1,791,000 students will graduate from college this spring, each and every one of them harboring high hopes for landing a great job and embarking on life as an independent adult. While the official unemployment rate is currently 7.5 percent, down from 8.2 percent at this time last year,...

San Antonio-born, Princeton-educated business consultant, entrepreneur, and artist Robert Hammond has lived in Manhattan's West Village for several years. Near his apartment was a stretch of the old elevated New York Central Railroad tracks, which had been abandoned since the early 1980's. It reminded him, he told an...

Thirty-seven million Americans at 3.5 million workplaces will participate in the 20-year tradition of Take Your Kids to Work Day this Thursday. The goal of the day is not to transform the workplace into a circus or a playground, but to get children interested in what the workplace...

On Wednesday, April 17, just 48 hours after the terrible events in Boston, the Senate failed to pass the Manchin-Toomey amendment to the Senate's gun control bill, which mandated background checks on firearm purchases via the Internet and gun shows. Though it received a clear majority of votes...

Many employers spend millions of dollars to upgrade their technology and software but skimp when it comes to providing their employees with formal skills development, apprenticeships, on-the-job learning, ongoing education, and other programs. They're making a big mistake. Employees are the lifeblood of any organization -- and the skills they...

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the earth is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, giving us exactly 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of night. This year, the Spring Equinox falls on March 20th. As the days grow longer and we...

Paris Fashion Week is in its final leg, with shows concluding tomorrow. From high-heeled boots to glittery eyes, from utility belts to studded leather cone-bra shirts, the world's best designs, from Rodarte and Chloe to Chanel and Valentino, have been strutting down the catwalks in the Tuileries Garden....

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's recent decree abolishing telecommuting is a gigantic step backward at an important time for women. International Working Women's Day is March 8. While there is much to celebrate when it comes to women's achievements in the work place, there is still...

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, Author of Upgrade (McGraw-Hill, September 2013) and CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions, she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions...

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions, she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Wake up, America! Yesterday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was the deadliest elementary school shooting in American history. Every single mother, every single father, every teacher, every brother and sister, every single person who cares about our children and their safety must take...

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Between Super Bowl XLVI and the Olympics opening ceremony, 2012 has been a big year for communal television viewing. Tonight's coverage of the US election is sure to draw millions of viewers as well. If the past is any indication of how many people will be...

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Your Start-Up Life is a business advice column by Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group. In addition to answering readers' questions she features conversations with successful entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and innovative leaders. Send your questions about work, life and play to

Twelve years ago the visionary architect and designer Peter Marino, principal of the New York-based global design firm Peter Marino Architect, traded in his cashmere vest, tie and slacks for something that looked and felt more true to his old biker self. He never went back...