspring, [...]

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Sucking out pathogens: A blood purifier with a magnetic appeal

Friday, June 26, 2009 13:54 By Neo

How does the idea of a Micromagnetic-Microfluidic Blood Filter that selectively rips out the microbes that are linked to your blood cells and are killing you from the inside sound? A wonderful fantasy at its optimistic best or a marketing lie, if you are not much of an upbeat guy. But that is exactly what [...]

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Bill Gates’ Leadership Impact is Right at Your Fingertips

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:31 By GSerrano

Bill Gates is arguably the number one business leader that the past quarter-century has produced. An instinctive innovator and incurable entrepreneur for most of his life, he started what would be a long career in programming computers at the tender age of 13. He quit Harvard in his junior year to develop what would eventually [...]

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