Belfor Holdings CEO Sheldon Yellen explains why his billion-dollar company is nothing without his people. Sheldon Yellen had an inkling that he was out of touch with his 6,400 employees
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Feed SubscriptionKinect TV And Sesame Street Hack The Next Generation Of TV
Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic
Read More »Cybermapping Africa’s Strangest Conflict
The Lord's Resistance Army has been waging a brutal war in Uganda for more than 20 years, with hardly a mention in the media. A new piece of software--based on Salesforce--is now tracking the atrocities.
Read More »Check This Out: The New Coke 5!
From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
Read More »Video: Vaccines: Parents opting for alternative schedules
Erica Hill and Jeff Glor talk to "Early Show" medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton about the potential health consequences of a trend that has parents spacing out their children's vaccinations.
Read More »From Haute to Hot (Dogs)
Brandon Gillis and Josh Sharkey definitely have high-end chef cred: Gillis graduated from the French Culinary Institute and has worked at New York City's Tabla and Franny's; Sharkey graduated from Johnson and Wales University and has worked at New York City's Oceana, Jean Georges, Tabla, Bouley, and Caf
Read More »Fukushima Fallout in Japan
On March 13 of this year, 17 year old Yuuko Sato and 13 year old Mina Sato left the only home they'd ever known on an organic farm in Fukushima prefecture. They now live more than two hours by train to the north, in Yamagata
Read More »U.S. Bests Canada in Lowering Child Flu Rates
Pity our neighbors to the north.
Read More »Making People Passionate For Toilet-Bowl Cleaners And Other "Low-Interest" Products
Method has proved there is no such thing as a low-interest product category, just low-interest brands. Attracting attention in a traditionally low-interest category like soap or underwear just takes a bit more thought than, say, beer or cellphones. We admit it: We were never passionate about cleaning before we launched Method
Read More »Video: Graduated licensing lowers car crashes: study
A new study shows states with the toughest graduated licensing programs are seeing fewer car accidents involving teen drivers.
Read More »5 Steps to Launching a Start-up
Preparing to launch your start-up means more than simply making sure you have a viable product and potential customers. Here are five tips on how to prepare yourself to be a founder. John Bradberry was fascinated by the idea of how someone may prepare to start a company.
Read More »Innovation Agents – Sasha Dichter, Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund
Sasha Dichter wants you to know that social impact investing is anything but a crock.
Read More »Ability For Mathematics May Be Inborn
Some people may just be born with a talent for math.
Read More »Better World Books Takes A Page From Toms Shoes’ "One For One" Playbook
The book recycler and reseller has already given away $10 million to help improve literacy. Now it's giving away a book every time you buy one. Better World Books , a bookseller that calls itself "the online bookstore with a soul," announced an initiative this week to donate a book to the company's non-profit literacy partners--Feed the Children and Books for Africa--every time a book is purchased on their website.
Read More »Study: Hispanics Link Business and Family
More than half start their businesses to have something tangible to pass to their children, versus a third of the general population.
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