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Ryan Craig

Los Angeles

Author and Writer at Freelance

Senior Contributor at Forbes

Achieve Partners, author Apprentice Nation, A New U, College Disrupted, https://t.co/TMmqfiKaM5 #skillsgap #lastmiletraining #hiretraindeploy #apprenticeship

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  • 1 week ago | forbes.com | Ryan Craig

    At a recent Achieve team dinner, the discussion turned to someone’s friend, a recent business school graduate, who was raising a search fund in a bid to acquire multiple heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) installation and maintenance businesses. Oddly, several colleagues also knew other recent MBAs who were attempting similar “HVAC rollups.”Coincidence? An HVAC rollup is a long way from the well-traveled B-school path of joining an investment bank or consulting firm.

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ryan Craig

    "Honey Boo Boo" Is A 19-Year-Old College Student Now, And Here's What She Looks Like TodayI feel ancient now. She went viral for her hilarious one-liners (as seen above) on Season 5 of the TLC reality television show Toddlers & Tiaras. Then her time on Toddlers & Tiaras landed her a spin-off show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo alongside her mother June "Mama June" Shannon, and sisters Lauryn …

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Ryan Craig

    My first decent job was as a waiter at Oliver’s Bakery Restaurant in Toronto. I learned a lot at Oliver’s. I learned that every Saturday at 7 a.m., blue haired Lois would sit at her favorite table and expect a cup of freshly brewed coffee + blueberry muffin straight from the oven.

  • 1 month ago | barrons.com | Ryan Craig

    About the author: Ryan Craig is Managing Director at Achieve Partners, a private-equity firm investing in the future of learning and earning, and author of Apprentice Nation: How the “Earn and Learn” Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America. If the market reaction means anything, President Donald Trump’s trade policy may not be playing out as he expected. That is almost certainly the case when it comes to his stated goal to bring back lost manufacturing jobs.

  • 2 months ago | forbes.com | Ryan Craig

    In the great debate over the return on investment (ROI) from college, no organization looms as large as Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). CEW got into the ROI business in 2011 report with its report on The College Payoff, which calculated a $1M “college premium” based on the fact that college graduates have lifetime earnings of $2.3M while high school graduates earn $1M less.

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Ryan Craig
Ryan Craig @ryancraigap
16 May 25

RT @DavidPBLRoss: AI Is About To Make Us Redesign Education Around Work via @forbes https://t.co/zkkHQWwKBx #GenAI #dtech @ryancraigap #fut…

Ryan Craig
Ryan Craig @ryancraigap
16 May 25

What if the AI-in-school debate is a distraction from a more fundamental problem? Focusing on how AI should be used to help students learn is trivial in comparison to solving for how to give students experience using AI to actually do things. @Forbes https://t.co/62HImlzDd4

Ryan Craig
Ryan Craig @ryancraigap
25 Apr 25

America’s Factory Era Isn’t Coming Back. Where the Jobs of the Future Really Are. @barronsonline https://t.co/JGP9Vcm6EU