NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…

PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from h…

NEW YORK – How many e-mails do you have in your inbox? In general, each one represents a task – something to read, a query to answer, a meet…

BERLIN – I recently attended the JP Morgan health-care conference, the Davos of the medical world. And, like the World Economic Forum’s annu…

MOSCOW – I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our…

ABU DHABI – If people can make themselves healthy, should we blame them for getting sick? That is the stark question raised not only by broa…

PHOENIX – You may have heard of the “quantified self” movement – the idea that you monitor your own vital signs such as weight or blood suga…

NEW DELHI – Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention – a pr…

NEW DELHI – Starting with the opening ceremony at the London Olympics, I have spent the last few weeks considering history and spending time…

NEW YORK – I have written previously about the Quantified Self movement – individuals equipped with the tools (monitoring devices and softwa…

NEW YORK – The most popular stories often seem to end at the beginning. “…and so Juan and Alice got married.” Did they actually live happily…

HAVANA – I was taking my usual morning swim, but this time on the roof of the Parque Central hotel in Havana, where the sun does not rise un…

KAZAN – Americans are great believers in the value of entrepreneurs and small business. That faith underlies the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Busines…

NEW YORK – Two months ago, I was introduced to a start-up called CityMart, a for-profit marketplace dedicated to helping vendors and city ma…

NEW YORK – Within the tech community, there is much angst about whether the Web is about to be “closed.” Will it be controlled by companies …

NEW YORK – In mid-December, while trying to understand what was happening in Russia, I checked Twitter and found a tweet that somehow signif…

NEW YORK – Unfortunately, many new technologies and business models make money for investors without creating jobs for workers. That causes …

NEW YORK – Last month I was in Kyiv, speaking at a conference focused on entrepreneurs. I wanted to give a talk that would be of general int…

NEW YORK – Normally, you need a distinctive first name not to need a last name, but in this – as in everything that he did – Steve Jobs was …

ZURICH – It is fashionable nowadays to talk about personal attention as a commodity or even a currency. Many companies are looking for ways …

NEW YORK – A name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people's mi…

NEW YORK – Last month, I participated in a meeting sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative, the giant philanthropy, which focused on crea…

NEW YORK – It is a well-known – though questionable – truth in the online community that consumers won’t pay for privacy. Accordingly, most …

NEW YORK – The Internet is an extraordinarily powerful tool. It has changed how we do business, how we do politics, and even how we change o…

NEW YORK – In theory, it is hard to think of any nobler computer service than the typical “Help Wanted” board. It helps people find work tha…