Justin Fox, Time’s business columnist, worries that MBA programs have been structured to teach economics as a science, which it isn’t; he prescribes a way for these schools to change […]

Time Magazine’s Justin Fox explains how famed economist Robert Shiller’s background led to his prescient economic views, and tells us how Shiller reacts to the economic crisis.

Justin Fox of Time Magazine explains the appeal and the downfall of the rational market theory and tells us the next great economic theories and investment models.

Who says nothing interesting happens in this blogger's native Nebraska? One of the state's native species has helped scientists see the secrets of evolution twice in the span of a […]

As companies learn the advantages of third-party, virtual labor, Jonathan Zittrain believes that the human mind is becoming commodified as a sort of "ubiquitous computer." Here the Harvard Law professor […]

Ep Medsystems Termination Reinhard Schmidt, EP MedSystems' President and Chief Executive Officer commented, "We are very pleased to report our second consecutive quarter of record revenues. Our increased investment in […]

The story of the U.S. Patent Office official who resigned his post in the 19th century because he believed there was nothing left to invent makes a point about human […]

Sometimes peoples' views surprise you. When I heard Tim McCarthy, director of Harvard's Human Rights and Social Movement program, talk about gay marriage in his Big Think interview, I was […]

In the wake of Ted Kennedy's passing, leaders from all walks of life and on both sides of the partisan divide have paid their respects to him.  Many of Big […]

Hi there all, I am writing to you from sunny Barcelona having temporarily escaped the “winter of our discontent” that is August in the People’s Republic of Collingwood. Last Tuesday […]

How will we know when we have achieved success in Afghanistan? According to Richard Holbrooke, our special envoy to the region, "We'll know it when we see it." That's a […]

With the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver mere months away, the requisite issues have come up. Particularly the issue of performance-enhancing drugs among competing athletes. But a separate drug issue […]

Ronald Bruce Romberg

It's called "what is it?"

May Yahweh rest the Soul and Bless the Spirit of Senator Edward Ted Kennedy. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. He will always be remembered for his dedication to justice and the poor. Thank you, for being a part of this lifetime.

The honeymoon of new American liberalism begun by Obama’s presidential election seems to have died with Ted Kennedy. Reflections on the Lion of the Senate seem to come in three […]

An Irish Sunday Tabloid recently carried the following Headline on it's front page, "Kerry: I'll die young". For those of you who don't know, the Kerry in question is not a figure in Politics, not a Humanitarian,not a film star and not a pop star, not anymore anyway.

The friendly federal program you’ve come to know by its nickname, Cash for Clunkers, is officially defunct as of 8pm this past Monday, August 24th. Designed to get Hummers and […]

The New York Times reports that many graduates of the nation's top law schools are having a tough time finding jobs. The chickens are coming home to roost. Law, like the automobile and other businesses, need to change its ways to adjust to the 21st century.

A conversation with the director of Harvard’s Human Rights and Social Movements Program.