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Thanks to huge loans from the Chinese Government, solar manufacturing has shifted from being led by a geographically disperse group to one dominated by Chinese companies.
The financial crisis and its excesses have spurned alternative banking initiatives. One of them is ethical banking, which stands for total transparency and invests only in the real economy.
The rest of the euro zone is losing patience with Greece. Germany is even working on scenarios exploring what would happen if Greece left the euro zone.
In what some see as the opposite of globalization, many Gulf countries have been investing in foreign farmland, mainly in fertile Africa, to serve as their bread basket.
U.S. Government attempts to drive up the price of medicine in developing countries, as described in leaked cables, amounts to state-sponsored violence, writes James Love.
The contrast in China between today’s consensus-driven leaders and Zhu Rongj, 83, and still seen as an aggressive reformer with no tolerance for corruption, incompetence or red tape.
What made Zipcar, the on-demand, in-your-neighborhood, Internet-based car-rental service a magnetic product that inspires accolades from customers?
What role does pleasing others play in your organization or life? The fewer people you try to please the more focused, creative, distinct you become and the more you’ll be 'unpleasing'.
Looking to explain a new leadership model he saw gaining traction, organizational behavior expert Paul Lawrence found inspiration and answers in Darwin's The Descent of Man.
What this NYC Fire chief learned from his experience at the World Trade Center on 9/11, how it has affected his command style and the importance of the five Cs.
Entrepreneur and virtuoso exam-taker Shawn O'Connor explains how to unleash your brain's inner genius and conquer any test.
The Gates Foundation has made a new foray into the contentious field of GMO crops. This time it's a bid to develop virus-resistant cassava varieties for Africa.
IBM envisages tomorrow's computer as a big sandwich of silicon chips. It's teaming up with 3M to develop a special glue that would make the evolutionary leap in computing possible.
A Belgian company is working on mining landfills to remove raw materials and make energy and building materials out of them, and then redevelop the land.
Robots are bad at adapting to new situations, such as recognizing new objects, but researchers have found a way to make them better at figuring things out for themselves.
The same high-tech magnets used in MRI machines may soon be used to make wind turbines more efficient, thereby generating more clean energy from the wind.
Scientists believe ocean acidification—which is the trend again today—may have played a big role in the Earth's worst extinction crisis 250 million years ago.
With 70 percent of Japanese now saying they want to phase out atomic energy, legislators have passed a bill to subsidize wind and solar power.
Is fundamental physics too heavy on theory? Jon Butterworth says it's a hugely worthwhile exercise, unless you are utterly uninterested in understanding how things work.
Severe storms will become the new normal. Ensuring our cities have ubiquitous Wi-Fi, GPS, smart transit, and smart grids would be a smart way to make them more resilient.