Articles by Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson
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How to Get Hired at Educational Platform 2U
Founded in 2008, 2U, Inc., is on the cutting edge of online education. The company partners with universities like Brandeis, Boston College, Emory, UC Berkeley, Northwestern and Notre Dame to pre… -
The Gardening, Accordion-Playing Tech Consultant
John Buczkowski, who hails from St. Catharines, Ont., came to Boston’s Northeastern University on a rowing scholarship. After he received both bachelors and master’s degrees in Computer Science h… -
Transmedia Uses Tech to Change Storytelling
Jay Bushman is an Emmy-winning transmedia producer, show runner and writer. He was behind the Jane Austen inspired, tremendously successful, 153 episode series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and more… -
How to Get Hired By Carnival Cruise Lines
Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines has a large, highly specialized IT team that includes more than 400 dedicated staff that use the newest technologies for its business intelligence, data warehous… -
Retail Data Firm Quri Needs Rails Experts
Founded in 2010, Quri is the retail “truth detector.” The San Francisco-based, mobile and Web company provides crowdsourced retail intelligence to help brands and retailers solve product executio… -
Layoffs Coming Soon to Travelocity
A surprise agreement between online travel agency Travelocity and its larger rival Expedia doesn’t appear to be good for Travelocity’s IT staff. As part of the August 2013 deal between the online… -
How to Land a Job at Amazon.com
Despite a recession that kicked off in late 2007 and lingered for a couple years, Amazon.com's workforce has grown more than four fold since those dark, dark days. The Seattle-based Fortune 500 c… -
Hiring Advice for Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless has a massive footprint of small cell networks, which cover more than a million distributed antennae system and Wi-Fi locations in a wide variety of settings and reach more than 1… -
Global Games: Culturalize, Not Localize
While a lot of attention is paid to localization in game creation, many American developers don’t consider another important – some would say critical – aspect of design: culturalization. If you’… -
The Disappearing Women of IT
It’s no news flash that women are an endangered species in IT. While we make up 57 percent of the workforce at large, we only represent 25 percent of professional computing occupations -- and tha…