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The study: "The Social Attachment to Place," by Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University; and Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management; published in the journal Social Forces. The finding: Proximity to family and friends is a more important factor than wages when people consider a new job

An energetic young man by the name of Ankur Jain blew into the Inc. offices a couple of months ago to sell me on the idea of getting involved with the Kairos Society, an organization he launched three years ago. Its focus, he told me, "is to bring together the world's top collegiate entrepreneurs to create the next billion-dollar, high-growth, job-creating ventures to solve some of the world's greatest problems." Jain is all of 21, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, the son of a muckety-muck with contacts to spare, and, like a lot of entrepreneurs, a whirlwind of ambition, salesmanship, and enthusiasm.

A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.

As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games. Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus on Lord Of the Flies book summaries and five-paragraph essays. So far 42 states have pledged to adopt the (coercively) voluntary standards championed by President Obama, the National Governors Association, and billionaire education crusader, Bill Gates

Banning kids from Facebook isn't realistic.

Apple sold almost 5 million iPads around the world last quarter. But it still couldn't make them fast enough to meet demand. Apple sold almost 5 million iPads during its March quarter—and it still couldn’t keep up with the demand, company executives said during a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday

Halle Tecco, who founded the new health-care startup incubator Rock Health, is bringing in visionaries like the founder of Guitar Hero to help creative, innovative, and--dare we say it--fun health-care startups get off the ground.

Richard Miller has had one of the toughest jobs in higher education. The Olin Foundation tapped him a dozen years ago to create an engineering college on a hilltop in the Boston suburb of Needham.

The students, alumni, and professors at MIT are a brainy -- and busy -- bunch. To mark the university's 150th year, we tracked a handful of smarty-pants with ties to the school. Infographic: MIT's 150th Birthday

Two years ago , I had a million-dollar idea. Or at least, a couple-hundred-thousand-dollar idea

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Erika Anderson has something of a Silicon Valley pedigree. She graduated from MIT and Cornell Law School before bringing her socially conscious business plan to the Bay Area's Singularity University

Let’s say you are trying to sell cookies for a school fundraiser at the local mall, and you want to pick the ideal spot to set up your table. You’d probably look for an area with a lot of traffic.

Even in the most favorable business climate, starting a company is no small feat. Imagine daring to set up shop as a woman under the Taliban regime.

Even in the most favorable business climate, starting a company is no small feat.