Topic: Madrid

Careers: When HR Goes Too Far

While the streets of Madrid team with anti-globalization demonstrators, a multinational corporation pits seven candidates for a senior position through a cut-throat job selection process. The winner must be chosen by the end of the ...READ»

Coming to a City Near You

New York City submitted its bid yesterday for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the finals with Paris, Moscow, London, and Madrid. My question to you today, dear readers, is a two-parter: For those of you from Los Angeles, ...READ»

Sign of the Times: Abandoned Phone Booths Transformed Into EV Charging Stations

As cell phones become ever more ubiquitous, phone booths become increasingly irrelevant. But what to do with the thousands of virtually abandoned phone booths scattered in cities around the world? Madrid's solution is to turn these ...READ»

Would You Work Under a Tree?

A Spanish design firm trades its cubicles for a modernist cave.READ»

Selgas Cano Architecture Office: An Office Perfect for Forest Sprites

If you're a friend of the forest, it's hard to imagine a better office environment than the one that architectural firm, Selgas Cano, recently built to work out of, in Madrid. It's really not much more than a tube, sunken into ...READ»

Death Star? Golf Ball? Nope, an Iconic Solar Building

Thanks to sunny weather and massive public investment, Spain has quietly become a giant in solar energy. But few people know that -- which is one reason Madrid is investing in a massive symbol for its solar boom. The city recently ...READ»

Esther Koplowitz

he Esther Koplowitz Foundation, endowed in its entirety by its chairwoman, aims to provide assistance to the elderly, disabled and helpless and to minors and other persons facing problems of social integration or at risk ...READ»

Security: Power To The People

The myth of American omnipotence fell in the Iraqi desert, laid low by an agile new enemy. We have a chance now to rethink the systems that protected us in the past. It's one we cannot miss.READ»

Airline Merger Mania Could Blunt Effects Of Reduced Fares

True believers of competition have always questioned why airlines must still be national businesses regulated by agreements between countries. These 'bilaterals,' as they are known, regulate everything from the number of flights per ...READ»

Work/Life Balance: Smash it Up?

I was going to do something about how today is the birthday of both George W. Bush and Sylvester Stallone, but I got as far as GW shouting “Adrienne!” and Rocky pardoning Apollo Creed when the inspiration died. Imagine my good ...READ»

Feed the Models: A Manifesto

For the past 20 years, emaciated models have fueled the fashion industry as the standard for sex appeal and style. It all started with Twiggy in the 1960's, a skinny little pixie of an icon whose cute nonexistant thighs inspired my ...READ»

Top 5: Innovative Brand Logo Designs

A brand’s logo is possibly the most defining aspect of the brand itself. We have come to equate a single logo with an entire brand’s mission and purpose. Graphic designers call making logos “visual identity” projects, because they are essentially creating the identity of the brand and the people behind it. There are some obvious examples that are always circulating—Nike’s…READ»

Rio Wins 2016 Summer Olympics Bid

Rio de Janeiro? After years of speculation, a rigorous four-year $50 million pitch by Chicago’s bid team, and impassioned pleas by Oprah and, you know, the Obamas, Chicago was the first city eliminated as a possible host city for ...READ»

IBM's SAPIR: The Smartphone Image-Recognition App That Recognizes Everything

Ever looked at a vacation photo and wondered "where the heck did I take this?" IBM's got an image recognition system that should solve the problem--and it points to the future of smartphone tech. The name of this new technology ...READ»

London Lalling

My ride to work on the Tube yesterday was different. Commuters on London's Underground don't normally make eye contact, let alone speak to one another, but yesterday morning they were smiling and chatting as the front pages of their ...READ»

Fast Cities: New York

In the aftermath of September 11, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly built the most successful local counterterrorism unit in the U.S. and perhaps the world. The team, which has 600 experts that know some four dozen languages, routinely dispatches officers overseas for work in cities believed to be terror targets.READ»

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Saramago Terms Crisis as Crime against Humanity

Madrid, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago said the current global crisis is a crime against humankind and must be discussed as such "at public forums". IMF Admits it Underestimated the ...READ»

Olympic Committee Announces 2016 Host City, Ensuring MBA Student a Possible Bonanza

On just one day during last year's Summer Olympics, beijing2008.cn--the official 2008 Games Web site-- racked up nearly 200 million hits. That's a potential bonanza for the host that emerges from the pack of four 2016 finalists ...READ»

Harry Kraemer's Moment of Truth

In an era when the business section read like the police blotter, the CEO of Baxter International faced a tough ethical dilemma. And he did something noteworthy: He actually did the right thing.READ»

Careers: Bank of America Hires an Avatar

When I get a warm and fuzzy feeling about a bank it's usually because I'm watching a tearjerker TV commercial. Some bank has rebuilt a blighted neighborhood or loaned an underprivileged mom the dough to build a bakery. Until ...READ»

Tokyo Makes a Sun-Powered Bid for the 2016 Olympics

The world's largest city throws its hat in the ring for the 2016 Olympics by promoting its green technology and architecture.READ»

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom; Photoshoplifting; Dead Planet?

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. Click through to browse super-mega-resolution paintings, polish images on the web, and learn what we now know about Mars.READ»

A Fishy Expedition

How sushi became a signature dish on the global menu.READ»

Airport of Tomorrow

In Germany, engineering giant Siemens tests features designed to make air travel less awful.READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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