Topic: University of Texas at Austin

A Virus With a Charge

Innovation: Batteries built with genetically modified viruses Available: Prototype by 2008 In laboratories around the world, ever-ready scientists are charging to overhaul the common battery--for which the basic science hasn't ...READ»

The Taming of a Crew

Row, row, row your boat. The sport of crew teaches leaders true teamwork.READ»

The Taming of a Crew

Row, row, row your boat. The sport of crew teaches leaders true teamwork.READ»

Spray-On Solar Ink Could Be Just 3 Years Away

It's 2014. Instead of hiring workers to install solar panels on your roof, you spray solar ink all over the rooftop and sun-facing walls of your home. It's not science fiction--it could be reality in three to five years according to ...READ»

Kartik Ramakrishnan

"By age 30, the average Indian is married and has two kids. Let's just say that I'm not married and I don't have two kids. In some sense, that's the price I've paid for where I am today."READ»

Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips

Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips If you want top-tier business talent to fill positions in your office, look here first! MBA student and alumni online resume books are available to order right now! ...READ»

Found Money?

If you take intangible assets into account, annual productivity could rise 1-2%. That's, well, just tangible enough to consider seriously.READ»

Suck Up and Move Up

Sad to say, but a University of Texas study shows that sucking up is a good way to get ahead.READ»

Please Don't Feed the Consultants

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

Sustainability: Greening the Greens

What the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED ratings did for sustainable building design, a consortium of organizations is now trying to accomplish for landscapes and other outdoor spaces. The Sustainable Sites Initiative was unveiled ...READ»

Achieving a State of Trans

Brenda Laurel is chair of the graduate media design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Co-founder of Purple Moon, a girl-centric, girl-empowerment media company, Laurel also recently edited the MIT ...READ»

The Fad That Forgot People

One of reengineering's creators explains the iron triangle that turned a modest idea into a destructive fad -- and offers advice on how to avoid the next one.READ»

Katherine Hammer

Start It Up columnistREAD»

Katherine Hammer

Start It Up columnistREAD»

First.Site - Time for Zero Time

"Zero Time is about the ability to react instantaneously, to provide value for every customer at every opportunity. Without the Internet, you can't be Zero Time -- period."READ»

25 Top Women Business Builders

Meet the winners of our first-ever awards for women business owners. They're a dynamic, inspiring group -- with lots to teach us all.READ»

Sister Cities

Fast Company visits Houston, San Francisco, and Boston in search of female leaders with smart advice for tough times. Here, a dozen powerful women (and a few men) share their thoughts on leadership, crisis, and mentoring.READ»

Social Justice - Ernesto Cortes Jr.

"We organize people not just around issues, but around their values."READ»

This Turkey Really Has Legs

Greenberg Smoked Turkey runs no ads, takes no credit cards, has no toll-free number--and may not even want you as a customer. Is this any way to run a thriving mail-order business? Yes indeedy.READ»

There Is No Alternative to ...

How do you develop strategy in an uncertain economy? Meet TINA: There Is No Alternative. First, Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered the system of scenario planning to anticipate dramatic changes in the world. But when everything starts to change, the way to do planning is to focus on things that don't change.READ»

Collision Course

What happens when the defining industry of the old economy meets the defining medium of the new economy? Meet the in-the-trenches change agents who are working to reinvent Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen.READ»

Intangible Assets Plus Hard Numbers Equals Soft Finance

Finance used to be the hardest of business functions: number crunching, bean counting. Now hard assets like plant and equipment have given way to intangibles like ideas and relationships. How does the new math of the new finance add up?READ»

The Anarchist's Cookbook

John Mackey's approach to management is equal parts Star Trek and 1970s flashback. It seems like a recipe for disaster, but at Whole Foods it's a prescription for world-beating growth -- and maybe for a world-changing company.READ»

The Green Housing Boom

Forward-thinking architects and real-estate developers are already envisioning the post-bust cycle of home building. And smaller is better.READ»

• Building Green Homes
• How Big is Too Big?
• The King of Green Investing