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Leaders Thrive on Information

Leaders need to be both broad and deep, and it helps if they can figure out what is coming. Where do they look for the right sorts of information?READ MORE

China Declares War Against Foreign Luxury

The upscale districts of Shanghai and Beijing sparkle with high-decibel status, from Armani to Prada to Burberry. The newly-minted Chinese upper class doesn't seem to mind this. But based on a report in this weekend's Financial ...READ MORE

Monoline Explained

The Financial Times put together an interactive web page about the Monoline insurers. You can watch and listen here As an aside, one of the great things about News Corp's purchase of Dow Jones, is that the FT is now online for ...READ MORE

Market Research Panopticon

A full-page story in the Financial Times (March 1, page 9) waxed lyrical about 'reality tv for the boardroom' and went on to describe the use of video footage to 'reduce the growing distance between the corporate elite and ...READ MORE

Pink Faces at Financial Times as It Pulls Amnesty's Crowd-Funded Anti-Shell Ad

This is the ad that Amnesty funded via social media last month. And this is the newspaper that turned it down. The Financial Times waited until "the last possible moment" to pull the full-page ad, according to Amnesty's U.K. blog, and ...READ MORE

Tech Companies Amassing Cash Billions, But Spending Frugally

According to the Financial Times, the ten largest U.S. tech companies have added $65 billion to their cash reserves over the last year. What are they doing with the money? Not a lot, it would seem.The FT pins the growth at something ...READ MORE

Smart Giving: Look Who's on the Board

Whether you're an individual, company or foundation, making a significant contribution, you can get a good idea of an organization's vitality and prospects for success by taking a look at who's on the board. As the editor and ...READ MORE

Meetings Matter

Over at the Nub, contributor Jon comments on a Financial Times article about the value of meetings. While there are many meetings worth participating in, many agree that most meetings don't work. To continue today's informal theme ...READ MORE

Coffee Potlatch

Where you work, do you have a shared coffee pot for the entire office? Do you have one of those newfangled single-cup brewing machines? Or do people stop off somewhere on their way to work -- and after lunch? In today's Financial ...READ MORE

Infographic of the Day: The Tangled Web of Carmaker Alliances

Among today's automakers, coop-petition is the new normal.READ MORE

Innovation: Increase Your Virtual Productivity

For all of you that trade in traffic jams and road rage for the serene virtual commute along the Internet superhighway every morning, here's a new take on air travel that I think you'll find compelling ... Listen as commentator Lucy ...READ MORE

The Turnaround, UK Style

We learned a lot in the New Economy, and while many businesses flailed and failed, some of the former Net Economy stalwarts are making a rebound -- particularly in England. Today's Financial Times reports on several notable ...READ MORE

2010: The Year of the Successful Online News Paywall?

Sweeping aside the controversy and nonsense surrounding the issue of online news content paywalls, the Financial Times has stepped up to the mark to note 2010 will see income from paywalls surpassing ad revenues. The FT Group's ...READ MORE

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway. According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ MORE

Climate Change Competition Finalists Compete for HP-Sponsored Prize

Update: John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today. You can read more about it here. The Financial Times and sustainable development charity Forum for the Future announced the ...READ MORE

Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ MORE

$5 Solar Powered Kyoto Box Wins HP Climate Change Challenge

John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered ...READ MORE

Help Me Understand! III

I think Seth should enter the next mobile phone-throwing competition in Finland. According to the Financial Times, "Qualification for the event consisted not of heats but explaining why they were unhappy enough with their mobile ...READ MORE

Why You'll Buy Apple's iTablet

The rumors surrounding Apple's tablet/netbook PC have worked up into a storm, far more than the drips and drops we've seen before. The various details suggest that it's really coming, it'll be great, and thus you will buy ...READ MORE

Robo.to Bundles Your Outgoing Calls With Video and More—Should We Worry?

Remember that pivotal moment in the horror film When A Stranger Calls, when the babysitter gets the news that "The call is coming from inside the house?" It's a jaw-dropping revelation. If the new app Robo.to has anything to do ...READ MORE

Books Worth a Look

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have announced the finalists in this year's Book of the Year Award, which include: John Battelle, The Search Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, ...READ MORE

Pushing the European Envelope

Last night over dinner, Leonardo Previ and I discussed the state of Italian -- and broader European -- business, as well as the tendency to look to America for new ideas, practices, and processes. Many of the challenges we considered ...READ MORE

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 MORE

The True Sustainability Potential of Cloud Computing: Smarter Design

To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ MORE

Sex and the Boardroom

“Sex and the Boardroom: Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?” screams from the tip top of the front page of today’s Financial Times in bold letters, referring to a page 10 article by Luke Johnson entitled “The sex snare set ...READ MORE