Courtney Young

Brooklyn Book Festival 9/12/2010

Just a heads up that the Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up on September 12, with plenty of great (free!) author discussions to attend. Check out the full schedule here. Some Portfolio picks include: The Economic Crisis and What To Do About It: A conversation with Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, moderated by [...]

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FT Longlist Announced – Including Three Portfolio Authors

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs announced their longlist this morning for their prestigious business book of the year award. The list includes three Portfolio titles: Ian Bremmer’s The End of the Free Market, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams’ MacroWikinomics (out in September), and Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera’s All the Devils Are Here [...]

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If Cobb Worked for McKinsey

I’m always a couple of weeks behind when it comes to the New Yorker, but I just read a fairly hilarious Shouts & Murmurs piece by Gideon Lewis-Kraus here that re-imagines Inception as a movie about management consultants. Portfolio authors, take note! The stakes are pretty high: “If you fail,” says Watanabe, “you will stay [...]

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The next big thing in social media?

I haven’t really gotten into foursquare yet, mostly because I spend the vast majority of my time in the office or at home, reading. “Checking in” at my various locations would reveal just how mundane my urban ramblings actually are. Lucky me, now there’s an app called GetGlue that lets you check in on what [...]

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Inside the Wall Street Insanity

MarketWatch has a review up for The Zeroes by Randall Lane. According to MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman: Anybody who wants to understand Wall Street’s insanity should read this book. Friedman also makes things easy for the casting director, should The Zeroes ever make it to Hollywood: If Hollywood makes a movie out of “The Zeroes,” I [...]

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TerraCycle’s Transformation

There’s a really interesting video from TerraCycle founder (and author of Revolution in a Bottle) on the NY Times website about how his company survived by totally redefining their approach to their business. The key to saving their company? Changing from a manufacturing company to a licensing company, and doing it quickly and decisively.

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