Fidelity just announced that it has started a "pilot program" with Lehman Brothers in which it will unbundle execution from research services. This has 'lit a bombshell' under the industry, and is an omen for a trend towards greater unbundling in the securities research industry. [...continue reading]

Malcolm Gladwell writes a great piece on The social logic of Ivy League admissions. Halfway through the book, however, Shulman and Bowen present what they call a "surprising" finding. Male athletes, despite their lower S.A.T. scores and grades, and despite the fact that many of [...continue reading]

FastCompany.com just published our latest column: Blogging for a job. Heather Hamilton, a senior recruiter for marketing talent at Microsoft, recently performed an unusual recruiting experiment. As creator of the Marketing and Finance at Microsoft Blog, Heather asked her readers to link to a post [...continue reading]

Clive Thompson writes in the NY Times on Meet the Life Hackers. One of the key sentences: "On the bigger monitor screen [the size of a big-screen TV], people completed the tasks at least 10 percent more quickly - and some as much as 44 percent more quickly." [...continue reading]

From Businessweek: It's A Whole New Web: Daneane Gallardo doesn't just surf the World Wide Web. She lives on it. Every day, she wraps herself in her own personal electronic cocoon of e-mail groups, instant messaging, blogging, creating Web sites for indie musicians, and much more....I stopped [...continue reading]