Ogilvy France and Ogilvy Asia-Pacific joined forces to make a can that splits in half for Coca-Cola, the most literal extension of the brand’s global “Share Happiness” concept. The split-can design is admittedly pretty cool, although sharing a Coke with anyone who isn’t a germaphobe is already pretty easy, so this is a solution … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2013
An Entrepreneur Learning to Be a Boss
There is a difference between being a sole entrepreneur and a boss of others. For women, this can be an added piece of pressure. Marcy Twete is the Founder and CEO of Career Girl Network and the author of You Know Everybody! A Career Girl’s Guide to Building a Network That Works. She wrote about hiring, firing and … Continue reading
5 Tools to Help Plan Your Next Meeting
Planning a meeting can be a hassle — between finding a meeting time convenient for everyone and sending out invites and follow-up notes, everyone could use some tools to make it easier. To read more, click here. Continue reading
Tool of the Day: Hailo
Use Hailo to get a yellow cab wherever you are, whenever you want. All it takes is a tap on your iPhone or Android phone. Jump out of the cab as soon as you arrive and get an instant receipt by email. Website Continue reading
A Business Plan For Mixtapes
The next generation of creative people are considering music as an outlet of expression. It’s becoming an opportunity to make money as well. However, some aspiring artists use their pursuit of music as an opportunity to run away from getting an education. You will either be a student or you will pay the person who … Continue reading
21 Ways Rich People Think Differently
Steve Siebold, author of “How Rich People Think,” spent nearly three decades interviewing millionaires around the world to find out what separates them from everyone else. It had little to do with money itself, he told Business Insider. It was about their mentality. “[The middle class] tells people to be happy with what they have,” he said. “And … Continue reading
Poverty Moves to Suburbs, but Services Lag
The past three decades have changed the face of the American economy – and now they’re changing the face of American poverty. New research from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit think tank, documents a startling reality: More poor people live in suburbs than in cities for the first time. Suburban poverty is different from … Continue reading
How To Give Difficult Feedback
For most of his career, Thomas D’Aunno has been studying how people give one another feedback. As a professor of health policy and management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, he focuses on health care, where the failure to give or take feedback can have life or death consequences. But he says his … Continue reading
New Playground at Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy
On May 15, 2013, 303 volunteers from Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy (MMBDA), Marriott International, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the community came together to build a new playground at MMBDA. The new playground’s design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in March. The new playground will provide more than 720 children … Continue reading
Nurturize
Nurturize is a platform for classes – simplifying the way we search, book and take a class. Instead of googling and browsing through multiple websites spending hours to find the right class, Nurturize will be the one stop comprehensive portal for wide range of classes. It was when Rehana Shrestha literally spent hours browsing websites, emailing and calling … Continue reading