Britain now faces a ‘Winter of Discontent’, which is what many commentators claim will happen each winter, taking their cue from the winter of 1979, when the country ground to […]

Why the new dean, Nitin Nohria, needs to stay focused on the “people realities” of the job.

America will continue to be more creative and innovative than China (for the time being), because entrepreneurship requires a sense of individuality.

Business schools may not have been focused enough on teaching future leaders how to keep an eye on the downside in an interconnected world.

Companies today need to think about sustainability across a variety of dimensions, says Light: “It’s water. It’s natural resources of all kinds. It’s also in a world of change of […]

Surprisingly, business education is very much the same as it was 100 years ago, say the outgoing dean.

A conversation with the outgoing Dean of Harvard Business School

PopTech–an organization focused on promoting social innovation and the spread of problem-solving ideas–has announced its inaugural class of 20 Science Fellows.  The fellows are early to mid-career leaders in fields […]

A quick programming note: I’ll be off on the Geosciences Fall Field Trip – this year down to the Smokies of southern Tennessee/western North Carolina/northern Georgia – so there won’t […]

"The foods you eat often affect how your neurons behave and, subsequently, how you think and feel. From your brain's perspective, food is a drug." This is your brain on food.

MIT historian John Dower examines the history of American militarism through its justifications for military expenditure, namely that other cultures lack the capacity for Western logic.

"Collaboration yields so much of what is novel, useful, and beautiful that it's natural to try to understand it. Yet looking at achievement through relationships is a new, and even radical, idea."

"How do you get your hands on power? And how do you keep hold of it once you’ve got it?" The Economist says that management gurus are surprisingly disappointing on this subject.

"Many vital crops capture the sun's energy in a surprisingly inefficient way. A borrowed trick or two could make them far more productive." The New Scientist on improving photosynthesis.

"Some robots can already sustain damage and reconfigure themselves, like how our bones heal after we break them. Now others can deceive other intelligent machines and even humans."

"Women who go through early menopause and cannot have children were offered new hope today after scientists found a way of getting ovaries working again."

"Can we, and should we, do without foreign correspondents?" What is the difference between a local blogger and a 'parachute journalist'? Newspaper economics may provide the answer.

The mysterious Jonathan Franzen is unraveled in an imagined conversation between himself, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. The author's new book 'Freedom' is the talk of the town.

While we consider the ability to ignore distraction crucial to a productive life, recent research shows that creativity is aided by the intervention of seemingly irrelevant occurrences.

The past few years have yielded a promising array of designs inspired by biomimicry, radically diverse in domain and application but unified by a common tangent of brilliant simplicity and […]