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Byline: Ryan Bigge, Steve Brearton, Mike Doherty, Ken Hunt, Diane Jermyn, Tim Kiladze, Iain Marlow, Gordon Pitts and Julien Russell Brunet Boss, can you spare a hundred grand? In these [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt 11.09 / Business Intelligence / BIG IDEA Of the most lucrative pay packages ever handed out in Major League Baseball, the top two spots are held by [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt 11.09 / Business Intelligence The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, a new book by journalist Gordon Laird. 1) The [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt BIG IDEA Nineteen seventy-four was a rough year for the economy. There was an energy crisis, rampant inflation and the world's financial system seemed on the brink [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt BIG IDEA In the company of men 'And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt BIG IDEA Wanted: tech head Barack Obama loves his BlackBerry. Despite concerns that its use might somehow compromise his personal safety, the U.S. President managed to fend [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt One of the fundamental questions that economists have wrestled with in the past century is this: If markets are so efficient, then why do we have firms? [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Everything you need to know about a business book can often be boiled down to seven words. That's a good thing, since few of us have the [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Things were going amazingly well. In 2007, AIG Inc. was one of the 10 largest companies in the world, and the unri-- valled king of insurance. It [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt What do today's celebrity CEOs have in common with 17th-century pirates? A fearsome affinity for branding, for one Drawing parallels between pirates and modern business is a [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Sam Bronfman Bronfman (which literally means 'whisky man' in Yiddish) rubbed elbows with a who's who of American mobsters. It was Lucky Luciano who famously said that [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt They were so certain they had a winner. In the early 1980s, Coca-Cola spent $4 million conducting nearly 200,000 taste tests and interviews in an attempt to [...]

Byline: Patrick White; Ken Hunt The old lady looks lost. Disoriented, even. For 83-year-old Katherine O'Hare, all the clacking, chirping and hollering inside SilverCity Oakville, west of Toronto, is more [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT 'The fog of false productivity.' That's how Scott Jauman describes the aura of busyness that tends to surround people in traditional offices. They appear to be working [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Auric Goldfinger Goldfinger)Plan Enlist Pussy Galore's team of female aviators to gas the troops at Fort Knox, so he can sneak in and set off a dirty [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt; John Lorinc At the University of Toronto, nanotechnology pioneer Ted Sargent is developing a spray-on solar cell that transforms almost any surface into an energy collector. In [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Problem Employees need focusNudge Give them a clue. American management guru Tom Peters suggests that companies use office layout to motivate and influence staff. How? 'Put the [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT The Large Hadron Collider is easily the most impressive machine that mankind has ever built--and that includes the new G3 iPhone. The new giant particle accelerator at [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT In the boardroom of Vizible Corp., six storeys above the corner of King and Spadina in downtown Toronto, Todd Finch and Anthony Gallo are explaining their vision [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT Jeff Hawkins is best known as the father of mobile computing. His inventions--the PalmPilot and its trademark Graffiti writing system, and the Treo smartphone--revolutionized the way we [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Grameen Bank, the brainchild of microfinance guru Mohammed Yunus, lends money to the poorest people in the world. Its 7.5 million clients are people who not only [...]

Byline: AMANDA LANG; Ken Hunt Tom Anselmi looks more like an athlete than a musician. As a kid, he played soccer, hockey, football and lacrosse. And as executive VP and [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Author Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food may be best remembered for the seven-word motto on its jacket: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' It turns [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt On May 23, 1914, the steamer Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver after a seven-week journey. On board were 12 Hindus, 24 Muslims and 340 Sikhs, many of [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Few topics will dry up a good party faster than a rant about the economy. While you may be skilled at keeping the mood of the crowd [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT Why is this the right time for a carbon tax in B.C.? We're beyond the debate about whether climate change is something that has to be dealt [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Halfway through The Little Prince, the pint-sized planet hopper meets a businessman who is so busy counting the stars that he cannot spare a moment to talk. [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt A dozen years ago, Florida-based psychologist Roy Baumeister started a series of experiments on self-control. A typical one went like this: Hungry subjects were presented with a [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Fans of Kurt Vonnegut might know that it was the novelist's brother, Bernard, who in 1946 discovered that seeding clouds with silver iodide could bring on rain. [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt Great moments in rock history and great moments in economics rarely coincide. But they did on Oct. 10, when Radiohead sidestepped the record industry, not to mention [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT In 1701, Daniel Defoe wrote the satirical poem The True-Born Englishman, and it was a sensation. It was the bestselling poem of its day, but a large [...]

Byline: Ken Hunt It may seem wacky, but your next SUV may run on pond scum. Algae, the fastest-growing plant in the world, holds as much as 50% of its [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT Tim Blackmore is one of the most popular professors at the University of Western Ontario. Students rave about his introductory Media and Society class, and they describe [...]

Byline: KEN HUNT Ubuntu is a slick, user-friendly version of Linux that finally makes the nerdy operating system a viable option for the average user. Dell has already started to [...]