BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Brainiac
- a highly intelligent and creative employee who is also unpredictable and eccentric
Wiktionary Definition for: Brainiac
- #(''slang'') a very intelligent person
Additional Resources
- Losing momentum? As Toyota faces quality and sales setbacks, questions arise about its production system.(Industry overview)
- CLOUDS OF PERCEPTION, BOTH GOOD AND BAD, OFTEN hang over the head of the smartest student in the classroom. Some peers express admiration and seek the brainiac's help. Others show jealousy through revile. But what happens when the unthinkable transpi CLOUDS OF PERCEPTION, BOTH GOOD AND...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Field Guide to the Sales Prevention Police
- There are exactly two categories of employees inside every business: the ones that sell or help sell and the ones who prevent selling from taking place. Most companies are infested with the latter -- aka the "sales prevention police." Here are the five most toxic members:The Overstuffed CEO...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire Candidate?
- In some ways, the ongoing struggle for the Reform Party nomination, between Pitchfork Pat Buchanan and physicist John Hagelin, resembles your basic schoolyard squabble between a bully and a brainiac. SO NOW, IN THE LATEST weird twist to the weirdest political story of the year, a few states have decided...
- Research articles 2000-08-08
- Clubbed to Death
- Barack Obama, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, describes himself as "a skinny guy with a funny name." Pundits call him the rock star of the Democratic Party. A Harvard brainiac who dazzles crowds and wows donors, Obama, the son of a Kenyan and a Kansan, would...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Baby geniuses: vouchers for prodigies?
- WHAT DO YOU do when you're a single mother trying to get by on a schoolteacher's salary while scrambling to feed the ravenous educational needs of your brainiac son, who read novels in a second language by age 6, attended community college courses at 7, passed the high school proficiency...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Brainy Billick's brightness begins to burn out in Baltimore
- No NFL coach talks quite the way Brian Billick does, a man who rarely greets a simple question with anything but a sociological dissertation. Baltimore's loquacious coach is smart, and he knows it -- and he wants to make sure you know it, too. Or, as a friend of mine...
- Research articles 2005-10-12
- Critic's corner
- *The competition in Thursday's opening prime-time slot continues to stiffen. I wouldn't dream of missing UPN's Everybody Hates Chris or ABC's Alias -- which currently boasts a guest run by Angel's Amy Acker. But another Buffy/Angel alumnus might just force me to make room for Smallville (WB, tonight, 8 ET/PT):...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- Data devotee.(The Business of Life)(Professor of Economics, Austan Goolsbee)(Brief article)
- Byline: Christina Le Beau Austan Goolsbee, 36, the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, graduated from MIT and Yale and taught class on his wedding day wearing a tux. What a brainiac reads: ...
- Research articles 2006-03-27
- Big Three get a Wake up call
- Ask a random sample of North Carolina residents what is the state's main research hub, and most would probably say the Triangle. With three major universities and Research Triangle Park, one of the nation's oldest corporate research campuses, the region's brainiac reputation is well-deserved. But despite all that mental muscle,...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Bill Romanowski: Brainiac
- The first concussion suffered by Bill Romanowski over his 16-year NFL career came during a game against the New Orleans Saints. Romo was a rookie linebacker for the 49ers, and the play was a counter-trey, the pulling guard rolling to his left. The guy's knee came in hard against Romo's...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- This Way Out
- Megan Smith plans to take PlanetOut out of the closet and into an IPO. When you think about the picture of a business or cultural revolutionary, the image of Megan Smith may not readily come to mind. After all, Smith--with her petite, athletic build and low-key demeanor--comes across more...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- AstraZeneca, Targacept and Epix in Race for OTC "Memory Pill"
- AstraZeneca and Targacept are developing a memory enhancing pill that they hope could be available OTC for students who want to study harder and professionals who don't want to forget what's on the next page of their PowerPoint show. They are in a race for a similar approval with Epix,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- College Scholarships for "B" Students
- Sure I'm jealous of my 11th-grade son Ben's brainiac friend, Nathan. The top-ranked colleges are sending Nathan admission love letters. He's gotten marketing packets from Harvard, Columbia and Duke. As a result, Nathan's parents aren't worried about paying for college. But here's the good news for kids...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Heroes must again save the world from Brainiac.(LIFE)(ZADZOOKS: THE WORLD OF COMICS)
- Byline: Joseph Szadkowski, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Superhero and cartoon characters have become integral parts of the electronic entertainment industry. Around the world, youngsters and guys who can't get dates spend countless hours in front of their computers and video-game systems. With...
- Research articles 2006-11-11
