Eric Kandel: Leonardo, for one, spent a fair amount of time dissecting human cadavers because he wanted to know how the various bones related to one each other and how the muscles related to the bones. So he wanted to have a realistic understanding o
What’s the Latest Development? This week, hearings will begin in New York City over whether its “stop and frisk” policy, which gives police the right to stop innocent individuals on the street, constitutes racial profiling. According to a report rele
Life is a long process of getting used to things you started out to change. – Frank A. Clark As the story goes, it was on June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, that a smoky bonfire on a raised platfor
The new leaders pledged to combat income inequality and corruption.
The mail-management app will stay as its own standalone app. Dropbox, the popular file shortage startup, is buying the email app Mailbox. Under the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported, the 13 employees of Mailbox’s owner Orchestra Inc. will join D
Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their pot
An interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. For more, see the April issue of HBR. Download this podcast A written transcript will be available by March 22.
Lori Senecal, chairman and CEO of New York-based ad agency Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners (kbs), has learned a thing or two about climbing to the top. She worked her way up to president of the flagship New York office of storied ad agency McCann
Copyright. Innovation. Free speech. These firestarting issues and the relationship between creation, law and technology were the topics in a Sunday panel that just may have been the sleeper hit of SXSW. Speakers included Andrew Bridges, partner at Fe
For many years I’ve been looking for comprehensive, high quality, affordable training to help small business owners to grow their businesses profitably. At one stage, I tried to develop my own training system and spent a huge amount of time working o
