What Harvard Business School has accomplished is almost subtly seismic. No press conference. No big announcement. Just a curriculum that has been reorganized, redesigned, and is now clearly pointing to one conclusion: understanding artificial intelligence is essential if you want to run a company in this day and age. Not hazily. Not voluntarily. sufficiently deep to use it, challenge it, and use it to make decisions. Data Science and AI for Leaders, the school’s new mandatory first-year course, isn’t a trend-chasing elective tucked away in a course catalog. It is required. Additionally, it is part of a larger trend in…
Author: Janine Heller
Between the first corporate recruiting fair and the welcome ceremony, there’s a moment when the idealism subtly disappears from the room. In 2018, Justin Portela arrived at Stanford with a five-page phone-typed essay on effective altruism, a strong interest in global health, and a belief that his education would be useful. He was employed at McKinsey two years later. He stated bluntly, “They funneled the shit out of me,” as though no more explanation was required. To be honest, it wasn’t. That tale, which is told in thousands of variations at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford each year, is at…
There is a certain type of announcement that makes you read the headline twice because it seems almost too ambitious to be true. That quality was present when Sal Khan introduced the Khan TED Institute on stage at TED2026 in Vancouver this past April. Developed in collaboration with ETS and TED, supported by Google, McKinsey, and Microsoft, this under-$10,000 higher education program is intended to compete with universities that charge forty times as much. Either it’s one of the most daring experiments ever tried, or it’s the most significant development in education in a generation. Maybe both. FieldDetailsInitiative nameKhan TED…
Watching a legal protection vanish through a memo rather than a court decision or a congressional vote causes a certain type of vertigo. In April of this year, the Education Department quietly revoked six Title IX agreements, which were signed during the administrations of Obama and Biden. These agreements required school districts to implement policies that protected transgender students. I’ve lost six agreements. And it’s up to schools, students, and legal professionals to figure out what it really means. CategoryDetailsLaw / PolicyTitle IX of the Education Amendments of 1972Enforcing AgencyU.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil RightsOriginal PurposeProhibit sex-based discrimination…
Alaska’s courts’ announcement of their AI aspirations has an almost poignant quality. The concept was fairly simple: create a chatbot that could guide bereaved locals through the probate process, explain the proper paperwork to submit, and spare them the trouble of navigating a legal system that, to the majority of people, seems to have been created to be confusing. They estimated three months. a tidy project. Then came reality. Instead, the Alaska Court System endured a fifteen-month ordeal through one of the nation’s most transparent government AI development experiments. The Alaska Virtual Assistant, or AVA as the team refers to…
One particular moment from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent speech at the University of Alabama School of Law sticks out. It’s not the well-crafted legal analysis or the thoughtfully phrased policy opinions, but rather a single sentence that struck a chord with a room full of aspiring attorneys. “It shows we’re way too predictable.” She wasn’t discussing a pattern in oral arguments or a colleague’s disagreement. She was discussing artificial intelligence, particularly AI models that have become remarkably adept at predicting the Supreme Court’s decision before the justices have even heard a case. CategoryDetailsFull NameSonia Maria SotomayorDate of BirthJune 25, 1954Place…
There comes a time when a university becomes something completely different from local news. That moment may have come quietly for Rowan University, with a membership announcement that most people outside of academic circles hardly noticed rather than a press conference or ribbon-cutting. The Global Consortium of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine, a global public-private-government partnership that links medical schools, researchers, business executives, and governments worldwide, has welcomed Rowan University’s Cooper Medical School. On paper, it sounds bureaucratic. It isn’t. FieldDetailsFull NameCooper Medical School of Rowan UniversityTypePublic Medical SchoolParent InstitutionRowan University, Glassboro, New JerseyFounded2012 (First new NJ medical school in…
In professional wrestling, there is a particular, almost theatrical silence that occurs when something real collides with something staged. That’s essentially what happened when Brock Lesnar returned to a WWE ring for the first time in two years on August 4, 2025, at MetLife Stadium. The audience erupted. The internet erupted. And Janel Grant’s legal team most likely took notice somewhere. Lesnar’s comeback at SummerSlam was a classic WWE spectacle, complete with a physical altercation and unexpected entrance. However, there was more than just excitement surrounding his return. Beneath it all, there was a sort of general unease that arises…
What transpired between In-N-Out Burger and CaliBurger in 2012 has an almost cinematic quality. A small American-owned chain opens a location in China, decorates its eateries in red and yellow, adds palm trees to its signage, and begins serving burgers that resemble those of one of the most popular fast-food chains in the American West. It wasn’t particularly subtle. And In-N-Out, a business that has spent decades defending a brand based on consistency and simplicity, took notice right away. In the ensuing lawsuit, CaliBurger was accused of doing more than simply taking inspiration; it claimed that the chain had directly…
The manner in which ESPN declared the Adrienne Lawrence lawsuit to be over is instructive. “ESPN and Adrienne Lawrence have settled their disagreement and decided to move on.Twelve words. No admission of misconduct. No justification. Other than hers, no names. It was a remarkably quiet exit from a very loud controversy for a network that employs some of the loudest voices in the media and broadcasts thousands of hours of sports annually. The story began more than a year earlier, in early 2018, when Lawrence, a former lawyer who had moved from the West Coast to Bristol, Connecticut, to participate…