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Many wealthy parents obsess about getting their kids into a great college, believing it will set them up for life. Drusilla Blackman specializes in helping them achieve that goal.Blackman, a former dean of admissions at Harvard and later Columbia, is the founder of Deans of Admissions, a group of former…

OpenAI’s chief economist has some advice for workers navigating a rapidly changing job market: stop trying to replicate the careers of successful people.Ronnie Chatterji, who is also a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, said conventional career wisdom often encourages people to study high achievers’ résumés and retrace…

An endless stream of opinion pieces and social media content has given communication degrees and students majoring in communication a bad rap.Communication often ranks lower on “Return on Investment” charts. The field is also often labeled as a “useless” degree.But I have a bachelor’s in communication and digital studies from…

When Fidji Simo resigned as OpenAI’s CEO of applications on Thursday, she shared a health lesson she learned the hard way.Simo has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. On Thursday, she wrote on social media that she has lived with the chronic illness for seven years.She wrote that she got…