Guest post written by Bill Harris Bill Harris, former CEO of PayPal and Intuit, is now CEO of Personal Capital, a financial advisory firm. There's a fissure that runs through Silicon Valley - and I don?t mean the San Andreas fault. The gap that I'm talking about is between tech companies and their employees. Tech ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:16

Why is there a lack of innovation in educational technology for school-aged children? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steve Song.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 18:55

? With fuel prices currently at a national average of $3.80 a gallon and almost certain to break the $4.00 barrier by Memorial Day, you may be tempted to trade in your existing vehicle for one that gets better fuel economy to help assuage the pain at the pump. You certainly won't be alone. ?Car ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 21:53

Remember on Seinfeld, when George Costanza's dad decided to rebel against the commercialism of the winter holidays and celebrate a holiday called Festivus instead? One tradition was to stand around the Festivus pole and air your grievances. Well, the spirit of Festivus must be in the air because lately, it seems, quite a few people ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:54

The man who revolutionized health care for the poor will bring a different agenda to the Bank.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 15:27

Jonathan Franzen thinks that Twitter is "unspeakably irritating." Here's why he's wrong.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 22:53

Mark Cuban: Hoping for change. Mark Cuban wrote a nifty little blog post today on the Yahoo patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook that is almost certain to be taken the wrong way by casual readers. But make no mistake: there is a serious message that he is trying to deliver about [...]

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:34

Mark Cuban wrote a nifty little blog post today on the Yahoo patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook that is almost certain to be taken the wrong way by casual readers. But make no mistake: there is a serious message that he is trying to deliver about the morass that is the state of current U.S. ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:55

Whether they realize it or not, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson are constructal theorists. Their new book, Why Nations Fail, "answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor" and then goes on to, "conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it)." So it's not the landscape, it's the flow configuration, just as Adrian Bejan's Constructal Law predicts.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 21:53

Guest post written by Jack Newton Jack Newton is CEO and co-founder of Clio, a Vancouver-based company that offers Web-based practice management software for solo practitioners and small-to-medium sized law firms. When it comes to any business, success boils down to the decisions you make. Sound decisions help you grow. Bad decisions hold you back. ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 00:26

Since the election of 1800, and even before that in the inspiration for the American Revolution itself, the American people have always voted and fought for economic growth and prosperity.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

? ? The first week of Spring is also ?hooray, regulation? week at the White House. Regulatory policy chief Cass Sunstein, one of the most accomplished and cited legal scholars of all time, has been busy. He penned a Tribune oped called ?Why Regulations are Good ? Again?; issued guidance to Federal agencies on "Cumulative ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 17:55

Why, you might ask, are billionaires propping up the campaigns of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich when Mitt Romney will almost certainly garner enough delegates to win the Republican nomination? Flow strategy, my friends, flow strategy. Whether they know it or not, the Republicans are employing the Constructal ?s principle of the ?flow of four?: ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 03:56

Return on equity is a time-honored metric designed to measure a company's ability to turn assets into profits. According to theory, a company with the highest ROE among its peers is most likely to bring the best returns to shareholders. But investors these days should be very skeptical of taking ROE at face value. Consider ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:25

Instead of pandering, he should crusade against real evils like child trafficking.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 13:15

Instead of pandering, he should crusade against real evils like child trafficking.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 14:15

A war on porn? Santorum's for it.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 16:53

Stories in video games should be experienced. Tom Bissell has written quite possibly the best thing about Skyrim that I've read. There's so much to admire (and, as a writer, to envy) in his review, I'm tempted to just excerpt the whole thing. I won't, naturally, but I'm going to lean [...]

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 19:40

Everybody loves coffee, right? Wrong. Explaining the science of how most of us are groomed to crave coffee, and how some of us just never acquire the taste for the bitter beverage.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56

While saving money to??declare??bankruptcy sounds odd, that?s exactly what many people have had to do since the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was passed. Many??families??wait for their tax rebate to file for bankruptcy, and this trend has been increasing as costs related to filing have gone up. According to new research from ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 19:25