Voyage of Discovery
Communications (DCI) which airs Dirty Jobs has more than 100 TV networks reaching 1.5 billion subscribers. Here are four of DCI’s key properties.
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Get an exclusive behind the scenes peek at Dirty Jobs star Mike Rowe, getting good and dirty for Fast Company while romping with a bear.
Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money. By Clive Thompson
Order Versus Chaos
Duncan Watts's research tells advertising execs precisely what they don't want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be less effective than good old mass marketing.
How a Brazilian town best known for its Festival of the Ox became a marketing tool for the world's biggest semiconductor company. By Richard Shaffer
Making Friends, Creating Customers
Intel's World Ahead Program is an ambitious billion-dollar venture, but other tech and telecom companies are also building relationships in developing countries that promise to become the most massive of mass markets.
Infographic: A New World
Intel now gets more than half of its revenues from less-developed countries in Asia and the Americas.
Oil
It's a dilemma for investors who want hefty returns and a clean green conscience: Can you own Big Oil and still feel good in the morning? By Amy Feldman With R. Paul Herman and Sara Olsen
Energize Your Portfolio with Renewables
HIP & SVT examine 21 renewable-energy pure-play companies -- covering energy types as diverse as solar/photovolataic, wind, fuel cell, ethanol, and cogeneration.
HIP Methodology
Today's accounting systems only examine financial results (revenues, costs, taxes) and liabilities that are financially measurable. But a company creates many more impacts. The Human Impact + Profit methodology addresses that.
About the Contributors
We recognize those that contributed to the Sensible Investing: Oil project, including individuals from HIP Investor and SVT Group.
Podcast: Sensible Investing
HIP Investor and SVT Group founders R. Paul Herman and Sara Olsen on investors using sustainability to judge the viability of investing in oil.
Can legendary Bell Labs--and its struggling parent, Alcatel-Lucent--be saved by a "crazy risk taker" who's betting that innovation can be captured in a mathematical formula? By Jon Gertner
Lab Results May Vary
Bell Labs has the history, and Google--where engineers devote 20% of their time to personal projects--has the buzz. But other models of corporate innovation are also showing results. By Danielle Sacks
Q&A: Mr. Fix-It
Chrysler, Morrison Knudsen, Bethlehem Steel--in crisis, all called Steve Miller. In The Turnaround Kid, out February 5, the Delphi chairman writes about working for Lee Iacocca and saving some of the old economy's oldest companies. By Jeff Chu
Speaker For Hire
Colin Powell’s speaking engagement at the International Franchise Association annual convention cost the organization at least $100,000.
The Journal-ist: Matters of Perception
In this month's look at journals and academic reviews, studies on optimism in business, lucky execs, aesthetics in e-commerce, and smells and flavors online. By James Kuczmarski
Infographic: Numerology:the Oscars
The golden guy looks good for an octogenarian. Jon Stewart presides at the 80th Academy Awards on February 24. Here's a look at the business--and science--of the Oscars.
Abbott's new absorbable stent could change heart surgery and revive a $5 ?billion business. By Amy Feldman
Infographic: Stented Growth
The worldwide stent market peaked in 2006. Since then, new evidence of problems with drug-coated stents has hammered sales. Abbott, though, with its plain stents, has increased its share. Now, the company is betting that bioabsorbable stents could be the next big thing in unclogging arteries--and growth.
Pfizer devises a new kind of outsourcing--just for the time-wasting parts of your job. By Arianne Cohen
Infographic: How Much Work Can You Off-Load?
Pfizer conducted internal studies to find out just how much time its talent was losing on menial tasks and how much of that work it could outsource.
The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria. By Elizabeth Svoboda
Is Bacteria Fuel the Next Big Thing?
While LS9’s research seems promising, bacteria fuel will have some competition to become the fuel of the future. Here’s a look at how it compares with three other major players among alternative fuels.
The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth. By Phil Patton
Why you'll learn to love the next wave of Web-based work apps. By Robert Scoble
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Robert Scoble is a technology enthusiast and video podcast evangelist. Here you will find his magazine columns and web exclusive videos, as well as excerpts from his blog citing the best of the tech web.
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