Where Will We Get Our Leaders?

Where will we find tomorrow's leaders?

Unless we challenge long-held assumptions about how business leaders are supposed to act and where they're supposed to come from, many people who could become effective global leaders will remain invisible, warns Harvard Business School professor Hill. Instead of assuming that leaders must exhibit take-charge behavior, broaden the definition of leadership to include creating a context in which ...

Letting the genome out of the bottle--will we get our wish?

n engl j med 358;2 www.nejm.org january 10, 2008 105 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). His children, who were concerned about his health, spent $1,000 to give him the analysis as a holiday gift. The test report states that his genomic profile is consistent with an increased risk of both heart disease and diabetes, and because the company that performed the analysis stated that the test wa...

Understanding insurance: will a public option or co-op get us where we want?

Smith • Editorial A option” (ie, allowing individuals to purchase governmentrun health insurance) has been proposed as a solution for achieving universal health coverage in the United States. Politicians have told us not to fear a public option because government-run programs such as Medicare work well—without any of the dreaded rationing of care that critics claim would occur. Recent town hall...

Before We Get There, Where Are We Going?

Fictional stories abound where artificial intelligence gives rise to manmade servants that make our lives a holiday (or a nightmare). Naturally, the optimist has a strong motive to ask: How might we design and implement an artificial servant? We regularly operate under the notion that one agent helps another by doing something for the other. However, the story behind this is much more complicat...

How did we get here and where are we going?