Creative Class

Microsoft’s new TV ad launched Saturday night during the NFL opener. Crispin Porter & Bogusky, the ad agency behind the $300 million campaign, has garnered much press about the odd partnership.

Many think the ad was a flop, but there sure has been a lot of buzz about the partnership, the campaign, and Jerry Seinfeld’s $10 million celebrity endorsement. Is Microsoft successfully changing its stale image compared to its creative rival, Apple? What do you think of the teaser ad?

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Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Branson. According to this story in Forbes, 73 of the world’s 1,125 billionaires dropped out of school along the way. An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal reports on research that says preschool is counterproductive - keep the kids home with mom and dad longer. Finland, where kids start school at seven, is seen as a model of education. Peter Drucker famously said that the resarch university would not survive the shift to knowledge-based capitalism.

So, do we need less school, or different kinds of school, or what?