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Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
Rapid advancements in technology continue to alter the foundations of business, redefining customer relationships, recalibrating business models and...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
When the concept of independent boards was developed, it was envisioned that boards would not just protect shareholder interests but also become a...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
Italy’s economy is in a sorry state. In the two years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the nation’s G.D.P. fell by some 10...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
When the Media Lab at MIT sought a new director last year, from a global list of candidates, it’s safe to say the recruitment committee did not...
Briefings Magazine
Feb 2013
T. Boone Pickens, 84, doesn’t do anything halfway. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, Pickens followed his father into the oil business....
Briefings Magazine
Nov 2012
When it comes to producing creative business leaders, a Montessori education has proven to be a potent predictor of future success.
The unique...
Briefings Magazine
Nov 2012
Long before Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak, or Bill Hewlett met Dave Packard, Peter met Svend and begat Bang & Olufsen from a farmhouse deep in the...
Briefings Magazine
Nov 2012
The New Math for Manufacturers: Made in the U.S.A.
What a difference a decade makes. After a 10-year binge of building low-cost production...
Briefings Magazine
Nov 2012
In the early 1970s, 55 kids at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School found themselves playing an odd little game with some visiting adults...
Briefings Magazine
Nov 2012
An Interview with Robert J. Stevens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, the Lockheed Martin Corporation
You could say the hundred-year...