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Top 20 Reactions From Pundits and Politicians on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

BY Kevin Ohannessian
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM

President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a lightning rod of debate. Here are the best quotes from the maelstrom.READ»

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Leading Ideas: The Power of Acknowledgement

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Wed Jun 8, 2005 at 7:58 AM

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Medical missionary, ...READ»

OBAMA | 10 comments

Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

BY Jennifer Vilaga
Relevancy Score: 40
Fri Oct 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM

The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT | Comment

Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

BY Fiona Robbins
Relevancy Score: 38
Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 11:45 AM

Barack Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate change conference after much speculation.It is suggested that he will attend the conference on 9th December, before appearing in Oslo the following day to accept his Nobel Peace ...READ»

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Our Fellow Americans ...

BY The Spy
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

GENDER RELATIONS | Comment

10 Things You Didn't Know About Women

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:42 AM

Ten things you didn't know about women, and a review of Clay Christensen's new book.READ»

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 1 comment

Credit For All

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Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 3:41 PM

For Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, access to credit is a human right. Providing credit to the world’s poor, Yunus believes, clashes with the profit-maximizing goal of conventional ...READ»

MINLAM ASSET MANAGEMENT | Comment

Create A New Category – Build A Profitable Niche

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
Relevancy Score: 32
Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM

On Wednesday I started an examination of an investment strategy firm that specializes in microfinance, Minlam Asset Management. As I interviewed one of Minlam’s founders, Mike Hokenson, I noticed a reoccurring theme that I see ...READ»

OBAMA | Comment

Obama Backtreads, Nominates Agri-Biz Lobbyists to Key Posts

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 30
Fri Oct 9, 2009 at 3:06 PM

Well, that didn't take long. The afterglow of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people" has already faded. The President has stirred up controversy ...READ»

SOCIAL PROBLEMS | Comment

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 29
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM

Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

DEFORESTATION | 2 comments

Are CO2 Emissions From Deforestation Exaggerated?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 29
Wed Nov 4, 2009 at 2:14 PM

It's easy to shrug off climate change deniers who use incomplete or inaccurate data in their arguments, but it's a harder pill to swallow when supposedly reputable organizations dupe us with exaggerated claims. Yet that's exactly ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | 8 comments

A More Powerful Path

BY Cheryl Dahle
Relevancy Score: 28
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:15 AM

Changing the way we think about change--and bringing business into the act.READ»

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 13 comments

Microcredit Entrepreneur wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 3:40 PM

A simple business plan based on the concept of microcredit just won Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus was awarded the prize today for the bank he founded, the Grameen Bank, which provides average loans ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Bosses from Hell

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 24
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:57 AM

A rogue's gallery of the manipulative, abusive, grandiose -- and downright crooked -- executives who have strutted their way across the stage of American business.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Pop! Till You Drop

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 23
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:14 AM

For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.READ»

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | 8 comments

Jack Welch, A Proponent of Conscious Capitalism?

BY Lewis Perkins
Relevancy Score: 23
Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Right now, denizens of young corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are fighting the good fight –getting investors and their corporate leaders on board with new and more sustainable ways to view business – are perking up at the recent words from former GE Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. If you have been reading my blog, you have followed my discussions of sustainability as a part of corporate consciousness for the past months. Today, I was pointed towards the latest word from Mr. Welch, publically stating that it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains. Wait, wasn’t it Welch who originally created the “shareholder value movement” in the early 80s? READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH | Comment

What's Possible

BY Mark Albion
Relevancy Score: 22
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:38 AM

"One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible." -- Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and repeat winner of the Tour de France I attended the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. The event ...READ»

WORK/LIFE | 3 comments

Work/Life: If Confucius Were Alive Today

BY Tom Stern
Relevancy Score: 22
Fri Sep 28, 2007 at 6:17 AM

Today is the birth anniversary of Confucius. The influential philosopher was born in 551 BC, and, unlike me, is pretty much synonymous with sage advice and deep meaning. The very phrase “Confucius say…” prepares us for ...READ»

MILEY CYRUS | 5 comments

Miley Cyrus Leaves Twitter, Yet the Internet Limps On

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 19
Fri Oct 9, 2009 at 12:42 PM

The departure of Miley Cyrus from Twitter has caused seismic waves of socio-technological uproar--or so you'd think by reading elegaic posts from the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Reuters, MSNBC and, perplexingly, NJ.com, all of whom ...READ»

INNOVATION | 9 comments

Business 3.0

BY Andrew Zolli
Relevancy Score: 17
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:18 AM

The oblivious capitalist's days are numbered.READ»

ASIAN PHILOSOPHY | 1 comment

Good Cause, Good Ideas, Good Money

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
Relevancy Score: 17
Thu Aug 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM

When I pull up to the village in which my mother grew up in Bangladesh, I feel like I'm on the set of a cowboy movie. Two long streets cross in the center, each bordered by a well-planned lineup of storefronts. From this ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

Fast Talk: Life Savers

BY Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 15
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:47 AM

It is the most important industry the world will ever know--keeping people alive. It's a huge undertaking by physicians, researchers, product engineers, and more. We asked some of the best: How do they save lives?READ»

INNOVATION | 9 comments

Unplanned Obsolescence

BY Richard Shaffer
Relevancy Score: 15
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

Grameen's famous Village Phone Program lifted thousands out of poverty-- and helped Muhammad Yunus win the Nobel Peace Prize. The problem: It's not working anymore.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS | Comment

Leading Social Change

BY Anni Layne
Relevancy Score: 14
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

Paper(media) experiments with cutting-edge technology and maverick design techniques on Web sites for pro bono clients such as Doctors Without Borders.READ»

CREATIVE PUBLIC GOVERNANCE | Comment

Creative Public Governance

BY Kam Yew
Relevancy Score: 13
Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 1:22 AM

7 Progressions to Creative Governance Introduction Creative Public Governance requires courage to use unconventional ideas for social change that to bring tangible benefits to the people. Though not labeled as such, ...READ»

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