One morning while anchoring The Early Show in New York, one of my co-anchors got mixed up and tossed the show to me five minutes before I was slated to appear for my next segment, which was covering breaking […]

First in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems.

It’s a seemingly nondescript chart, buried in a Harvard […]

Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” they are more likely to answer “Busy!” than “Very well, thank you”? That is because the norm in most companies is that you are […]

When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., replied, “I would place my bet on […]

Crisis Quiz: test your inner Greek geek

With the long, tortured path to a third Greek bailout entering its final stretch, it is time for those who think they understand the five-year-old […]

The global obsession with coffee shows no signs of abating, propelling sales and profits at the world’s most ubiquitous coffee chain, Starbucks.

In the quarter that ended June 28, sales in Starbucks stores open […]

Scientists are using cellphone data to track everything from depression and mood disorders to crowd behavior.

On a difficult day, the patient’s data stream includes very few pings. Her GPS sensor shows her […]

I look at apps like Grindr and Tinder and see how they’ve rewritten sex culture — by creating a sexual landscape filled with vast amounts of incredibly graphic site-specific data — and I can’t help but wonder why […]

We should all be getting a litttttle nervous: The robot apocalypse is brewing.

Or at least, that’s what a growing number of tech visionaries are predicting. In an interview with the The Australian Financial […]

As Greece’s debt crisis drags on—negotiations with European lenders are nearing a new deadline set for Sunday—life goes on for ordinary citizens. For entrepreneurs across the country, the wrecked economy has been […]

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