BATON ROUGE – Thirty-two graduates at LSU’s spring commencement exercises on Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17, were awarded the LSU Distinguished Communicator Award. These students earned this honor by meeting high standards set by faculty in various colleges and by the LSU Communication across the Curriculum program. The students earned high grade-point averages […]
BATON ROUGE – Fifty-two LSU seniors received University Medals for graduating with the highest undergraduate grade-point averages as part of LSU’s 280th commencement exercises. The medalists were honored at a luncheon held on Thursday, May 16, in the L Club Room of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, and were also recognized and received their […]
BATON ROUGE – LSU’s 280th commencement exercises on Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17, featured 416 students who graduated with academic honors. Students with grade-point averages between 3.90 and 4.0 graduated summa cum laude. Those with averages of 3.80 to 3.89 graduated magna cum laude, and those with averages between 3.70 and 3.79 graduated […]
Entrepreneurs who launch new ventures away from industry hubs find that knowledge is portable. It is a classic tale of entrepreneurship: a computer whiz spends a few years working at a large corporation in Silicon Valley, then leaves to launch a startup. But what happens if she locates her firm in Kansas City, 1,500-odd miles […]
BATON ROUGE – Approximately 3,772 students are expected to graduate during LSU’s 280th commencement exercises on Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17. During the main ceremony on May 16, the academic procession will begin at 1:45 p.m., and ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Cokie Roberts, a political […]
Tory Higgins explains what managers and other leaders stand to gain by looking past simple carrot-and-stick tactics for motivating others. What’s wrong with viewing motivation as a function of the hedonic principle — that we are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain? For thousands of years we’ve simply accepted this idea that in all […]
An interview with Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins, authors of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World to Power Success and Influence. For more, see the article Do You Play to Win–or to Not Lose? Audio Interview from Harvard Business Review: The Secret to Effective Motivation – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review.
Life has never been more predictable. Yelp provides an early-warning system for dining out, by helping us avoid bad restaurants and alerting us to must-try items at good ones. Facebook lets us investigate a potential romantic interest before the first date. Turn-by-turn instructions from Google Maps prevent us from ever getting lost. The same thing […]
Let’s say you believed deeply in the importance of sleep health, and you wanted to start a movement to change people’s attitudes and behavior. Maybe, like Arianna Huffington, it’s a personal crisis that convinces you. Or maybe it’s a key piece of research or two that opens your eyes, as it were, to the dangers of too little […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had the exciting privilege of honoring 17 of America’s greatest innovators Wednesday night, when they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in ceremonies held at the USPTO’s Alexandria, Va., headquarters. Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO […]
