School-ranking website Niche ranks the best colleges in America in 2020 based on factors ranging from acceptance rates to median income six years after graduation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is at the top of the list. Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton occupy other top spots. Colleges across the US went remote during the spring semester to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. In the fall, several schools are considering continuing remote coursework, and some students are unsure if it's worth it to start or continue their college education without the full college experience. 

After nearly three months of quarantine, millions of Americans are ready to travel—an overnight trip, a weekend getaway, a summer sojourn. With states reopening, that’s now possible, with a caveat. Before the coronavirus, few people likely thought twice about staying in a hotel room, rental home, or cabin in the woods. But now, we have to factor in the potential for coronavirus exposure. Even if you’re okay with the travel risks taking you to your destination—plane, train, or automobile—what about the risks of the destination spot itself?

COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing strategies have led to a huge increase in the number of people working at home (working remotely). According to Gallup, by mid-April, 62% of US employees were working at home. Further, Gallup found that about half of the remote workers preferred to continue working from home, with another quarter interested in remote working out of pandemic fears.

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People dread asking for help from colleagues and strangers in the best of times. They worry about looking bad, being rejected, imposing on others juggling family and work responsibilities or taking up valuable resources.

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Nick Sonnenberg, an expert on remote work and the CEO and founder of Leverage, a 100-plus person fully remote company. Through building his company from the ground up and helping businesses of all sizes increase their productivity and go remote, he’s developed a few tips that any business owner can implement to make remote work actually work.

Our 3-day Digital RESI June conference came to an end yesterday, and we are very excited to announce the Top 3 Winners of the Innovation Challenge. Each participating finalist company had a dedicated page where you could view their virtual poster, short pitch, and other supplementary materials that the companies made available for viewing.

This ninth biennial TEConomy/BIO report focuses on the economic footprint of the industry geographically including the latest trends in the bioscience industry for the nation, states, and metropolitan areas. Check out state-by-state information on the performance of the bioscience economy.

Multiple vaccines will ultimately be approved for Covid-19, NIAID chief Antho ny Fauci told BIO yesterday, and the companies that make them should be allowed to profit, “as long as it’s not in an outrageous way.”

Many are contemplating their work and personal lives in the new normal, as they prepare for the adjustments they'll make as they emerge from the coronavirus quarantine. The Stanford Graduate School of Business (SGSB) is hoping to address some of those issues with Stanford Rebuild, a free, eight-week "global and innovation sprint and free entrepreneurial program to address key challenges emerging from COVID-19."

As multiple companies work to develop vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19, it will be important for them to work with the federal government toward an understanding with regard to fair pricing, but outright price controls could risk scaring companies away, a doctor helping lead efforts to develop drugs and vaccines for the disease told biotech industry executives Tuesday.

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Most entrepreneurs are eager to take external actions to increase their revenue, like building a better sales funnel or buying the newest “blueprint.” But if you want massive success, you should focus on making internal changes by rewriting what Cynthia Garcia calls your “Stuck Story.” 

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Join NVCA and Dynamo Software to take a deep dive into deal sourcing and portfolio management as the world adjusts to an unprecedented economic landscape. This webinar will cover sourcing deals from your home office, the state of portfolio companies, raising a new fund, and related operational challenges.

Even as societies and businesses race to reopen, the global pandemic still poses significant problems. This week, we documented an accelerating one: loneliness. In many parts of the world, the social fabric was already fraying before the pandemic. Now, as former US surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy, MD, points out, COVID-19 is disconnecting us further from our human relationships. That might cause a “social recession, with profound consequences for our health, for our productivity in the workplace, for how our kids do in school.”

California is one of the largest economies in the world, with a gross domestic product bigger than that of most countries.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program, we found the 30 jobs with the highest average annual salaries in California. BLS had reported annual salaries for 770 detailed occupational categories in May 2019, the most recently available data.

Some people crack under pressure, while others thrive in stressful situations. If you happen to fall into the latter category, you may want to consider a career as a urologist or an agent.  Business Insider combed through data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database that compiles detailed information on hundreds of jobs, to find the positions with a high "stress tolerance" score.  We then looked at salary data on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website to see which jobs have a mean annual salary of over $70,000. O*NET assigns each job a score between one and 100 based on the degree to which the job involves operating in high-stress scenarios with calmness.  Here are 18 high-paying positions with a "stress tolerance" score of 93 or higher.

Starting a company with a stranger is not the traditional path for many entrepreneurs, but this is one of the basic principles of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading talent investor. Matt Clifford, EF’s CEO and co-founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explain why he invests in founders before they have a business idea and other novel approaches to venture capital and innovation.

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 U.S.-China relations have not been so tense since before President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping agreed to exchange ambassadors in 1979. Attitudes have hardened especially in the last two months, in part because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in part because of the troubling developments in Hong Kong. Some voices in the Washington establishment are even advocating a “decoupling” of the deep, complex business connections between the two countries that have been built up over decades.

Thank you for your reading and interest in the news Top 20 biggest stadiums in the world, with North Korea on top - in pictures and now with details

Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - 20. The Bukit Jalil National Stadium near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has a seating capacity of 87,411, and is the 20th biggest sports stadium on earth. AFP

Tens of thousands of dollars are up for grabs in a competition for innovators who have ideas that could solve ocean industry problems.

The Ocean Startup Challenge is a project of the Ocean Start-up Project , one of the projects developed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster program.

The project aims to help entrepreneurs speed up development of their ideas and get those new technologies up and running for the ocean industry.

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The recently soaring level of unemployment in the U.S. is a stark reminder of the impact COVID-19 is having on our economy.

And while the worst of the disease outbreak is likely yet to come, the length of the economic downturn could be considerably longer.