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So you’ve just landed an internship – congratulations! What are the steps you can take to succeed in your role? While this piece is relevant for remote internships during the summer of 2020, the advice can be widely applied to any internship. Business Today explains how students and recent graduates can define their goals for the summer, get to to know the people around them, communicate with their managers, attend as many social and career events as they can, and connect with fellow interns.

Finance & Business, Technology, News & Analysis, Lifestyle, USBusiness TodayJuly 9, 2020internship, COVID19, COVID, coronavirus, remote, opportunity, career, networking, social, firm, professional, network, summer, Summer 2020, goals, manager, mentor, colleagues, alumni, contacting, career advice

Marketing the Markup: Doublespeak in Health Care Policy

AI is being used to streamline the healthcare industry, but concerns over data privacy beg the question of how HIPPA laws will shift the industry of health care innovation. On the flip side, obtaining data about patient treatment has the potential to empower an informed health care consumer to choose how they want to contribute to their own care. Whether we perceive the proposed technological advancements as helpful or overreaching will depend on the “doublespeak” marketing involved.

Politics, Print, Fall 2019Emily ChestonApril 17, 2020healthcare, marketing, policy, law, doublespeak, Fall 2019, Print, language, social, communication, politics

Facebook: The New Digital Monopoly

Facebook is not a monopoly in the traditional sense as it neither controls exclusive supply of a good or service nor does it technically have a high barrier to entry to start the business.

News & Analysis, All, Technology, USLilly ChadwickApril 25, 2018facebook, monopoly, digital, digital age, traditional, social, social media, Mark Zuckerberg, money, control, power, platform, digital advertising, media, digital media, ads, advertisiting, advertising

The Disuse of “Pursuit of Excellence”

There is no doubt that universities have expanded resources to better serve students from lower-income backgrounds, but the greater question at hand is how these students can thrive in the environments of elite institutions.