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If you have a big idea, chances are you’ll have to raise capital to make it happen. But don't limit yourself to just looking for someone to cut a check.
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The CEO of Ruckus Mobile Media explains how he recognized the digital shift in the publishing industry and decided earlier than others to jump in feet first.
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Driven, achievement-oriented people are often particularly uncomfortable with the risk of failure. At the same time, complacency is a sure-fire recipe for personal and professional atrophy; if we’re not moving […]
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Asher Edelman advises the Fed to instruct both the President, his advisors, and Congress that monetary easing alone or monetary policy alone, can never revive the economy.
Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West […]
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Are you cultivating the critical relationships at work?
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There’s a Brain Drain Race going on between the world’s economic leaders – a scramble to snap up the "best and the brightest" immigrants from poor and emerging nations. As […]
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"When you are part of a failed venture, as long as you didn’t lie, cheat, or steal," says Sahlman, "then you’re considered experienced. And in fact, to the extent people […]
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In this video, Max Bazerman avoids an examination of Bernie Madoff’s ethics--which is best discussed elsewhere--in order to focus instead on the managers of feeder funds that aided Madoff.
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Former New York Times Ethicist Randy Cohen tackles the ethics of asymmetrical relationships.
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Former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki says thinking too much about your personal brand is a slippery slope toward egomaniasm.
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From 1999-2005 Doug Edwards was the Director of Brand Management for Google. He says that a radical change of environment can refresh your perspective and create opportunity.
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The "Oracle of Oil," T. Boone Pickens warns that America needs to produce more of its own gas and oil now, and focus for the future on renewable energy sources […]
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Former New York Times columnist Randy Cohen tackles the ethics of love in the latest in this Big Think series.