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How Wall Street Killed Financial ReformMatt Taibbi, Rolling Stone It's bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it: with a big assist from Congress and…

Editor's note: Every year, HBS Professor Clayton Christensen teaches students that well-tested academic theories can help them succeed not just in business, but in life. He expounds upon those…

Stills from Christian Marclay's The Clock, on view this summer at Lincoln Center.  (Photo: Christian Marclay. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and White Cube, London.) It was…

Looking back on Hunter S. Thompson's classic work of gonzo journalism:

"The telephone rang at Warren Hinckle's San Francisco home at about 3:30 in the morning on Wednesday, April 29, 1970. When Hinckle picked up the receiver, he heard the unmistakable voice of Hunter S. Thompson, calling from Aspen, proclaiming, "Goddammit, Scanlan's has to cover the Derby. It's important."

The pitch, even at the late hour and the late date (barely 72 hours before the race itself), was fairly irresistible.1 Send Thompson, still finding his distinctive voice in countercultural journalism, to his hometown of Louisville to cover the drunken, debauched scene at Churchill Downs for Scanlan's, the anti-establishment (some would say subversive) monthly magazine for which Hinckle was co-editor.

Hinckle agreed on the spot, booked Thompson a ticket, wired him expense money, and then set about finding an artist to provide illustrations for the story. Originally, he had hoped to send a photographer to shoot the event, but after haggling with Thompson, he instead hired the English illustrator Ralph Steadman."

Radical hackers took up Hotz’s fight, although he never considered himself a cause. In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an e

Photo: Nigel Parry He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc…