Out of the Classroom and Into the Street

Charting a new course for B-schools and MBAs.

Grand Designs

Few organizations, Tim Brown says, are set up to allow much creative collaboration, and even those are often afflicted by a culture that mishandles the results. โ€œToo many ideas that get through to the market make it there because somebody senior is the one sponsoring them,โ€ he says, โ€œnot because theyโ€™re necessarily the best ideas.โ€

Brown, president and CEO of Palo Alto-based IDEO, looks to โ€œdesign โ€ฆ [ Read more ]

Why Are We in Business?

Ad man Roy Spence wants to know what your purpose is.

Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell discusses his book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which warns that a hunch — the first thing that pops into your head, before you learn all the facts — can be a powerful thing, something to be acknowledged and factored into your decision-making.

Will We All Be Unemployed?

With knowledge-worker jobs heading overseas along with manufacturing and service jobs, managers are worried, too–and should be. We asked leading-edge thinkers to envision the next economy and our place in it.