Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, says that the cost of technical innovation in today's open source world is so low that anyone with a great idea for a product can start building and testing it with little required in the way of start-up money or formal structure...
Art & Copy traces the legacy of groundbreaking artists working in advertising, a field often looked down on as cheap and manipulative. Legendary slogans like "Think Different" and "Just Do It" shaped the cultural terrain of the last fifty years, and blurred the line between art and business...
Adapted from David Mamet's play, Glengarry Glen Ross exposes American business as a war zone, peopled by vicious men whose drive to succeed overwhelms their humanity. Salesmen in a New York real estate office are divided into "losers" and "closers" by cutthroat sales incentives...
A classic from the golden age of corporate raiders, Wall Street exposes the rampant greed and ruthlessness of 1980's stock brokers. Bud Fox is a low-level stockbroker who will do anything to get ahead...
Violet and Doralee are ambitious, hardworking women whose dreams of success are thwarted by sexism. Violet gets passed over for promotions in favor of an incompetent male executive, Frank Hart. He even steals her ideas and tells her that the company will never promote a woman...
In this lively, illustrated lecture, writer Dan Pink explains that, contrary to popular belief, money is not the best motivator for improving job performance. A series of experiments at MIT show that there are three factors that lead to better performance: autonomy, mastery, and purpose...
Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and angel investor, discusses the relationship between innovation and economic depression/recession and highlights how many financially viable businesses today were started during recessionary times.
This clip from the documentary film "The Smartest Guys in the Room," based on the best-selling book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, examines the rise of Jeffrey Skilling, the CEO of Enron. Skilling is shown to be a brilliant but ruthless man who believed that he and Enron stood at the peak of a Darwinian food chain, justifying whatever action was necessary to keep them there.
The Onion imagines what would happen if the newly-elected President of the United States decided to conduct a job performance review with every American worker. The video reveals a few of the challenges any new manager might face when evaluating her staff for the first time, as well as some common pitfalls.
Saras Sarasvathy, Associate Professor at Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, explains that entrepreneurs trying to move their venture past the idea stage need nurturing and encouragement.
