The American public anticipates that the coming half-century will be a period of profound scientific change, as inventions that were once confined to the realm of science fiction come into common usage. This is among the main findings of a new national survey by The Pew Research Center, which asked […] Read more »
Millennials in Adulthood: Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends
The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry— and optimistic about the future. CONT. Pew Read more »
Mark Penn: From Politics to Advising Microsoft’s Chief, Not Without Noise
Mark Penn has spent years spinning for politicians in Washington. Now his own career is the subject of spin here at Microsoft, where he has been handed a fresh role under its new chief executive. Mr. Penn, 60, joined Microsoft in 2012 as a senior adviser to Steven A. Ballmer, […] Read more »
Mark Penn, Ex-Clinton Aide, Moves in a Shake-Up at Microsoft
In the biggest shuffling of Microsoft’s executive ranks since the company’s new chief executive, Satya Nadella, took over, Mark Penn, the former aide to the Clinton family, is becoming the company’s chief strategy officer. The change will give Mr. Penn, who has been an executive vice president at Microsoft overseeing […] Read more »
The Web at 25 in the U.S.
… Since 1995, the Pew Research Center has documented this explosive adoption of the internet and its wide-ranging impacts on everything from: the way people get, share, and create news; the way they take care of their health; the way they perform their jobs; the way they learn; the nature […] Read more »
Microsofties Ponder Fate of Mark Penn in the New Nadella Regime
Of all the many executives on the “Senior Leadership Team,” called SLT for short at Microsoft, it’s pretty clear in talking to top execs that there is none that engenders more talk than Mark Penn. He currently reports directly to the CEO as EVP of Advertising and Strategy — having been […] Read more »