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As leadership teams become more globally distributed, CEOs need to be more creative in the ways they foster a sense of unity and cohesion among them.

In our age of social media, CEOs should have a two-way dialogue with their broader constituencies.

CEOs must walk a fine line while doing business in China—where the opportunities are massive but the room for error is small. One wrong move, and you can be effectively […]

The global financial crisis and the Internet have transformed the relationship between business and stakeholder. The CEO Whisperer offers his advice on how to navigate through this brave new world.

Business leaders can no longer focus exclusively within the bubble of their company’s ecosystem; they must think about their global footprint, something that business schools don’t teach.

Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, accuses Bing of using Google data to improve its search results. Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate VP of Core Search Development at Microsoft, claims Bing […]

At Big Think’s search event in San Francisco, panelists and presenters talk about how new user interfaces and mobile devices are expanding the web into all aspects of daily life, […]

Water is nearly free in much of the U.S. But is pricing water at a higher rate necessary to maintain and improve an aging, inefficient water system?

Waste water is stigmatized, but it can actually be purified beyond the quality needed for drinking water. This makes it a viable solution to increasing water demands.

Old municipal water systems can leak away between 30 and 60 percent of water before it even reaches consumers—making the need for an updated, smart system even more pressing.

A conversation with the Chief Sustainability Officer of GE Power & Water.

Each year the world’s most powerful leaders meet at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to discuss how to remedy challenging and complex global issues. Yet this […]

The innovative structure of giant church congregations like Saddleback Church in southern California provides a model that businesses can emulate.

The co-founder of Field String Theory explains why the universe has 11 dimensions rather than any other number.

Propelling a spaceship with photons would be like trying to energize a spaceship with a flashlight.

Quantum computing already exists, but on a truly miniscule scale. We’ll probably have molecular computers before true quantum ones, says the physicist.

The Internet, the European Union, and the Olympics are all signs that, within the next 100 years, mankind will become a truly planetary civilization.

Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process.

Discovering the Theory of Everything would be the crowning achievement of modern science, allowing mankind to master time and space.

There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.

Theoretically, there could be people and planets made out of antimatter rather than matter, but where are they?

By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.

When you freeze human tissue, it may appear to be preserved superficially, but the ice crystals that form create massive cell damage, causing many cell walls to rupture.

Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promise of search technology, which he says is fixing many problems “that aren’t really problems.”

Peter Diamandis says that innovation is in the hands of small companies, not large corporations and governments that are risk-averse. Garry Kasparov argues the disinclination toward risk would rob us […]

If Social Media is the breakthrough development of Web 2.0, what is next in search for Web 3.0 and beyond? Peter Diamandis speculates on the evolution of search in the […]

Is the promise of search technology just a lot of hype, as Malcolm Gladwell suggests, or will our ability to employ breakthrough technologies in search, as Peter Diamandis argues, make […]

Can we make a better engine? Yes. Is the state of search technology the reason we haven’t found a cure for cancer? No.