Why Some University Towns Breed Startups and Others Don't
Geography isn't destiny for startup ecosystems. The real factors separating Silicon Valley from a sleepy campus town are specific and learnable.
Long ReadsNational Exams and the Minds Elite Universities Reward
The exam a country sets at 18 quietly determines which intellectual virtues its top universities prize, and which ones they never learn to ask for.
DesignWhat Campus Layouts Reveal About Research Priorities
The spatial arrangement of a university campus encodes its intellectual assumptions more honestly than any strategy paper. What the buildings tell us.