Can biology teach us anything about how to survive in the business world? On March 17 an essay appeared on the Scientific American Web site making the case that “Biological systems offer valuable ...

Business leaders are often fascinated by military tactics, and with understandable reason: They see themselves as waging battle against challenging incumbents and evading minefields in the marketplace ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. Every October, millions of people pay to be frightened. They line up for ...

Novel perspectives emerge from a recent conference on the origins of eukaryotic cells, which covered phylogenetics, population genetics and evolutionary consequences of energy requirements and ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...

Most mergers are engineered for efficiency. Systems are aligned, redundancies eliminated, and structures combined. Yet despite careful planning, most mergers fail to deliver on their strategic promise ...

Sulphate-reducing microorganisms (SRMs) are a physiologically and phylogenetically diverse group of anaerobic bacterial and archaeal species that are important both ecologically and industrially. The ...