Lean In stories: Tina Brown on stepping up her game
My Lean In moment came with a vengeance in June 1992. I had been editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair for nearly nine years when S.I. Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast magazines,...
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Lean In stories: Mellody Hobson on the difference between assertive and abrasive
While in college, I worked as intern at Ariel Investments. As the youngest of six kids from a single mom, and the first and only to graduate from college, I...
Cook County technology: ‘8-track tapes in an iPod world’
Lydia Murray, Chief Information Officer for Cook County and head of the Cook County Bureau of Technology, spoke to the City Club of Chicago on Dec. 3, 2013, introduced by...
Lean In stories: Marissa Mayer on being open to new opportunities
On June 18th, I got the call. "I'm doing a CEO search. It's a Fortune 500 company. It's in the consumer Internet space. It's in Silicon Valley — you wouldn't...
CIW talks small business with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mario Batali
More than 50 Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) attendees joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel and celebrity chef Mario Batali for a lively conversation about fostering businesses and communities in the Windy City...
Lab attendees get the scoop on WBEZ’s Curious City
The stage was set Oct. 17 for WBEZ's Jennifer Brandel to make the memorable entrance she planned for the WEBZ 91.5 FM Curious City: A Collaborative Journalism Project Lab. About...
CIW attendees learn life lessons from Malcolm Gladwell and more
As the music got louder and the two-minute countdown projected onto the screen, people hustled into the Cadillac Palace Theatre, shuffling among several white "Reserved for you!" signs to find...
CIW talks solutions at Environment: Conserve and Protect
Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) speaker Peter Byck, a filmmaker and professor at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability and Cronkite School of Journalism, had extra motivation while filming Carbon Nation,...
CIW attendees learn secrets of creativity
Ever get stuck writing a poem or solving a design problem? On Oct. 20, speakers ranging from chefs to award-winning playwrights to artists unlocked the secrets to artistic success at...
Hyatt and gravitytank give lab attendees a look at hotels of the future
"Breakfast has been the same for the past 10 years." That was one of the sticky notes participants of the Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) The Hotel of the Future Lab...