Google, Apple and a whole tech universe are vying for the next great prize: mobile computing. We’ll ask how life changes with a smartphone in everyone’s pocket.

The tempest over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — and who speaks for American business.

A new study suggests multitaskers don’t have some special skill. In fact, they may be damaging their ability to do anything well — even multitask.

We’ll dig into a new biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, America’s first great tycoon.

We listen to the President’s big speech on the U.S. auto industry and ask what it means for Detroit.

The “card check” bill, making it easier for workers to unionize, is introduced in Congress. A showdown is on between business and American labor. We’ll hear both sides.

An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.

Move over Mr. Ponzi, Bernard Madoff is here. We’ll look at the scam that’s rocking rich Americans, and a whole lot more.

Harvard business guru Michael Porter on economic crisis, American competitiveness, and the road ahead.

Are you a multi-slacker? A matador? A frazz master? We’ll look at the weird new vocabulary of today’s business world.

Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Now he’s in prison and desperate to get out. We talk with the Bronx attorney who’s his lead legal strategist about power and the law in oil-rich Russia.

The United States is for sale. Budweiser’s Belgian now. A lot more is on the block. We ask what it means for Americans as the world buys us up.

Warren Bennis has made a big name for himself over the years as a business management guru. He’s been an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and to presidents. Along the way, he’s thought a lot about leadership — what makes a great CEO, general, president.
Lately he’s decided that it all comes down to judgment. Courage, [...]

Auden Schendler is true-blue green, a life-long environmentalist, a climate crusader, says Time magazine.
Schendler believed, with every fiber of his being, that American corporations could save the planet and reap profits at the same time. But when he put that faith to the test, he found turning green into greenbacks is harder than he thought.
Now, [...]

Bestselling writer Ben Mezrich has made his name and fortune tracking young hot shots chasing big money on the edge. He did it in “Bringing Down the House” and in “Busting Vegas,” where fast cars and fast women and casino life were the currency.
Now he’s doing it in the world of oil: oil traders, the [...]

Back in the day, American business schools had a tough time fighting their way onto American university campuses. Academics didn’t see what they taught as a serious profession worthy of a spot.
B-schools made their case, arguing they had a science of management and the nation’s greater good at heart. And a million M.B.A.s were born.
Now, [...]

As workers hit 55, 60, 65, many aren’t losing sleep over the big move to Florida, but instead over the big presentation a week away.
So much for retirement! Some can’t afford it. Others just aren’t ready.
As for their employers, there are companies that think it’s great — the AARP just named its top 50 employers [...]

Well, nobody’s talking about the almighty dollar anymore. Driven by American debt and deficits, the once-mighty US greenback is now at parity with the once-laughable Canadian dollar for the first time in three decades. It’s a pipsqueak next to the Euro.
If the fall is good or bad, it depends on where you stand, and how [...]