Twice as bright, but half as long
Recent improvements in the ability of the oil industry to successfully drill for oil in “tight” non-porous rock formations like shale, using methods like hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal drilling, have revolutionized the conversation about energy in the United States….
Keep your friends close — but not too close
The longstanding myth of rational financial markets continues to be eroded by research into the behaviour of actual investors. In a recent study conducted by academics at IESE, the London School of Economics, and the University of Essex, it is…
Costing to price
For North American and European multinationals, rapidly-growing emerging market countries like India have long offered appetizing pools of potential customers and low-cost outsourcing opportunities. However, as London Business School professors Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam argue in their new book,…
A bicycle would cost more… and would be far less fun to watch
Beginning a fifty-theatre run in France this week is a two-hour-and-thirteen-minute film that has attracted a great deal of critical buzz and was recently featured in the ACID lineup at Cannes. Praised for its realism and intensity, another part of…
Slums not as problems, but as solutions
Brazil’s pacification operation in the Rocinha and Vidigal favelas of Rio de Janeiro this past week made international headlines, involving as it did the dramatic occupation of the districts by 3,000 soldiers and police supported by helicopters, tanks, and snipers….
Innovation through imitation
Patent wars are breaking out all over the high-technology industry, the most high profile of which is the battle between Apple and Samsung. Apple initiated hostilities in April on behalf of its market-dominating iPad and has won a preliminary injunction…
