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What Money Can't Buy: Michael Sandel On Market Moralism Run Amok

What Money Can't Buy: Michael Sandel On Market Moralism Run Amok

Newsweek — Would you pay your kid to read a book? Do you think crack addicts should be paid to get sterilized? Are skyboxes bad for America? Michael Sandel thinks we need to ask these kinds of questions. Sandel is probably the world's most relevant living philosopher, thanks to the hugely popular course he teaches at Harvard, "Justice," which was broadcast on PBS and the BBC. His 2009 book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? topped sales charts here and elsewhere; he's a sought-after speaker all over the world. The popularity of his "Justice" course says Sandel, 59, has to do with its questions, not him.
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A Very Young CEO - Technology Review

A Very Young CEO - Technology Review

Technology Review — At 23, Seth Priebatsch has a life that's all about winning, and not much else. Seth Priebatsch comes to his office door in bare feet and a wrinkled orange polo shirt. Even at 6 p.m. on a Saturday, this isn't normal garb for the CEO of a company of 100 people. But Shoeless Seth isn't your typical CEO. For one thing, he's 23. For another, his formal title is Chief Ninja. "We had to go raise money, so I Googled 'how to raise money,'" says Priebatsch. "It said VCs negotiate against CEOs. I was willing to bet they'd never negotiated against a ninja."
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Game Over?

Game Over?

Boston Magazine — Photograph by Tom Schierlitz CENTRAL SQUARE LOOKS like a grimy remnant of pre-knowledge economy Cambridge, dotted with aging storefronts and fast-food joints. But right in the heart of the neighborhood, above the grit, are the gleaming headquarters of video-gaming rock stars Harmonix Music Systems. And it's here that I find myself on a mid-October afternoon, overcome with awe as I take in what Harmonix calls the Star Chamber. I'm surrounded by a stunning 64-inch television, a fire-engine-red couch, purple leather folding chairs, and a rack with just about every video-game console you can think of.
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Ends and means | The University of Chicago Magazine

Ends and means | The University of Chicago Magazine

mag.uchicago.edu — In the fall of 2010, Shobha Srinivas replaced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as the face of microcredit, and the industry went from panacea for the poor to wolf at their door.
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Made in Somerville - The Boston Globe

Made in Somerville - The Boston Globe

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine — ON A PLEASANT DAY in May, Sam Millen stands on the first floor of the former commercial bakery in Somerville that now houses his consumer electronics company, Cue Acoustics. The sounds of WAAF waft in from the back room, where newly completed radios play for 24 hours before being sent to customers. He's 38, and his black short hair has flecks of gray in it - a legacy, one might say, of two spectacular flameouts with outside manufacturers over five years of struggle to get his company going in the teeth of a recession.
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Parallel bars

Parallel bars

The Economist — HAVE computers stopped getting faster? If you looked only at the clock speeds of microprocessor chips, you might well think so. A modern PC typically has a processor running at 3.0GHz (3 billion clock ticks per second), little changed from a PC made three or four years ago. Clock speeds, which used to double every couple of years, have stopped increasing because as chips are clocked at higher speeds they become difficult to cool and much less energy-efficient. Instead, extra oomph has been added in recent years by packaging multiple processing engines, or "cores", inside a single chip.
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Is Ron Shaich out to lunch?

Is Ron Shaich out to lunch?

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine — On an unremarkable day in late fall 2009, Ron Shaich, the Brookline-based CEO of Panera Bread Co., was touring the chain's restaurants in metropolitan St. Louis with the district's top operating executive, Don Hutcheson. Shaich, in the passenger seat of Hutcheson's car, had his shoes off and his feet up on the dashboard.
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How Warner Music and Its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales

How Warner Music and Its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales

Fast Company — On a chilly night in Manhattan, Julie Greenwald is steamed. "I hate free! Why should people get music for free?" says the 40-year-old spitfire COO of Atlantic Records, one of two major labels of Warner Music Group, and the first big label with more U.S. music revenue from digital downloads than physical discs. She's in the VIP room backstage at the Nokia Theatre, where Atlantic rock act Shinedown headlines a sold-out show. "Music isn't free!" she says. She ticks off the costs: songwriters, producers, sound engineers, radio promotions, Internet promotions, people working to place songs in movies and on TV, people to run artists' Web sites ...
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How Innovations from Developing Nations Trickle-Up to the West

How Innovations from Developing Nations Trickle-Up to the West

Fast Company — We know how innovation works. We get iPhones; those less fortunate overseas get whatever we dropped in the recycling bin on our way out of the Apple Store. We get Gore-Tex; they get 2007 New England Patriots 19-0 T-shirts. We get the Wii; they play rock-paper-scissors. We get collateralized-debt obligations ... well, we can't win them all. Innovation has always been about people in rich nations getting the latest stuff and the rest of the world getting our castoffs as our markets scale and prices come down.
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The forgotten story of 'America's most famous tool' - The Boston Globe

The forgotten story of 'America's most famous tool' - The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe — A look at the forgotten history of the pipe wrench, an essential element of modernity.
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