Author: Hanson Hosein

  • Teaching the world’s media capital a thing or two

    “Boy was I ever important,” New York Times columnist David Carr declared during his Internet Week keynote. That’s when the newspapers’ presses – located one floor below — would come to life after he had submitted an important scoop, “and you would feel the rumble in your butt,” Carr said. Now, the once all-powerful cabal…

  • Sitting next to Billy Beane watching him watch Brad Pitt in Moneyball

    You think that the guy who Brad Pitt played in the movie “Moneyball” would get tired of watching his movie star doppleganger. Billy Beane is keynoting the start to Internet Week, with its focus on “Big Data, Big Solutions.”  And obviously, with our degree’s emerging emphasis on data and storytelling, it’s a timely talk.  Yahoo!…

  • Internet Week in New York City, Startup City?

    We’ve just arrived in New York for Internet Week. Certainly, it’ll be a fruitful time for us: an MCDM booth at Startup City, a Happy Hour (already near capacity) in collaboration with Shauna Causey and Decide.com, and a tonload of friend-raising on behalf of our graduate program and just-announced Four Peaks Executive Program (June 12, Seattle).…

  • Four Peaks TV grand finale: Hacking Edu

    Watch now in HD on UWTV (and embedded below) our final Four Peaks show for the season.  As we move away from an industrialized, hierarchical model to a more nimble, collaborative one, how do we need to learn? What are we willing to pay for?  What are the essential skills of a 21st century workforce?  What emerging trends…