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Profiles in Partnership is a series on best practices and sound advice for developing and maintaining successful partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit organizations by author Bruce Burtch. In this article, Bruce interviews ...

The Volkswagen hover car was recently shown at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show. It’s part of the "People's Car Project" in China, which crowd-sources design ideas for Volkswagen's model ...

I recently stumbled upon an article called, “How I Busted Out of My Addictive Technology Loop,” written by none other than Martin Lindstrom (author of Brandwashed), for none other than FastCompany. In ...

Okay, so we’ve all seen them. I’m not exactly sure how to classify them. These overly progressive companies. Maybe not overly progressive, I don’t want to paint being progressive ...

“Concerned about America’s huge carbon footprint? Then you should be concerned about immigration.” No, this is not a spoof produced for Saturday Night Live. Sadly, it is a real ad from ...

Fearing failure stifles creativity and progress. Instead, embrace failure and learn from it early on. Rapid prototyping can help you do just that. Embracing Failure On the morning of December 17, 1903 ...

Netflix lost 2.76 million DVD subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2011, as more and more of the service's customers shifted to streaming-only packages. But even if the iconic red ...

The new book, End Malaria, was born out of a passion to save lives, and was written by more than sixty best selling business authors and social thought leaders who joined together ...

Dissecting the Punchline  How did Heinz get people to consume 78% more ketchup through a simple design change? The same principles that the best stand-up comedians follow also apply to successfully innovating ...

Since the announcement that Facebook is acquring social photo app Instagram for $1 billion (cue clip of Dr. Evil) there has been much speculation on how the deal might change both company ...