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Viewpoint My 14-year-old daughter and her friends text each other constantly. Even when they’re all gathered together in the food court at the mall their skinny fingers are blurs upon their touchpads. The... |
Latest Thinking In very short order, crowdsourcing has begun to affect just about everything. It has been five years since Jeff Howe’s article in Wired magazine coined the term to describe the practice of... |
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Succession Self-interest is what gives the world its shape. That’s a view first promulgated by Adam Smith, and hardly any economist disputes it. Self-interest is what infuses people with... |
Extras Five months later, Toyota’s ceo Akio Toyoda was forced to appear before a US Congressional committee over widespread vehicle failures. In emotional testimony, he apologized for the company’s... |
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Extras Formula One’s growing global fan base, estimated at perhaps half a billion worldwide and expanding in places such as India and Abu Dhabi, includes one notable unexploited market, the United States... |
Extras How, then, can leaders, in the words of Pierre Casse, a professor at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, “create an environment open to luck”? Here are the keys. 1. Keep an... |
