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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

This text is a brief introduction to the idea of Jus Post Bellum, from the point of view of the Just War theory
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Companies that ultimately win evolve their management models and experiment with the status quo, says bestselling author Gary Hamel.
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Business thinker Gary Hamel thinks accelerating change, fierce competition and knowledge becoming a commodity will fuel the fire for transforming how companies are run.
For many of the musicians that Big Think has talked to over the past year, becoming a rock star was only the first step of a much more ambitious agenda.  […]
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There’s no better time to innovate than during tough times, says management guru Gary Hamel, especially because the best ideas often require the least financial investment.
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Business strategy author Gary Hamel offers tips on how to cleverly cut company costs without jeopardizing your future.
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Management guru Gary Hamel argues that four factors are necessary to help employees excel: freedom, community, creativity and purpose.
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Bestselling business author Gary Hamel says that companies’ largest source of exploited value is the fact that staffers don’t unlock their full potential.
Add one more thing to the growing list of leverages China could hold against the United States: metals. China controls 95 percent of the world’s supply of mined rare Earth […]
First off, yes, it’s entirely possible that we’ve watched too many science-fiction movies, like I, Robot and the Matrix. But a variety of new scientific innovations, particularly in the world […]
Anyone who cares about our country needs to ask these questions!!
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A conversation with the founder and first principal of the Equity Project Charter School in New York City.
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We asked Zeke Vanderhoek, founder of a revolutionary public charter school in Manhattan, how he would reform the U.S. education system.
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Educators at Zeke Vandehoek’s New York City public charter school don’t have the typical job description.
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Zeke Vanderhoek, the brains behind a revolutionary charter institution in Manhattan, explains how to do it.
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The founder of a new charter middle school in Washington Heights explains the evolution of his radical idea.
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Zeke Vanderhoek, founder of Manhattan’s Equity Project Charter School, is banking on the instructors he’s chosen to run the place.
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The founder of Manhattan’s new charter institution remembers his life in the Teach for America trenches.
To this day, the biopsy is still the gold standard for diagnosing cancer. But there are definite limits to the procedure, one being that you only get a measurement at […]