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April 11, 2024

Get hired! 5 tips for maximizing your spring career search

Stanford Career Education offers tips and resources for job searches, internship opportunities, and getting the most from a career fair.

Stanford Graduate School of Business — March 24, 2024

To make the best choice, listen to your gut

Intuition plays an important role in good decision making, says Baba Shiv. “If emotion were irrelevant, we would’ve evolved very differently.”

STANFORD magazine — January 29, 2024

Take the ‘ack’ out of feedback

Management lecturer David Dodson has a six-step framework for delivering constructive criticism that lands the way you want it to.

January 22, 2024

Eight simple things you can do for the environment

Stanford experts share their favorite tips for incorporating sustainability into your life at home, at work, and in your community.

January 11, 2024

5 expert tips for behavior change in 2024

Looking to eat better? Exercise more? Get unstuck in life or career? Stanford scholars offer research-backed advice for making moves in the new year.

January 9, 2024

How to hold better meetings

Resolve to make your meetings matter with these six tips from communications expert Matt Abrahams.

August 10, 2023

How to watch the Perseid meteor shower this weekend

Conditions are favorable this weekend for seeing flaming bits of ice and rock streak through the sky.

STANFORD magazine — July 21, 2023

How to talk to your partner about money, work, and family

Stanford experts on how to have productive conversations with your significant other about money, work, home, and family.

July 18, 2023

How to appreciate art when you’re on vacation

If you’ve ever stood in a crowded museum gallery wondering if you were doing it right, these seven tips from Stanford experts will help.

STANFORD magazine — March 15, 2023

What happens when you meditate

Here’s how becoming more present changes your brain, and some tips for getting started.

February 8, 2023

CareerEd events offer advice for every stage of the job hunt

A new events calendar makes it quick and easy to find just what you need, for everyone from frosh to PhD candidates.

STANFORD magazine — January 4, 2023

The resolutions collection

Whether you want to be kinder, wake up earlier, or reset your relationship with food, STANFORD magazine’s collection of expert advice can help.

December 13, 2022

Just in time for the holidays, how to (agreeably)disagree

Stanford scholar Dan Edelstein shares his tips for civil discourse: be willing to change your mind; be curious about why others feel the way they do; avoid name-calling or labels; share your personal experiences; and practice active listening.