Like James T. Kirk, Captain Jean-Luc Picard provides valuable insight for leaders in the present - and future.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 05:53

Lots of people have views about U.S. military spending. Liberals and libertarians think we spend far too much on defense. On the other side, Mitt Romney speaks for many conservatives in arguing that we should spend more: "If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth," says Romney, "I am not your President. You have that President today." But while we usually think of military spending in terms of foreign wars and joint strike fighters, we often neglect one of the biggest growth drivers of the U.S. defense budget: health care.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 05:32

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk, a world-wide leader in shipping, containers, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 04:24

Researchers at think they may have discovered why some people imbibe the social scene like smooth vodka, while others would rather drink rubbing??alcohol??than meet someone new. The difference may come down to two areas of the brain that underlie our response to new stimuli: the amygdala and hippocampus. ??The amygdala plays a crucial role in ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

Sam Bell asks a couple of good questions about our new patent paper: (1) Does the patent office itself not have an index of some sort? If not, how do they check applications against existing patents? (Surely there are not more patent officers with the time to do laborious discovery than patent lawyers with the ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

In time science will sort it out.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

In October 2010, Pfizer announced a marketing alliance with Biocon, one of India?s largest biotech firms, to develop generic (or biosimilar) versions of top-selling insulin products such as Eli Lilly?s Humalog. Pfizer would pay $200 million upfront and $150 million in potential future milestones. Now, just fifteen months later, Pfizer is cancelling the alliance. What ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

? The bidding groups for baseball?s bankrupt Dodgers appear to have been whittled down to five from seven tonight. A person familiar with the meetings held today between seven groups bidding for Frank McCourt?s Dodgers and Major League Baseball said the league?s owners were impressed with offers: billionaire hedge fund titan and agent Art Tellem; ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:53

I hate standardized tests. My daughter, a straight A student at her elementary school, was freaking out over taking the PSSAs, the state issued assessment tests in Pennsylvania, this week. She was a bundle of nervous energy, talking through a litany of ?what if?? questions, all of which appeared to revolve around some kind of ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:23

Beware the freakish, almost other-worldly hold that gasoline prices and their direction have on the American consumer. We react, and quickly, to a decided upward move by pump prices, and maybe even more to speculation that they?ll skyrocket. Already,?? in the space of a month, the inexorable eclipse of $4-a-gallon gasoline has supercharged the U.S. ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 03:23