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Katrina vanden Heuvel gives the story behind the guide for free thinkers across the country.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about The Nation as an institution in American journalism.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel explains where she sees reporting today.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the impact two cities have had on her life.
Today kicks off the 2009 Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor groups such as SEIU and the United Steel Workers […]
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviewed philosopher J. D. Trout about empathy.During the course of a rather hostile interview, Trout invoked the image of the Roman […]
Duke University’s Laura Brinn cautions that all the panicking that seems to be going on inside American corporations in response to the financial crisis—”canceling investments, scaling back projects, drawing on […]
The Cato Institute today explores the problem of “invisible” trade barriers. “Although they are part of a large and growing segment of world trade — and a prominent feature in […]
I can already hear Andy Rooney complaining. In the continuing saga of the death of the newspaper, a recent thought experiment takes another punch at the New York Times. According […]
It’s been a busy birthday week between Robert Burns (250 years young), Wilmer Valderrama (29), and the Iranian Revolution (30).But lest you forgot to mark your calendar amid all the […]
Having successfully built itself into a global center of the Hello Kitty trade, Hong Kong is setting its sights on a still greater conquest: the wine world. Dominated by the […]
The Freakonmics blog yesterday highlighted the tragic absurdity of the Google Earth debate. While some British youth use the site to locate private pools to host illegal parties, evidence suggests […]
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Will Swope lets us in on a few of Intel’s developments and diagnoses the technological malaise in the US.
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Intel’s sustainability czar, Will Swope, is confident the technology compny will thrive during the current downturn.
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Will Swope explains how he seeks, retains and lets go of his employees.
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“Hi, we’re going to become a highly sensitive green sustainable corporation,” said the CEO of Walmart. It wasn’t their business model then, but now they are a global leader.
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Will Swope notes the glaring lack of strategy in many companies
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Will Swope explains how Intel remains financially agile both by saving money and cutting staff.
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Will Swope details the essential role that innovation plays at Intel and how he manages it effectively.
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Will Swope tells us how Intel adjusts to a constantly changing market by educating its employees.