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The 2018 KWHS Comment and Win Contest Gets Off to a Strong Start

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Our KWHS team is excited to report the results for Round 1 of our 2018 Comment and Win Contest! We spent the last few days since the first two weeks of the contest ended on Friday, July 6 reading through more than 40 comments on KWHS articles from high school students around…Read More

The Value of a Summer Job

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Economists love labor-force statistics, those numbers that help them determine all kinds of things about the improving or declining health of the economy -- unemployment rates, new jobs, emerging job sectors, and so on. It was unsettling this spring when more than one newspaper headline heralded “The Death of the Summer…Read More

Aspiring Entrepreneurs Take Note: 4 Tips from a Venture Capitalist Investor

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If you ever watched the movie “The Intern” with actress Anne Hathaway, then you got a quick lesson in how start-up companies work. About the Fit, Hathaway’s young online retail business, has been growing like crazy and has relationships with VCs, one of the many acronyms that gets thrown around…Read More

IHOP Flips to IHOb and Gets People Talking about the Business of Burgers

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The pancake-burger brouhaha began on June 11. On its official Instagram account IHOP, also known as the International House of Pancakes, posted this: “We’re flippin’ from pancakes, pancakes, pancakes to burgers, burgers, burgers. #IHOb.” And with that, the "P" became a "b," at least temporarily, and the food started flying. The pancake house (a…Read More

Graduates Define Success

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Happy graduation to high school seniors around the world! We asked a few of you – a sampling of tomorrow’s leaders -- to share your definitions of success. We hope more of you will add your perspectives in the comments section of this article (Our Comment and Win contest starts…Read More

Career Spotlight: The Future of Journalism

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Truth. It’s recently sparked debate, especially given the rise of propaganda or false information published under the guise of being authentic news. “We have a real risk in our society in the days and years ahead of losing touch with what the truth is,” said Matt Murray, the new editor-in-chief of The…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Diversity and Inclusion in Life and Work

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Why This Matters Now The relevance of culture and diversity awareness in the world of business can’t be overstated. Two recent headlines underscore the value of understanding differences and how we perceive them. More recently, employees of Google parent Alphabet Inc. teamed up with investors for a push to tie…Read More

What It Takes to Become a CEO

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Evan Spiegel, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of the company Snap, Inc., the Los Angeles-based parent of Snapchat, is often seen as an inspiration to future business leaders. He became a billionaire in 2015, not long after launching Snapchat in 2011, and has been referred to as the youngest CEO…Read More

Prolific App Developer Michael Royzen Plans for a Future in College and AI Innovation

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On June 10 Michael Royzen, 18, will don his cap and gown and graduate from The Bush School in Seattle, Washington. Like many of his classmates, the soon-to-be high school grad has been busy finishing up projects and finals, celebrating, and preparing for the big day. He admits, however, that…Read More

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