Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts—foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries—seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global […]
In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living. She believes that there is something very wrong with GDP. An economist at the University of California at Berkeley, she has long been troubled by the fact that classical economics […]
Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our means of earning a living, and disrupt our culture to prevent their extinction? People living in rural Africa are being asked to do just this by the world community. The Myth […]
William-Henry Ireland was nineteen years old in 1795 when he handed his father a document that he claimed was written and signed by William Shakespeare, and alluded to a trunk full of such documents that belonged to a mysterious Mr. H. by whom he was employed. His father, along with an impressive group of scholars, […]
One of the connected economy’s most thought-provoking mavericks, David Weinberger is a senior researcher at the Berkman Center. He is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, a national bestseller that has been translated into twelve languages and is considered one the seminal books about business and the Internet. A tenth anniversary edition was published in […]
Jon Coleman grew up in Boulder and received his BA and MA from the University of Colorado. he traveled east for his Ph. D., graduating from Yale University in 2003. Since 2004, he has taught early American, environmental, and western American history at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the rank of full […]
A consultant and educator, Bill Welter helps organizations succeed by helping managers excel and prepare for their tomorrows. He connects Louis Pasteur’s quote of “Chance favors the prepared mind” with today’s business realities. His workshops have been conducted for McDonaldâs, Walgreenâs, Starbucks, the Institute for Management Studies, DraftFCB and others. He is the lead co-author […]
Daryl Twitchell is Managing Partner of Silver Ridge Advisors (SRA), a strategic consulting and investment firm that assists Fortune 500 companies and expansion stage mid-size enterprises. He has 20 years of experience in strategic consulting, product and business innovation, building companies into high-growth businesses, venture capital and strategic M&A. Daryl is the author, with Sugata Biswas, […]
In the fall of 1700, Awat’ovi, a Hopi community that had existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations, was decimated, its inhabitants the victims of a massacre carried out by their neighbors—fellow Hopi Indians. The story of that night, during which scores of men, women, and children were brutally slain, has been shrouded in […]
What is nature worth? The answer to this question – which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms – is revolutionizing the way we do business. In Nature’s Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of the Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also […]
Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts—foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries—seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global […]
Ethan J. Leib is Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He teaches in contracts, legislation, and regulation. His most recent book, Friend v. Friend: Friendships and What, If Anything, the Law Should Do About Them, was published by Oxford University Press. In it, he explores the costs and benefits of the legal recognition of and […]
Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; as well as co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy […]
Joshua D. Rothman is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2000 and where he served as Director of the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South from 2010-2016. A […]
Jocelyn Simonson writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change at Brooklyn Law School. Her scholarship explores ways in which the public participates in the criminal process and in the institutions of local governance that control policing and punishment. Her forthcoming book looks at bottom-up interventions in the criminal legal system, […]