Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World’s Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery. For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man. Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil [...]

The thousands of wait-listed would-be MBAs who may not get the chance to go to their dream B-school might want to draw inspiration from the following group of CEOs. Not only did they not get graduate degrees, they didn’t get undergraduate degrees — and some never even attended college. Of course, not having a degree [...]

PEMILIHAN Presiden Amerika Serikat sudah usai. Barack Obama sudah terpilih menjadi Presiden AS periode 2008-2012 dan akan dilantik pada 20 Januari 2009. Ada satu catatan yang menarik bagi saya dari Pilpres Amerika kali ini, yaitu bagaimana pentingnya peranan internet, terutama Web 2.0 dan social networking, sebagai media kampanye. Ini menandai era baru pemanfaatan media dalam [...]

Major breakthroughs in science have historically been the province of individuals, not institutes. Galileo and Copernicus, Edison and Einstein, toiling away in lonely labs or pondering the cosmos in private studies. But in recent decades – especially since the Soviet success in launching the Sputnik satellite in 1957 – the trend has been to create [...]

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd. The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic [...]

JAKARTA, Putra Mahkota Kerajaan Inggris Pangeran Charles, Sabtu ini, direncanakan tiba di Jakarta untuk melakukan kunjungan selama lima hari. Selama di Indonesia, Pangeran Charles yang datang tanpa didampingi istrinya, Putri Camilla, akan berkunjung ke Jambi untuk melihat langsung proyek penghutanan kembali yang dibantu oleh Pemerintah Inggris, yaitu Hutan Harapan, Minggu besok. Beliau juga akan mengunjungi [...]

The rich haven’t gotten richer–or poorer–this year. The price of admission to this, the 27th edition of The Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion for the second year in a row. The assembled net worth of America’s wealthiest rose by $30 billion–only 2%–to $1.57 trillion. Rising prices of oil and art paved the way for 31 [...]