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Sprinting in Place: Leadership in a Demanding Marketplace
Companies like Apple need to constantly innovate just to maintain their present position. This is the harsh reality that businesses must face in the increasingly competitive global economy. Harvard Business School's Linda Hill has advice for leaders in these challenging times.
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Who Will Be the New Global Innovation Leaders?
It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.
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Open Source, Open Culture
The way copyright law is written doesn't reflect the "rip, mix, burn kind of scenario" that is the modern age. -
Innovate, Or Get Out of the Way!
"I define an expert as someone who can tell you exactly how something can’t be done," says X Prize founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis. In order to make radical breakthroughs, you need to ask the right questions of the right experts.
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How Art and Science Collide at the CERN Physics Laboratory
38 minutes ago
“Knowledge is limited,” Albert Einstein once said, “imagination encircles the world.” A new program at the CERN physics laboratory, home to the Large Hadron Collider, takes Einstein’s words as their mantra. Collide@CERN hopes to invite artists of all disciplines to work as artists in residence at ... Read More
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Rage in the Age of Engagement
about 5 hours ago
I write about the intersection of politics and the digital. These days, digital touches everything. I suppose I could write about anything, then, but I tend to write about things political (broadly defined to include policy and news media, of course). But I suppose I will stray at times. Don’t ... Read More
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Leaders in Peace: Nobel 2011
about 9 hours ago
What's the Latest Develoment? Three female leaders share this year's Nobel Peace Prize for their activism in Liberia and Yemen. "Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia and Africa's first female head of state, shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with fellow countryman Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni ... Read More
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Berry College: The Biggest and Almost the Most Beautiful Campus
about 9 hours ago
So TRAVEL AND LEISURE has ranked the place where I teach eighth in the nation in terms of beauty. That's news, of course, to those who have the leisure to travel a lot, and we expect to be overwhelmed by such vistors soon. I think we might be ranked too low. No. 5 Florida Southern, for example ... Read More
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Bernanke's Dilemma
about 9 hours ago
When a country’s politicians can’t get their economic policies right, what’s a central banker to do? Though central banks are supposed to control inflation, that’s not always their only job. The Federal Reserve Act, for example, gives America’s central bank a mandate of “maximum employment ... Read More
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Why Are Suicide Attempts So High Among LGB Teens?
about 10 hours ago
In 2005, 45% of gay, lesbian, or bisexual youth attempted suicide in the US, compared with 8% of heterosexual youth. Some individuals have gone on the record to say that homosexual youths try to kill themselves because they know that what they are doing “is unnatural, is wrong, is immoral." I ... Read More
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Habituation from Thought: Thinking Can Enhance Self-Control—in Eating and Elsewhere
about 14 hours ago
Last December, a series of provocative studies appeared in Science. The finding: imagine eating a food, over and over and over, and you will eat less of it when you are actually given the opportunity to do so. At first glance, it seems completely counterintuitive. Don’t we get hungry when we watch ... Read More
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Salvaging “Having it All” from the Dust Bin of History
about 17 hours ago
These days, I find myself trying to rehabilitate the Having it All dream. I guess I miss it. My generation turned on it--although not without reason. To try to have career, family, marriage, and friends is to battle against institutions that still imagine a “worker” as a middle-aged man with a stay ... Read More
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Sprinting in Place: Leadership in a Demanding Marketplace
about 24 hours ago
What’s the Big Idea? When the iPad2 hit the market last March, people lined up for hours outside Apple stores across the country. These customers were excited by reports saying that the second-generation iPad was thinner, lighter, and faster than its predecessor. As if these improvements weren’t ... Read More
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Is America a Christian Nation?
1 day ago
My latest article has been posted on AlterNet, Conservatives Want America to be a "Christian Nation" -- Here's What That Would Actually Look Like. In it, I analyze the "Christian nation" rhetoric of the American religious right, illuminating the historical reality they'd love to forget - that their ... Read More
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Did Steve Jobs give good advice?
1 day ago
Steve Jobs' death yesterday unloosed a torrent of well-deserved encomia to the man and his genius. Jobs' abundant talents as an engineer, designer, and capitalist are beyond dispute. But did he give good advice? Ever since Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO, the video of his 2005 graduation address at ... Read More
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What can neuroscience teach us about evil?
1 day ago
Not much. At least, that's what I think. Ron Rosenbaum discusses the question at length in a thorough and thoroughly interesting piece in Slate. Rosenbaum's discussion confirms my impression that neuroscientists think the ability to fabricate colorful and misleading technicolor pictures of brains ... Read More
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Overcoming Adversity
Leaders in Peace: Nobel 2011
Three female leaders share this year's Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in Liberia and Yemen. Many say the Nobel committee has returned to its roots after years of controversy.
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Seeing the Unseen
The Future of Innovation at Apple
To continue growing and maintain investor interest, Apple will look to overseas markets. For technological prowess, the company will rely on the management groomed by Steve Jobs.
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Learning From Failure
In Business, Fail Fast and Often
Founder of the D.I.Y. jewelry company Stella and Dot, Jessica Herrin saw the need for action when her business began to fail. A quick reaction to bad times is what counts, she says.
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Overcoming Adversity
Should Women Avoid Male-Dominated Companies?
Former Xerox C.E.O. and Chairman Anne Mulcahy says women should steer clear of companies that do not already have female board members. Is she right?
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Personal Management
Why M.B.A. Programs Don't Create Leaders
The very nature of business school is at odds with the idea of creating tomorrow's leaders, says Drew Hansen. M.B.A. students often lack the big picture as well as people skills.
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biotech
Stem Cell Breakthrough
In an "important step" in stem cell research, scientists have for the first time succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg.
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nanotechnology
Researchers Hide Objects with Mirage Effect
Scientists have created a working cloaking device using sheets of carbon nanotubes which create the “mirage effect” observed in deserts or on long roads in the summer.
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robotics
Monkey Achieves Brain-Machine Milestone
The gap between controlling an artificial limb and feeling a physical touch has been bridged via a virtual prosthetic hand that monkeys were able to control using only their minds.
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