Open Innovation: Goldcorp Challenge Rob McEwen is the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp. He stunned the gold mining industry by sharing his company’s proprietary geological data so that people all over the world could do the gold prospecting for him.

TEDxUChicago 2012 – Elizabeth Gerber – Crowd Sourcing

http://youtu.be/whPY2iSy3Tg Elizabeth Gerber is a professor in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern Universtiy. She is also the principle investigator for The Creative Action Lab, which investigates how technology fosters innovation; she specifically focuses on researching crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and innovation education. As the founder of Design for America, an award winning national educational initiative, she... Continue Reading →

70 Percent Of Your Employees Hate Their JobsThe good news for the labor market—more people are voluntarily leaving their jobs than they did a year ago.  The bad news for corporate managers—more people are voluntarily leaving their jobs.  Once you start seeing this trend, you know that employees are discouraged, disillusioned, and uninspired.I was shocked... Continue Reading →

President Obama Chats About Kim DotcomPresident Barack Obama and New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key talked about Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom before a meeting at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. The leaders didn’t comment on what was said during the private chat, but Dotcom took up the news to forward a request. He asked... Continue Reading →

Game of T̶h̶r̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ [Food Trucks]: Chicago’s Mobile Vendors in an Epic Food Fight

http://youtu.be/C4gNfcxiBiY Should the city of Chicago be in the business of protecting a few politically connected restaurateurs from competition? That is the question to be answered by a major lawsuit filed Wednesday, November 14, 2012, in Cook County Circuit Court by the Institute for Justice (IJ)—a national public interest law firm—and three Chicago-area food truck... Continue Reading →

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