The old industrial-age systems -- state communism, fascism, free-market capitalism -- have all let us down hard, and growing numbers of us understand that going back there isn't an option.
The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012
One private equity industry insider expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, which has c...
Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012
One private equity industry insider Thursday expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, wh...
Peter Alexander Meyers | Posted 05.20.2012
Greeks must decide to stay or go. Perhaps that is why it failed to come before the people. Perhaps that is why, when on May 6 the election was played out in a way that minimized the literal and more important question -- "Do you want to adopt the new agreement?" -- it failed again.
Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.18.2012
Before we go wild with our deficit-cutting scythe, let's make sure that we are not hacking away at our own feet in the process.
Andrew Tweed | Posted 05.17.2012
The ways in which an entrepreneur might best connect with venture capitalists has been covered by a number of other VCs across the web, but we thought it might be helpful for entrepreneurs to put this question into context by providing actual operating data regarding deal flow for our firm.
Michael B. Fishbein | Posted 05.09.2012
Innovation and progress requires experimentation -- trial and error. Unfortunately, for entrepreneurs with ideas for "startup countries," there's no way for them to experiment. It's not like the software industry where all you need is a laptop.
Allessandra Bradley-Burns | Posted 05.08.2012
This is not a story about race, although it may seem so at first. I will leave that reflection for another day. Instead, it is about how a country chooses to embrace and create solutions when faced with something that has impacted each of us personally.
Yujhan Claros | Posted 04.26.2012
While the GOP prances around Washington on a religious moral high-horse calling upon the sanctity of marriage, the GOP also hypocritically picks and choses what morals are convenient for the purposes of winning votes.
Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012
Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road? Communist China, ironically.
Robert Koehler | Posted 04.19.2012
We have to begin thinking and organizing ourselves beyond the arbitrary constraints of nations and beyond our current, resource-devouring economic system. We have to imagine a global culture that doesn't pit humanity against nature.
Bruce Judson | Posted 04.13.2012
A corporation that knowingly breaks the law will find ways to profit through illegal means that are not available to competitors. As a consequence, the competitive playing field is biased toward the company that does not need to follow the rules.
Klaus Schwab | Posted 04.14.2012
Even though capitalism has not been laid to rest, it is fair to say that capital is losing its status as the most important factor of production in our economic system. Capital is being superseded by the ability to innovate -- and therefore by human talents.
Brian LaSorsa | Posted 04.09.2012
I really don't blame them, these corporations. They're old men trying to make a living in a young economy. If our business models were as terrible as theirs, we'd fight in support of protectionist legislation, too.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 04.09.2012
Global capitalism -- including in China, despite its self-styled socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- is in its most severe crisis since the great crash of the 1930s. The question is, can any country make a system with serious built-in flaws function for all of its people?
Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 03.28.2012
In the same way that the Internet radically reduced entry costs in generating and disseminating information, giving rise to new businesses like Google and Facebook, additive manufacturing has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of producing hard goods.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.28.2012
There is no economy without government; there is no America without government. If all this seems a little elementary, it serves a point. The language we use suggests at the outset an assumption that government should be limited.
Jared Moffat | Posted 03.27.2012
Amid a struggling economy and a ballooning student debt crisis, parents and students are reevaluating the merits of a college education. There is no simple answer, because the return on investment depends on what you study.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.20.2012
The right pushes a delusional narrative of a country divided between "makers and takers" -- productive go-getters versus welfare-hungry sloths. But it's all too clear who the real takers are: the ones who make it harder for everyone else to make a living.
Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.15.2012
What a grand gesture. The pursuit of happiness -- codified into the founding document of a newly emerging nation. Happiness as an ideal to reach for and maybe not ever attain.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.08.2012
Jean-Jacques Rousseau proclaimed in his Social Contract that men, though born free, were everywhere in chains. Astonishingly, three centuries later, inequality continues to dog capitalism and taint democracy's legitimacy -- worse now even than back then.
Bruce Judson | Posted 05.01.2012
Wall Street, which should be the heart of American capitalism, has instead become the heart of a dysfunctional system that is destroying the nation's wealth.
John Fullerton | Posted 04.29.2012
We need the sustainable business community to join the ongoing systems level conversation about how to make the whole global economy truly sustainable, not merely less unsustainable.
Ed Lawler | Posted 04.28.2012
CEOs should receive executive compensation packages that only pay off well for them when their organization is producing good returns for its employees, its shareholders and the environment.
Peter Smirniotopoulos | Posted 04.24.2012
Corporations can take the lead in reforming their policies and practices, and re-positioning their branding accordingly -- thereby elevating the public's perception of their products and services -- as Good Corporate Citizens.
Sara Robinson | Posted 05.25.2012