The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts a surge of over 1.3 million technology sector jobs by 2020. These jobs will fall under computer programming and computer support specialist roles. Despite the increase in jobs, the tech sector will have trouble filling these roles because of...
This week, we meet for breakfast to talk through our conflicting feelings about the new film “When the Bough Breaks,” the No. 2 movie in America. Jenna loved it; Wesley not so much. We also decode the inherent racism of the sharing economy. Airbnb recently issued...
Lisa Jones was born in San Francisco, and grew up in L.A. Her father, now 82, still works as a real estate developer, doing commercial and residential development all over California. As a kid, Lisa would go with him to work as often as she...
Michael Donnelly, CEO at Brandless Group, knows events: She was previously an early employee at Techweek, founder of events consulting company Red Suede Shoes and cofounder of BizDev Conference and Events. But in attending and planning countless events around the Chicago she was frustrated at the...
The United States is losing a significant number of qualified minority engineers. Nonwhite and non-Asian engineers are leaving the field at a higher rate than others, according to the National Science Foundation. The NSF found that in 2013 (the latest year for which data are...