An MP3 clip… Social networking has been empowered by technology. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, about the power of organizing without organization. [Tech Nation]

Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens — most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or …

The ups and downs of negotiating are challenging enough at home. Put yourself in another country — where the customs and conventions are often radically different — and you’ve got a recipe for awkwardness and …

In Hug Your Customers, Jack Mitchell showed business readers how to keep their customers happy — and their profits booming. In Hug Your People, he elaborates on his big secret: hiring, motivating, and keeping your …

An MP3 clip… Curiosity is usually seen as a quality in humans, a learning driver. When a one-month old puppy looks frightened and hesitant before a bright yellow tennis ball and finally jumps on it, …

An MP3 clip… Building a complete sub-mm robotic system capable of sensing, actuation and computation in an autonomous manner creates challenges which are several orders of magnitude greater than the envisioned robot size. Not to …

Based on more than twenty years of research, Who’s Your City? shows how a new economic unit — the mega-region — is the real driver of the global economy, and explains why mega-regions are diverging …

Over the past ten years, William Duggan has conducted pioneering research on strategic intuition and for the past three years has taught a popular course at Columbia Business School on the subject. He now gives …

As he did in his bestselling The Little Ice Age, Fagan unfolds both a scientific detective story, showing how centuries-old weather patterns can be reconstructed from scattered clues, and a vivid and timely historical narrative. …

The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that’s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, long-time president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to …

Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the best-selling The Innovator’s Solution, explains, through vivid examples at major companies like Sony, Microsoft, Vivendi Universal, Johnson & Johnson, and AT&T, that when most companies fail, it is not …