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Schools need to be globally competitive. The best graduates from New York City’s schools are not competing for jobs with the best graduates of Boston’s schools; but with the best graduates in the world.
If we look at most of the world’s problems (poverty, disease, AIDS, hunger) the root cause is the lack of education. Nations need to improve their educational systems in order to improve their economies.
Amidst the all the discussion of President Obama’s Nobel Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences quietly made another political statement by giving the Nobel Prize in Economics to to […]
For the first time in over a year, the Dow today is flirting with the 10,000 point mark. Yet, insists Big Think’s recent guest Nomi Prins, unless you’re one of […]
Now that the Obama administration has characterized Fox News as a political opponent rather than a disinterested news outlet, people are debating the political fallout as well as the veracity […]
The human mind is full of contradictory impulses. For instance, I doubt that many of us want the President to do his own laundry. He’s not like us; he has […]
Calvin Trillin is one of America’s most versatile authors—from poetry, to humor, to important investigative journalism, his work stirs envy in every type of writer. Trillin sat down with Big […]
New research on governance can have non-traditional or controversial results. So boards often resist the academic or big-think suggestions. Boards say, “one size does not fit all”, “it doesn’t apply to us”, or “our board is not ready for such change.” They are uncomfortable with the intrusion. Sticky topics are compensation, transparency and diversity. As economic and social researchers find new trends relating to governance, board traditions are challenged by social innovation.
Peter Sisson calls himself a serial entrepreneur, having founded three companies and just launched his fourth. His newest venture, Line2, is a company that hopes to change the way we […]
Days after protesters took to the streets in Rome and Barcelona against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his grip on Italian media outlets, the Italian courts have issued their […]
Professional poker champion Annie Duke is no stranger to crude name-calling at the table; it’s all part of being a successful female gambler. Duke has sat down next to so […]
Batten down the hatches, people who work in tech support from Bangalore to Bangor. Google’s tribute for today celebrates the invention of the bar code. Replacing those playground-friendly letters with […]
Today companies like HedgeLender LLC offer securities-backed lending structures that meet the needs of today’s financial consumers.
What happens when an influential hip-hop star proclaims that a certain brand of boots is suddenly out of style? Is it bad for business? That very thing occurred when Jay-Z […]
A pilot project presented before the Colombian embassy in London in 2007. The idea is to enhance the current infrastructure of the capital of Colombia for the teaching of Spanish language to foreign students. The objective is to sell Bogotá as the world’s capital of the teaching of Spanish language.
A lot of people are crying the blues over the slow demise of the home delivered newspaper. I’m not one of them although I’ve been a journalist my entire adult life.
Economist editor Matthew Bishop has a knack for looking on the bright side: in this age of capitalism, inequality and multi-billionaires, Bishop focus on potential rather than gloom. His book, […]
One of my parents works in a cardiologist practice, one of my siblings is a nurse and I myself am covered by the Spanish public healthcare system. While ours views […]
Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, takes humor seriously. In his pursuit of getting published in the magazine he submitted over 2,000 cartoons, and since he landed […]
The G20 is in Pittsburg, but the world economy seems to have skipped town. Nobody can find it anywhere—just some old clothes and pieces of straw. The U.S. Dollar is […]
One idea proposed to help keep news organizations afloat amidst the stormy seas of free online content has been micropayments. Imagine an iTunes for the news world: you pay between […]
Earlier this week, CEO of Timberland, Jeff Swartz came by the studio. He spoke about the successful branding of Timberland in the last decade, and how it’s recently gone off […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its opinion on Google Book’s proposed settlement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers concerning its massive digitization project which aspires […]
Eyewitness news is an old phenomenon for local television stations: a citizen’s video recording of a gas station robbery, or some such sensational event, becomes free “news” for the station, […]
One of the most intriguing pieces of business news last week was Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ return to public life, his first public appearance since October. After a six-month break […]
How many company pep rallies are filled with sports analogies? Guess what? Lots of us have no idea what you are talking about!
Some career journalists must feel like disenfranchised aristocracy. The high overhead of printing and distribution used to make quality content as rare, and therefore as valuable, as gold. But today, […]
A year and a day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, everybody—really, every single person I’ve heard comment from—is lamenting the lack of financial reform on Wall Street. Healthcare reform […]
Fewer than 20 percent of employees are “highly engaged” at work. That’s what Gary Hamel, management guru and bestselling business author, told Big Think during a recent interview. He believes […]