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The Mercedes-AMG Project One Hypercar Shown Testing

The mid-engined Project One is powered by a turbocharged 1.6-liter V-6 engine derived from Mercedes’ Formula 1 cars. The Project One is a plug-in hybrid with four electric motors—two at the front axle, one coupled to the engine, and another coupled to the turbocharger. According to Mercedes, the car can go about 15 miles on electricity alone. For comparison, McLaren’s plug-in P1 hypercarhad an…

Harvard adds to Title IX initiatives

Harvard University continues to expand on its commitment to prevent and respond to instances of sexual and gender-based harassment, including sexual assault, introducing several new initiatives this fall to serve students, faculty, and staff.

These initiatives, being rolled out by the University’s Title IX Office, include a student liaison committee to engage students in educating their peers…

Smart Solutions Help Campus IT Teams Do More with Less

A recent New York Times article highlighted the financial struggle that many institutions are facing, with no sign that pressures will soon let up. “Continual belt-tightening is creating a number of negative outcomes,” says Eric J. Barron, president of Pennsylvania State University. “Henry Houdini was never bound this tightly.” 

Colleges are, in many respects, between a rock and a hard place.…

do internal candidates have a better chance at the job? — Ask a Manager

A reader writes:

I am currently in the running for a fantastic job at a dream company. I was approached about the job by a recruiter. The feedback from the first face-to-face interview was that I was the strongest candidate and the company decided not to proceed with any of the other external applicants and, instead, wanted to interview further external people for a pool of choice.

Besides…

How To Win In The New Era Of Innovation

by Greg Satell

IBM, to a large degree, invented the information technology industry. For the first half of the 20th century, it dominated the market for tabulating machines. Then digital computing posed new challenges and, by the 1950s it had begun to cede ground to UNIVAC, which led to Thomas Watson Jr’s $5 billion gamble to build the System 360.

That effort was transformative, but by the…

Moving Brands at 20: lessons on how to run a design business

Creative Insight

As the agency celebrates reaching the big 2-0 this month, we speak to co-founder Ben Wolstenholme and CEO Mat Heinl about setting up a company straight out of art school and how to keep the fires burning for two decades

Founded in 1998, Shoreditch-based studio Moving Brands has made a name for itself over the last two decades with its motion-heavy visual identities for the…

Digi Film Advert By DDB: A Special Little Place

This year’s Merdeka Day (or Malaysian Independence Day) was a special moment for many Malaysians, because of the recent change in government through the national elections that had seen a peaceful democratic transfer of power for the first time in six decades. How then to pay homage to Malaysia, with its diverse cultures, traditions, idiosyncrasies, and quirks – a nation of food, people and a…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Data Flow Diagrams

Ask any professional athlete or business executive how they became successful, and they’ll tell you they mastered a process. By figuring out which of their habits led to success, which didn’t, and learning from past successes and failures, they could improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity at work.

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McDonald’s Cuts Artificial Ingredients From Classic Burgers

McDonald’s is taking another step into the healthy food field by stripping artificial ingredients from seven of its classic burgers.

The move is the latest by an industry leader that has tremendously overhauled its menu, formulations and operations in the past several years in a bold—and increasingly successful—attempt to retain the millennials and establish a foothold with Generation Z. Younger…

The Big Story: Fall Into Festival Season | AdExchanger

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The Big Story is a breezy new podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts.

Two big tech and media players held their extravaganzas this week.

The Relevance Conference in Santa Barbara was a coming-out party for Xandr – that’s the…

The Super Carb Diet Is the Latest Eating Trend—Here’s What You Need to Know

Carbs get a bad rap. People seem to believe that eating them equals weight gain—and followers of low-carb, high-fat plans like keto seem content to do away with them all together. But there’s a new diet in town, and it’s a bread lover’s answer to this rise in carb phobia: the super carb diet.

No, the diet doesn’t recommend you eat only carbs (we wish). Created by former Biggest Losertrainer Bob…