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May/June 1998
Companies That Listen to Their Inner Voices
MIT´s guru of productivity calls for a new “New Economic Citizenship,” a concept based partly on how America´s most successful corporations navigate turbulent economic conditions.
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Winning Combinations

Combinatorial chemestry has revolutionized drug developmnet. A handful of startup companies are betting it can do the same in the search for new materials
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Field Work in the Tribal Office
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The Next Genome Project
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The Big Dig
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High-tech Bulls Continue Run in Venture Markets

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The Moses of Management

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A Netizen Tells Stories of Cyberspace

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Brandy, Cigars, Machine Dreams

The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation

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Needs We Didn't Know We Had

Sense & Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era

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Building Edison's Bulb

Lessons from Innovations Past

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Let My Computer Serve Me!

Forget the multimedia distractions. Computer developers should strive for simplicity, eas of use, and machines that are “people-aware.”

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Low Road to Market

Highly touted “gene chips” are entering clinical use but not as biological crystal balls. Their more mundane role: assessing the stage of a tumor.

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Moonlight over Academe

Slicing billions of dollars from corporate laboratories hasn’t hurt U.S. competitiveness. One reason: companies hire professors to do R&D moonlighting.

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Telling Time by the Second Hand

By emphasizing challenges to conventional wisdom, the popular press distorts how science really works.

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