In the Gulf of Mexico, the leak is bigger than they thought. The oil slick is growing, and moving closer to the Gulf Coast. As a recovering English major, it’s hard for me not to see this steadily-spreading oil slick as a dark metaphor for the developed world’s looming energy crisis:... 

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future.) Walk into any organization and ask people to name a leader and the most frequent response will be the name of the CEO. This conflation of “leader” with “person at... 

In the 1850s, a sewing machine cost more than $100. With the average American family taking in about $500 a year, that price put it out of reach for most. Then, in 1856, the I.M. Singer Company introduced an installment plan through which buyers could pay for its machines over time. Sales tripled... 

Sorry, Paul. Too bad, Tom. The most insightful pundit posting at today’s New York Times hasn’t won a Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. He neither bloviates on global economic policy nor condescends about China’s Green autocracy. He doesn’t do Davos or snark. Nevertheless, his columns... 

IT is deployed everywhere, and I mean that literally. I struggle to think of corners of the global economy that have not been affected by digitization, and I can think of many that have been greatly transformed. I don’t think this phenomenon is anywhere near complete, especially when I... 

Whether you are in New York or New Delhi, receiving a medical diagnosis of cancer, diabetes, or asthma is a daunting prospect. The desire for good health is the same worldwide. However, unlike in the developed world, the emerging markets are an enormously diverse group of budding economies that...