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This is an interview with Marc Cosentino, the author of “Case in Point,” which has been the best-selling consulting case interview book worldwide for over two decades. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.When I started working at Harvard’s Office of Career Services in the late 1980s, I didn’t expect to spend the next 18 years helping students break into consulting. I had just been laid off from my job at Fidelity Investments. A few months later, I found myself at Harvard College.At Harvard, I became the business counselor or, as the students liked to call me, “Keeper…

Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Although a pre-shutdown funding increase for tribal colleges and universities was welcome news, college leaders are uneasy about the country’s financial commitments. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Ruth De La Cruz, food sovereignty director at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, sorts through squash in an office at the school Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in New Town, N.D. (AP Photo/John Locher) Ruth De La Cruz, food sovereignty director at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish…

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — On a recent chilly fall morning, Ruth De La Cruz walked through the Four Sisters Garden, looking for Hidatsa squash. To college students in her food sovereignty program, the crop might be an assignment. But to her, it is the literal fruit of her ancestors’ labor.“There’s some of the squash, yay,” De La Cruz exclaimed as she finds the small, pumpkinlike gourds catching the morning sun.The garden is named for the Hidatsa practice of growing squash, corn, sunflower and beans — the four sisters — together, De La Cruz said. The program is part of…

My internet bill crept up by about $15 a month over the summer. I know I can likely lower it by comparing rates to a competitor company, but I’ve been pushing off that phone call because I’m exhausted from dealing with automated systems, long call wait times, and automated voices that can’t decipher what I’m saying when I beg to speak with a human.It all seemed more work than it was worth. But what if I could outsource this chore, for free?Using a generative AI voice tool, I was able to turn myself into an agent. Agentic me was tasked…

With a ceasefire reached last month largely holding, humanitarian officials are working frantically to reopen dozens of makeshift schools in the Gaza Strip. UNICEF estimates that over 630,000 Palestinian children missed out on school during the war. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Students attend a morning assembly at a school set up on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Students attend a morning assembly at a school set up on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bissan Younis looked dejected as she stood outside a cluster of tents surrounded by rubble and debris, a wasteland that is a common sight across the Gaza Strip. The tiny encampment was yet another makeshift school that has no room for her teenage son Kareem.“Most of the schools are destroyed,” she told The Associated Press. “Every school I go to tells me there is no room.” More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group. Instead of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in strong numbers this fall despite fears that a Trump administration crackdown would trigger a nosedive, yet there are signs of turbulence as fewer new, first-time students arrived from other countries, according to a new report.Overall, U.S. campuses saw a 1% decrease in international enrollment this fall compared with last year, according to a survey from the Institute of International Education. But that figure is propped up by large numbers of students who stayed in the U.S. for temporary work after graduating. The number of new students entering the United States…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Arlina Yang, a junior at the University of California, Davis. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified Yang’s employment history.I came to the US in 2019. As an immigrant from Taiwan going to UC Davis, a non-target school, Big Tech was a dream that I didn’t think I could have.As an immigrant, I lacked a lot of parental guidance. My parents don’t really know anything about tech, let alone job applications.I had to figure everything out on my own — meeting with university career counselors,…

From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families. In some cases, parents have been deported or voluntarily returned to their home countries, driven out by President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Others have moved elsewhere inside the U.S.In many school systems, the biggest factor is that far fewer families are coming from other countries. As fewer people cross the U.S. border, administrators in small towns and big cities alike are reporting fewer newcomer students than usual. In Miami-Dade County Public Schools, about 2,550 students have entered the district…

This past week, law firm leaders and legal-tech builders gathered at a schmoozy, invite-only retreat in Austin to discuss the future of the legal profession.The key debate was not simply whether lawyers should use AI, but how to buy it, and who pays.Run by the investment firm The Legal Tech Fund, TLTF Summit is a three-day event and the industry’s spin on the Sun Valley Conference. This year, panels considered staffing models, non-lawyer ownership, “innovation theater,” and unsanctioned tool use, or “shadow IT.”I attended the summit and spoke with lawyers and legal ethicists about how tech is shaping the industry.…