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Open-Source Product Development II

Last fall, I pointed out that video game makers were starting to open their development processes so customers -- gamers -- could actually modify their products... and help develop their own. Now a newspaper, the Columbia ...READ»

University Sprawl

My college, Columbia University, is planning a takeover in West Harlem. Within 25 years, University officials say, Columbia will expand with a new, $7 billion, 17-acre, Renzo Piano-designed satellite campus in "Manhattanville." ...READ»

Closing Remarks: The Changing Face of Marketing

From closing remarks by Columbia's Berndt Schmitt at the 2006 Corante Innovative Marketing Conference: Here's what *hasn't* changed about marketing: We still need to develop products, we stll need strategy, we still need ...READ»

Safwan Masri

Professor of Operations Management and Vice Dean of MBA Programs at Columbia Business SchoolREAD»

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Eat This American Idol

A friend of mine who works for a record label was telling me how he and his coworkers are obsessed with CBS's new music industry dramedy "Love Monkey" (much in the same self-obsessed vein as us media folk and our beloved gawker.com). ...READ»

Readers Choice Voting Kicks Off!

Ah, nothing like a huge pile of mail after a long weekend. As you can probably guess, people send us a lot of business books in the hopes we'll feature them in the magazine (or right here on the blog). As I rifle through this month's ...READ»

Job Loss and Long-Term Earnings

Perhaps you saw the article in the New York Times this week, “Income Loss Persists Long After Layoffs.” If you missed it, I recommend that you read it, but I warn you that it is depressing news.The article reports on the ...READ»

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Another Good Reason to Work From Home...

If you’re one of the four million people who ride New York City’s subway system everyday, you know how awful a train sounds as it comes screeching to a halt in the station. But, you may not know that it’s ruining your ...READ»

DAN HEATH   |  Comment

Making Strategy Simple

Start here, with the column my brother and I wrote about making your strategy simple enough to be actionable. For more depth, see the Simple chapter of Made to Stick--it includes the full story of the Dunn Daily Record ("names, names, ...READ»

Market Failure in the Media Sector

Eli Noam is a professor of economics and finance at the Columbia Business School, as well as director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). CITI is a research center that concentrates on strategy, management, and ...READ»

Meet the world

From brazilianartists: Caro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team that produced the flags campaign which has been ...READ»

What Emergency?

This week's New Yorker Financial Page, the weekly column by The Wisdom of Crowds author James Surowiecki, certainly caught my attention. Since reporting and writing this story several months ago about what we can learn from ...READ»

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Vertical Farms, a Tower of B.S.

Urban farming might be ridiculous--but ridiculousness has its uses.READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Internet for Everyone

  Yesterday, at the Personal Democracy Forum in new York, a coalition of media, policy, and advocacy experts launched a new initiative that calls on Congress and the president to act in the public interest by enacting a ...READ»

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The Post-Big Era: Will Small-Scale Ingenuity Replace Large-Scale Architecture?

The extra-large architectural complex--art museums, libraries, office complexes--built so prolifically over the past decade are commonly described as expressions of civic pride. They might just as easily be called grandiose ...READ»

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Featured in the May Issue of <em>Fast Company</em> Magazine

How to Tame the Boss from Hell, page 86 Ambition, self-confidence, even a little bloodlust have pretty much been prerequisites for success in American business. Yet, Andrew Park reveals how some of the most intimidating executive ...READ»

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Designing the Future

News typically doesn’t get blended in with art. Nor does the information in a lot of paintings, sculptures or other forms of art usually incorporate statistical or cerebral information. But an innovative new exhibit on display at ...READ»

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Tech Award Laureates: PATH Ultra Rice Brings Nutritious Meals to Developing Countries

We've already looked at a few of this year's Tech Awards Laureates (Solar Ear, Cows to Kilowatts), which have been honored by the international awards program for developing technology that benefits humanity. But the laureate that ...READ»

In Search of the Perfect Laptop Case

Choosing a laptop bag is a personal choice. There are hundreds on the market that range from stylish laptop cases for executives and business professionals, backpacks for comfortable travel, and practical messenger bags for casual ...READ»

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Four Convicted in Pirate Bay Trial

The music industry won a major victory against copyright infringement today with the conviction of the four men behind the Pirate Bay, a file-swapping service with over 20 million members. The men were sentenced in a Swedish court ...READ»

Watercooler

What you'll be talking about this month when you talk about work.READ»

The Creative Odyssey

How idea companies get their ideas.READ»

Get Smart Part Two: Recruiting Report

Banking and consulting remain strong on B-school campuses, while techies spurn startups in favor of infrastructure companies and well-funded firms.READ»

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Insurgent for President!

It's election season, when voters turn into consumers and campaigns become vast marketing operations. What can we learn?READ»

Ivan Glickman
INNOVATION   |  Comment

Regulatory Contagion?

I had the pleasure to be on a panel on Capitol Hill last Friday sponsored by the Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute. The subject was whether the current financial crises and the likely push to rightly reregulate the ...READ»