Walter Isaacson

Splendor in the Glass -- Harvard's 375th in NYC

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.08.2012

John Tepper Marlin

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President and its first woman president, was in New York City on May 3 to celebrate Harvard's 375th year and reconnect with alumni.

Steve Jobs In 'Lost' Interview: 'My Model Of Management Is The Beatles'

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.18.2012

Before the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod, before the famously simplistic uniform of blue jeans and a fitted black turtleneck, there was simply Steve J...

Steve Jobs Is Helping Me

Jesse Aizenstat | Posted 04.06.2012

Jesse Aizenstat

That's right, sports fans: Steve Jobs is helping me design my hardcover travel-adventure book, Surfing the Middle East. Well... while I'm reading his...

Steve Jobs and Harvard Business Review

Bill_Robinson | Posted 05.26.2012

Bill_Robinson

While Adi Ignatius generally worked for mainstream, revenue-dependent publications interested in enhancing new subscription sales and expanding readership, he got a new, rather different kind of editorial position in 2009: editor-in-chief of The Harvard Business Review.

9 Fascinating Books About Steve Jobs And Apple

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 02.17.2012

Even before Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 on October 5 of last year, the whole world was fascinated not only...

Alhurra and the Arab Spring

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 04.17.2012

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

There is one thing in common between Congress-funded Arabic TV, Alhurra, and countries of the Arab Spring. Both have unaccountable leaders, who have been in place since forever, and who look like they are staying indefinitely.

Blind Ambition

Alex Belida | Posted 04.16.2012

Alex Belida

When the Broadcasting Board of Governors unveiled a new Strategic Plan, it set an ambitious goal: "To become the world's leading international news agency by 2016." But based on its latest budget proposal, global news organizations like Reuters and AP have little to fear.

What The Steve Jobs Biography Got Wrong

Daring Fireball | Posted 02.14.2012

What is Apple at heart: a software company, or hardware company?...

Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012

Regina Weinreich

Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish -- To Fight Hunger

Enid Borden | Posted 02.11.2012

Enid Borden

I've been doing what a lot of other people have been doing lately. I've been reading Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. I have been a fan of Jobs for as ...

One Lesson from Steve Jobs We Missed - Embrace Conflict

Joan Michelson | Posted 01.17.2012

Joan Michelson

Being nice doesn't drive innovation. As the legacies of Steve Jobs are analyzed and dissected, one of the most important ones is that Steve Jobs did not worry about not being liked - and drew the best out of people. This flies in the face of traditional corporate culture.

Bianca Bosker

Jobs' Biographer: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.16.2011

What made Steve Jobs special? It wasn't the smarts, according to Walter Isaacson, the author of a recent biography of Jobs. Isaacson argued that...

Banned for Life From Facebook, Man Finds a Home on Google Plus (Video)

Dan McDermott | Posted 01.15.2012

Dan McDermott

My special guest on this edition of Google Plus Week is Adam Guerbuez, the Montreal marketer who got sued for $873 million by Facebook and lost.

What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 01.09.2012

Brian Rosenberg

Steve Jobs, in one of his less profane moments, might have called an educational system devoid of the liberal arts, like a computer or a phone or a music player devoid of both beauty and functionality, "a piece of crap." I can't say that I disagree.

WATCH: Biographer Talks Steve Jobs' Rivalry With Bill Gates

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.28.2011

Simon & Schuster, the publisher who recently released "Steve Jobs" Walter Isaacson's biography of the Apple co-founder, sat down with the author to di...

Jobs' Book Author Opens Up About Apple Founder

AP | By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 12.26.2011

NEW YORK -- Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn...

Steve Jobs Denounced Fox News To Rupert Murdoch

Posted 12.26.2011

Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch that Fox News was a "destructive force in our society," according to the blockbuster biography of the late Apple CEO. ...

9 Surprising Facts About Steve Jobs You Need To See

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.24.2011

How Apple got its name, why Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks and the bizarre interview questions the Apple CEO would ask job candidates: these are ju...

Mark Zuckerberg Not A Sell-Out, Steve Jobs Said

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.24.2011

On Sunday, "60 Minutes" aired a 30-minute interview with Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson, whose eagerly awaited biography "Steve Jobs" was rele...

'Steve Jobs' Biography Gets Reviewed

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 12.24.2011

"Steve Jobs" (Simon & Schuster), by Walter Isaacson: "Steve Jobs" takes off the rose-colored glasses that often follow an icon's untimely death and in...

WATCH: An Unprecedented Look At The Life Of Steve Jobs

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 12.23.2011

Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of recently deceased Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, goes on sale October 24. The book was initially scheduled for...

What Steve Jobs Learned From His Biggest Failure

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 12.23.2011

Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs traces the Apple co-founder's career in Silicon Valley--from its soaring highs to its crushing lo...

Bianca Bosker

Steve Jobs Biography Hints At What's To Come From Apple

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.22.2011

While at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs shrouded the company's plans in secrecy. He even lied regularly, assuring the world Apple had no plans for a ce...

Steve Jobs Told Obama: 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'

Posted 12.20.2011

In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, "Steve Jobs," author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design politi...

How Apple Got Its Name

AP | RACHEL METZ, BARBARA ORTUTAY and JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 12.20.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life – giving up religion because he was troubled by starving chi...