Teaching Elephants to Dance
A set of practices called "corporate venturing" can rejuvenate big companies-transforming large, lumbering organizations into nimbler and more innovative beasts.
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MIT President Vest to Step Down
A prominent national voice on issues of R&D and education says he'll retire from MIT's top post.
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The Decentralization Imperative
MIT management guru Thomas Malone explains how technology can distribute authority, trump hierarchies, and lead to better business decision-making.
Enter The Cybercandidates
Politicians like Howard Dean are using the Web to rewrite the rules of American politics.
Profiles from the $50K
Students who participate in MIT's business plan competition spawn new companies.
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Emerging Technology Conference Special Report: Evangelizing for Invention
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold laments that companies and even academics devote so little to the direct pursuit of invention.
Reengineering Redux
Most companies operate on the principle of opaqueness. A leader in the 1990s movement to radically overhaul business processes has a new vision--X-engineering--that puts a premium on transparency and standardization.
