SINGAPORE, Nov 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As Asia grows, a looming shortage of senior leaders among the region’s financial institutions is expected. The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School has thus launched the Asia Leaders in Financial Institutions (ALFI) programme to equip industry practitioners with the capabilities to assume regional and global responsibilities, including [...]
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Bit Circus founders Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman have been awarded a POPULAR MECHANICS’ Breakthrough Innovator Award. These two men want to overhaul how we teach kids the essential subjects of science, math and engineering – all disciplines children have struggled with mightily in this country for nearly [...]
LYNDHURST, N.J., Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The practice of medicine requires extensive training and relies on hard science. And yet, the attributes valued most by patients when rating and reviewing their doctors are more often those softer measures not taught in medical school. The Vitals Index analyzed 1,000 recent reviews of doctors by their [...]
Hong Kong, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The 25th HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair opened today, welcoming some 570 exhibitors from 31 countries and regions, a new exhibitor record. The fair, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), continues through 22 July. More than 300 cultural events are taking place over the next [...]
CHICAGO, July 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Thirty-one aspiring female inventors will compete to build and race electric cars created from old refrigerators as part of a new initiative launched by ComEd. The program, dubbed “The Icebox Derby,” is co-sponsored by Girls4Science, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and the Chicago Urban League and is [...]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — While kids may dread the start of school, most parents (66%) look forward to back-to-school shopping as a time to bond with their teenagers, according to a recent Staples survey. And more than two in five parents of teens (43%) say back-to-school shopping makes them relive their own [...]
DALLAS, June 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) is continuing to help students mobilize their future with its expanded Samsung Mobile App Academies. In its third year, the mobile application (app) development program for high school students will travel to a total of ten cities across the country. The program also features a [...]
NEW YORK, June 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Education giant Kaplan is strengthening its place in the expanding market of technology bootcamps with the launch of two new programs this summer: one for aspiring data scientists and one for aspiring product designers. Both bootcamps will operate under Kaplan’s new Metis brand of intensive learning programs, launched in [...]
AMSTERDAM and DUSSELDORF, Germany, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BIC has started crowdsourcing digital handwriting contributions and data from all over the planet in order to combine them into a single typeface. The Universal Typeface experiment is a celebration of the BIC Cristal ballpoint, of which more than 100 billion have been produced since 1950. [...]
LONDON, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The organisers of the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity are proud to honour Bono, the activist lead singer of Irish rock band U2, with the first ever Cannes LionHeart Award, for pioneering (RED), a creative fusion of branding, activism and philanthropy that has generated more than $250 [...]