Topic: Harvard University

Where Do You Do Your Best Thinking?

Where do you go and what do you do if you want to have great ideas? The answer is perhaps not what you'd expect.READ»

Facebook Co-Founder Didn't Learn Anything From "The Social Network"

Today, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin took to the intertubes under the provocative headline: "What I Learned From Watching 'The Social Network.'" Let us save you the time: He didn't learn much. Played brilliantly by Andrew ...READ»

In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard

Recently, my old company Hewlett-Packard has been in the news--and not in a good way. I've been watching the coverage from the sidelines up to this point, but felt increasingly compelled to join the conversation and share my point of view. So here goes.READ»

National Digital Public Library Gets One Step Closer to Reality

A recently convened group at Harvard wants to combine the entrepreneurial energy of Google Books with the openness and public-mindedness of academia.READ»

The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You

The Social Network is not the feel-good movie of the year--certainly not for Mark Zuckerberg, or for the dozens of exceptionally talented men and women who created Facebook. They were, and are, brilliant, hardworking and imaginative people who managed to survive the uniquely fraught early moments of an online start-up. It was a swirl alright, but not the way the film would have you think.READ»

"Inside Job" Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Hopes to Help Send Bankers to Jail

"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»

Landscape Architect Walter Hood Aims to Build Community-Inclusive Spaces

Walter Hood transforms run-of-the-mill public spaces—city parks, highway underpasses—into pillars of the communities they serve. His goal: to prove that every place, and every person, can benefit from good design.READ»

LearnVest Connects Financial Literacy to a New Generation of Women

The LearnVest team is adopting ideas from the likes of Weight Watchers and DailyCandy to help young women improve their fiscal fitness.READ»

Why Companies Should Make Employees Take Naps

Naps are a powerful source of competitive advantage. The recent evidence is overwhelming: naps are not just physically restorative, but also improve perceptual skills, motor skills, reaction time, and alertness.READ»

"The Wire" and "Treme"'s David Simon, Others Win $500k MacArthur Genius Grants

Will New Orleans be a winner, too?READ»

Business School Ethics, The Clinton Global Initiative Way

"Everything has changed in society, except the classroom," says Vicky Colbert, founder of Escuela Nueva, at the Clinton Global Initiative earlier this week. While the rest of the world has begun to close the antiquated gap between ...READ»

Mark Zuckerberg Announces Details of $100 Million Grant to Newark Schools

Startup: Education, as the foundation is called, will be funded with $100 million of Zuckberg's own Facebook stock, and is not "an elaborate publicity stunt," says Newark mayor.READ»

Mark Zuckerberg Announces Details of $100 Million Grant to Newark Schools

Startup: Education, as the foundation is called, will be funded with $100 million of Zuckberg's own Facebook stock, and is not "an elaborate publicity stunt," says Newark mayor.READ»

Text Here for a New Job

The MIT offspring, Assured Labor, connects job-seekers with employers via mobile SMS.READ»

Why IBM Could Be Bigger Than Facebook in Social Media

Last week IBM announced a new software portfolio that is the clearest indication yet that social media has truly changed the business landscape.READ»

Organic Valley Is Recruiting Future Farmers of America

The cooperative of farmers is setting out on a national recruiting tour.READ»

How I Downsized Myself

After 22 weeks of dieting, I keep thinking back to a much-discussed article we published more than five years ago in Fast Company. Called "Change or Die." It was a bracing reminder of how hard it is for people to make deep-seated changes in their habits, even when they know the price of failure may be death.READ»

Daniel Kammen: Energy From Algae Is a Wildcard

Daniel Kammen: From our analysis, probably the most interesting feature about algae is that it's a wildcard. Algae might be a big player, but right now, it'll take some breakthroughs for us to see that. Daniel Kammen is ...READ»

Why You Should Care About Sean Parker: The Man Behind Napster, Facebook, and Chatroulette

Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»

Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign?READ»

How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite

Inside the World's most exclusive and most accessible club.READ»

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Leadership: Inglorious CEOs

Timing is everything. Could there be a worse time than now be a CEO?READ»

The Eyes Have It: Why Iris Scanning Rules

The company behind the Big Brother iris detection technology explains why it works so well -- and how advertisers, retail stores and the government are going to use it to invade our lives.READ»

Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers is rolling out iris scanning technology to create "the most secure city in the world."READ»

Mappiness iPhone App Measures Happiness in the U.K.

Discovering the effect your environment has on your well-beingREAD»