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Amid widely-publicized corporate scandals, global environmental threats, and powerful advances in biotechnology, says ethicist Paul Root Wolpe, big companies find themselves tromping through an ethical minefield, desperately in need of […]
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In this excerpt from his Floating University/Great Big Ideas lecture, Dr. Michio Kaku explains that string theory begins where Einstein’s framework breaks down.
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Brad Burnham, Managing Parter at Union Square Ventures, explains that internet piracy isn’t always a matter of stealing for the sake of stealing. Often, it’s about gaining access when none has been made available.
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Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, on the power of changing the way you think.
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Roberto Diaz, former first chair of the National Symphony Orchestra, explains how exactly you go about bringing 80 to 100 musicians together in one synchronized, improvisational team.
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All organizations make mistakes. The economist Tim Harford argues that organizations need to create a culture where these mistakes are revealed, exposed and corrected as soon as possible.
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This 30-second spot was produced by Rick Perry’s campaign to run in Iowa in advance of the Iowa Caucus. The spot went viral on Youtube.
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Confidence is a mark of intuitive thinking regardless of whether intuitive thinking is expert intuitive thinking or heuristic intuitive thinking.
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Important aspects of how we live today will shock the consciences of those who look back on us, says Summers, just as we are shocked by the consciences of those […]
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“One of the problems with promotions is that we promote people based on outcomes, not about the quality of their decisions,” says Ariely.
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Harvard Professor Lisa New describes how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables speaks to classic American responses to economic crisis.
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Brenzel presents five takeaways from reading the classics.
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In this amazing video, aerial acrobat and dare devil Yves Rossy jumps from a helicopter and flies over the Swiss Alps using a jet pack. Rossy then joins two jets […]
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
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The President of Human Capital at Mercer, a global consulting firm, discusses one of the most interesting findings of the firm’s international “Inside Employees’ Minds” survey.
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The whole process of how we design and create future generations is changing. Your grandchildren, maybe your children, maybe even you, are going to reproduce differently than your grandparents did.
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This video depicts police at the University of California, Davis pepper-spraying seated protestors.
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Essential Value of a Classic Education,” Jeffrey Brenzel, Philosopher and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at […]
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Essential Value of a Classic Education,” Jeffrey Brenzel, Philosopher and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at […]
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There are so many advances going on right now in biotechnology that really have a wow factor,” says Arrison. “Gene therapy to cure cancer and tissue engineering, growing brand new […]
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There is going to be more and more debate and controversy as to what constitutes a heavy element given the fact that it only exists for a brief fraction of […]
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Among the counterintuitive facts leadership expert Jim Collins has uncovered is that personal charisma is largely irrelevant in successful leadership. In fact, it can be dangerous.
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