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Recent Interdisciplinary Research Articles

Best 2011 Books for Entrepreneurs

Some of these choices don't fit neatly into the "business book" genre. But being an entrepreneur is about a lot more than just nuts and bolts.  View slideshow

Innovative Product Mashups

Sometimes innovation is as simple as turning a ketchup bottle upside down. But what about putting bug repellent in clothing or carbonation in milk? It's conv...  Read more

How to Make the Most of Your Time at an Incubator

Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Berkeley Bionics

This California company developed a bionic exoskeleton that gives paraplegics new legs.  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  Read more

Business Authors' Nightstand Notables 

Hear from Seth Godin, Jack Stack and other business authors on the books they like to keep by the bedside.   Watch video

What You Can Learn from Starbucks

Maybe it's because I've just spent some time in London, Paris, and Berlin -- and have seen the cultural success of Starbucks in locales whose immune syst...  Read more

The Innovation Factor: Inside the Idea Mill

What's better than one blockbuster innovation? A company designed to crank out innovations one after another.  Read more

Inside the Smartest Little Company in America

Whit Alexander and Richard Tait, founders of Cranium Inc., had never run a business before. But they did have one thing going for them: brains. That's why th...  Read more

Why Dot-Coms Failed (And What You Can Learn from Them)

Headlines are rife with the tally of dotcoms that have "dot-bombed" or are in a downward spiral, not to mention the associated financial losses and human ...  Read more

Mortar Combat

Think your brick-and-mortar can't compete with its Net-based rivals? Think again. New technology is bringing speed, convenience, and expert product informati...  Read more

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs

By revitalizing Apple Computer, Steve Jobs proves that there's nothing like a charismatic leader when times are tough. But could all that charisma backfire w...  Read more

Corps Values

The U.S. Marines are trained to make split-second decisions based on incomplete information, in life-or-death situations. Can they provide clues to running a...  Read more

Ideas You Can Deliver

To compete with bigger chains, a video store offers some unexpected conveniences.  Read more

Why Every Business Will Be Like Show Business

Study of the network of flexible small businesses that make up Hollywood's entertainment industry.  Read more

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