Table of Contents | January/February 2006

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Features

Filling the Void: Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum.
The Gucci Killers: Shanghai Tang has learned from its past mistakes--and now it's gunning to become China's first great luxury brand. Forget about cheap socks and DVD players. This is the next battlefield for global competition.; The Little Red Book of Branding; While most Chinese companies have yet to gain global visibility, within the People's Republic, homegrown brands are becoming a source of pride and a badge of the country's emerging self-confidence.
The Gates Effect: The world's biggest private foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places?
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart: Every year, thousands of executives venture to Bentonville, Arkansas, hoping to get their products onto the shelves of the world's biggest retailer. But Jim Wier wanted Wal-Mart to stop selling his Snapper mowers.
Scenes from the Culture Clash: Companies are just now waking up to the havoc that the newest generation of workers is causing in their offices.
Patently Aggressive: Forgent Networks sues software giants for patent infringement. Is it protecting inventors--or driving a stake through the heart of innovation?; Squashing the BlackBerry?; They call it "CrackBerry" for a reason. Once you've gotten your hands on a BlackBerry, the wireless email device now carried by more than 3 million people across the country, life is never the same.
Fuel for Thought: His $10 million X Prize proved that money can drive big ideas. Now he's looking for more of them.
Fast Talk: Clean Sheets: Boutiques such as the W made hotels sexy. Now the concept's getting stale. Five next-generation innkeepers take the experience way beyond a mint on your pillow.
Hot Seat: Room & Board built its business as carefully as it creates furniture. Now it's moving in on the competition--and taking a place at the table.
Being There: DreamWorks Animation couldn't find a videoconferencing system that made CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg happy--so it built its own.
The Test Prince of Bel-Air: Robin Singh tapped his genius for logic to go from lowly Kaplan tutor to LSAT rock star.
Is Offshoring Good?: The head of an Indian consulting firm and a high-tech-union president face off on the effects of offshoring and globalization.

The New Power Ratings: Companies sell us great products and services--but not what we really want.
Next Week: Sportacus Takes on Krispy Kreme Man: Combine Teletubbies with Thighmasters and you get LazyTown, the popular TV show that gets kids up off the couch.
A Blog Masala: Take a virtual voyage to the subcontinent and its emerging economy via these Indian business-related blogs.
Game On!: The folks who bring us shark fishing and Ted Nugent are set to make a serious run at sports TV's kingpin.
Antiwar Games: While a student in Serbia, Ivan Marovic cofounded Otpor ("resistance"), which helped topple Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship. Now Marovic, 32, is out with a video game, A Force More Powerful: The Game of Nonviolent Strategy. He talks about why gamers make the best revolutionaries.
This Will Make Your Skin Crawl: A new concept could let your own epidermis become a medical monitor.
Getting Inside Your Head: A company that "fingerprints" brain activity to gauge emotional responses has attracted interest from Madison Ave. to the CIA.
The eBay of Programmers: Rent A Coder matches projects with software developers from around the world.
Survey: A Small World After All: Your competition is everywhere. And increasingly, "everywhere" includes emerging markets.
When Worlds Collide: What happens when a performance artist meets MIT engineers?
Datebook: Critical calendar listings for January 2006.
It's Print. It's Online. Will It Sell Ads?: Can the newspaper business be saved?
Inno-waiters With Whine Lists: How to turn wispy ideas into reality? Join us for dinner at the Breakthrough Café.
Today's "Kitchen of Tomorrow": The first in a series of visionary tales inspired by the great corporate marketing films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Playbook

Thrown Into the Deep End: Learning how to swim the rough waters of a new job.
Watercooler: States with jobs, cool podcasts, and job venting in this month's buzz roundup.
In Good Company: How Max Barry went from corporate drone to successful novelist and screenwriter.
Hidden Las Vegas: Odds are, business or pleasure will bring you here soon. Here are a few ways to live it up--after you've crapped out.
Here's My Card...: When font selection isn't enough to keep your business card on top, enter video.
Reading List: FutureShop: High-tech is hot again. This month's book finds riches in the eBay economy.
Other Recommended Reading: Experience the Message, The Wal-Mart Effect, and Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst.
The Corporate Shrink: The art of the cold call, and how to cope with life's rough patches.
Home Run: Your old job comes calling, begging for you to return. Here's how to decide whether to go back.