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While he doesn’t quite put all the cards on the table, GM Chairman G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. offers glimpses into his corporate strategy, and some perspective on GM’s successes and failures.

When Jack Welch was a young manager, he blew the roof off one of General Electric’s factories in a chemical accident.

Anyone who remembers the din of a dot matrix printer at full throttle can appreciate the invention of inkjet printing. For this, we have Frank Cloutier and his prescient Hewlett-Packard team to thank.

In this lively presentation Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com discusses many of the technological advances that have enabled Amazon.com to be the "earth's most customer centric company".

Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower’s desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, “the less you have, the higher priority you have.”

Before buying your next chocolate bar or sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker.

Jean-Robert Câdet lost his childhood, when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family

Economists know that the massive trade deficit the U.S. is building can’t balloon indefinitely, but when the dollar will collapse -- tomorrow or a thousand years from now -- is anybody’s guess.

Globalization is for the first time being hit by a global economic hard landing. What happens to globalization in the process?

Envy Shane Frederick’s Consumer Behavior students. They get to assign prices to such real but quirky products…

Three billion people on earth live on less than two dollars a day. A relative handful of us fare astronomically better. How do economists account for global “haves” and “have-nots”?

"Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse" celebrates the best of American ingenuity and inventiveness.

Charles Vest discusses the Knowledge Based Economy and Education.

There is no single style of successful leadership, says Jeffrey Shames, but in fact lots of good ways to approach the job.

While he won’t provide a definitive answer about Boeing’s plans to manufacture a 787 airliner, Phil Condit does make some stark predictions about the future.

In this freewheeling conversation, three veterans of the IT and venture capital worlds describe the current state of technology investing, and make a stab at predicting the next hot markets.

In this keynote address, Julianne Malveaux takes deadly aim at the hypocrisy she finds in many sectors of American society including exploitation of low wage workers and legacy admissions policies.

Bill Gates’ talk at MIT provided an optimistic view of the next generation of computer science, now that the “rough draft” is done.

Let’s assume, says Rebecca Henderson, that the eagerly awaited convergence in technology has begun, enabling our PCs, phones, cars and appliances to communicate with each other transparently.

If you are starting out in the software business, Michael Cusumano has some advice for you: think hard about whether to specialize in products or services, and take a serious look at trends in the industry.

We pay a stiff price for our car addiction. Daniel Roos starts with the plight of American auto manufacturers, whose market share is dropping and whose plants close as foreign makers move to the U.S. They are victims of their own overproduction.

A word of advice to baby boomers: be very kind to your children. They will quite likely be paying a steep price for your happy golden years.

Napoleon admonished the world to beware an awakened China. 200 years later, Lester Thurow traces the astonishing rise of this economic giant.

While they won’t directly address headline-grabbing corporate swindles (Enron! Tyco! WorldCom!), these speakers are well aware of the turmoil roiling away in boardrooms these days.

In Thomas Malone’s optimistic view of the future, the human values of creativity and freedom ultimately triumph, and business leads the way.