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Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen has developed a new way to spot companies making bold bets for the future. At the top of his list of today's business invotators is Marc Benioff.
Slavoj Žižek is rarely at home in his flat in the Slovenian capital: he is philosophy's answer to Bob Dylan, frontman of a live roadshow that shows no sign of ending.
Movies are Justin Timberlake's priority these days, but he also owns a part of MySpace, restaurants, a fashion line called William Rast, a record label and even a golf course.
An army of 800,000 crafters has made Etsy a hot start-up: profitable, well capitalized, growing. Rob Kalin, its on-again, off-again founder, insists on Etsy's antiquated values.
Most people know that Emily Dickinson was a great poet, but it takes a deep plunge into her collected poems to realize just how staggeringly great she was. Usually represented […]
Slate's resident advice columnist recently printed a letter from an adult child with a very unusual problem: Dear Prudence, My mother died a decade ago; neither she nor my father […]
“Do you know what the common point between Facebook, Google, Blue Jeans and Twist music is?” was the question Charles Thou, co-founder and CEO of Studyka asked Jason Calacanis at […]
For the past few weeks I have been going back and forth with Frank Cilluffo and Clint Watts over their paper on what to do in Yemen. (Their original post […]
I asked a friend of mine a few months ago how I would know when I had crossed the line with my economic analysis of sex and love to which […]
Maybe Americans have gotten smarter. Maybe we have started to realize, despite the disembodied economic statistics delivered by the serious and profound voices that ooze out of our TV's every […]
Pay attention to what isn’t there, not just what is. Absence is just as important and just as telling as presence.
After touching down early Thursday morning, the Atlantis shuttle is now officially a museum piece. It will be retired at the Kennedy Space Center Museum in Cape Canaveral, Florida. "Job […]
We've reached a unique paradox in American political culture today: Both liberals and conservatives view the mainstream media as biased, yet tend to believe that their own ideologically-like minded outlets […]
An improved process for making large amounts of pure metallic carbon nanotubes could hold the key to overhauling the electrical power grid with more efficient transmission lines.
The next year in tech will be all about the cloud, i.e. building connections between P.C. and post-P.C. devices, whether phones, tablets, game consoles, e-readers or Roombas.
The inventor of a new machine that decodes D.N.A. with semiconductors is one of several pursuing the goal of a $1,000 human genome—2013 is the industry's new target date.
Fighting the scourge of childhood obesity, the California start-up Revolution Foods is bringing tasty and nutritious school lunches to school districts that lack money to provide them.
Real estate mogul and creator of the Budget Suites of America chain, Robert Bigelow is working to develop similarly spartan accommodation in space. His inflatable hotels will launch by 2016.
Do charities exist simply to exist or do they exist to achieve something specific? Peter Thum says social entrepreneurship can address issues we once thought were impossible to tackle.
My brother Erik Nisbet, a professor at The Ohio State University, has a study out that casts important new light on how Americans reacted to the news of the death […]