Business: 50 Influential Gurus.

Ranking of the "world's most influential business leaders."

The hands that shape humanity.

Social Entrepreneurship: Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network: Social Entrepreneurship.

Manyworlds

Manyworlds

OpenBusiness

"The vision of the Open Business Guide is to share, mix and facilitate the spread of innovative business ideas. Here the entrepreneurial community can share success stories and failures. From both we can learn."

Gladwell.com

Articles and book excerpts from Maclom Gladwell, author of: "The Tipping Point" and "Blink".

(Marketing, Management, and much more.)

Video Streams: The Boardroom Connection.

A partnership between the WSJ, InformationWeek and Optimize. Seems this site will have IT focused stories, case studies, etc.

The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness

"The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness is dedicated to the study of competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions, and cities; and the relationship between competition and society."

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Foreign Policy Association's: Great Decisions

"Great Decisions is an annual publication from the Foreign Policy Association that serves as the basic component of all Great Decisions programs. The briefing book consists of eight articles that educate readers on some of the key foreign policy issues of the day. "

International networks archive.

(International networks archive)

Project Syndicate

"Project Syndicate is an international association of 230 newspapers in 108 countries, devoted to the following objectives:
bringing distinguished voices from around the world to informed national audiences so as to create a global forum for broadening debate and exchanging ideas;..."

Commentary from Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Charles Taylor, and many others.

Businessweek Blogs.

4 blogs by Businessweek: 'Brand new day', 'Deal flow', 'Tech beat', and 'Well spent'

Video Streams: Research Channel

ResearchChannel is a consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions dedicated to broadening the access to and appreciation of our individual and collective activities, ideas, and opportunities in basic and applied research.

Economics network

Interactive tutorials and audio-video presentations from the Economics network.


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ChangeThis

" ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.

We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds."

Nicholas Carr.

Regular readers of HBR are quite familiar with Nick Carr and his May 2003 article: 'IT doesn't matter.'


Here's a link to his site,featuring his latest book and other discussions:

NGC

And, a couple of related articles:
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/04213?pg=0 [S+B: Free registration required]

http://www.cio.com/archive/050104/carr.html [CIO.com]

Blogs: Ross Mayfield's Weblog

'Markets, Technology & Musings'

Consulting+

Deloitte, like most other consulting firms, offers case studies and research focusing on business strategy and enterprise value creation.

You can also order books for free from their: Straight Talk Series.



(Deloitte)

Nobel prize video streams.

Prize announcements, lectures , interviews with winners...


(Nobel videos)

Gallup Management Journal

Most everyone heard of the Gallup organization and its polls.
In this management journal Gallup also offers other business insights collected from its research on "human nature and behavior".


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