Tag Archives: Nobel

Tech Titans Talk Life-Changing Gadgets And NSA Reform in Davos

Posted on by

Tech titans took the stage on the first morning at the World Economic Forum for a panel focused on changes in the digital landscape: bandwidth, privacy, data and business transformation. The speakers...

Innovation Knocks, But At The Back Door Of The Farmhouse: Giannola Nonino And The Transformation Of Grappa

Posted on by

It was the mid-1970s in northern Italy, and Giannola Nonino had a business idea that would revolutionize an industry: to transform the ragged, industrialized distillation of grappa production into...
    






A Year Of Explosive Creativity

Posted on by

These days I feel like diving into the trenches to avoid the centenary of World War I — and all the rehashing of its causes and consequences. Was the assassination in Sarajevo really the tripwire?...
    






How Following The Leader Can Create Blind Spots

Posted on by

Instincts are generally helpful and occasionally disastrous. For instance, ants have genetically programmed responses to chemical stimuli. If an ant smells the pheromone given off by a dead ant’s...
    






To Foster Your Creativity, Don’t Learn To Code; Learn To Paint

Posted on by

Earlier this month, Samuel Arbesman argued in Wired that the world needs more generalists, dabblers and polymaths. He notes (and he’s certainly not the first to note) that the body of scientific and...
    






Use the New Year to Improve Your Behavioral Fitness at Work

Posted on by

This article is by Lee Newman, dean of innovation and behavior at IE Business School, dean of IE’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, a former consultant at McKinsey & Company and a...
    






The Book That Predicted Obamacare’s Failure — And America’s Rebirth

Posted on by

In three short months, Obamacare has exposed, with 200 proof concentration, the fundamental mismatch between government’s limited knowledge and its unattenuated power. The Administration is now “...
    






Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Sucessful Entrepreneur? Take The Quiz

Posted on by

Every entrepreneur is different. It couldn’t be any other way. Similarly, the companies they create are as unique as they are. That, too, is a given. And while, as we have seen, there is a common...
    






Billionaires Fund $3 Million Science Breakthrough Awards

Posted on by

The time has come for the Scientific Oscars. Many illustrious billionaires such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sergey Brin as well as Yuri Milner and Jack Ma have begun what are the outlines...