Brad Wieners

On the wall behind his desk in his New York City office, UNICEF CIO André Spatz has hung a framed CPU and a 32-megabyte memory board from an old Wang computer. Its debatable if the old-school circuitry succeeds as art, but the decommissioned hardware resonates as deeply with Spatz as most anything in the Louvre. […]

Danish-born Dr. Jakob Nielsen, 46, who completed his doctorate in computer-human interaction at the Technical University of Denmark in 1988, made a name for himself in Silicon Valley during the late 1990s as a champion of minimalism and ease-of-use in Web site design. In fact, a list of the sobriquets bestowed on him by the […]

Ricardo Semler had the sort of reckoning at 21 that most executives dont face until middle age. Fresh from law school, where hed been a restless underachiever, Semler took over his fathers business, which manufactured pumps and propellers for the worlds merchant marine. He was awfully young, but his dad sensed that if he didnt […]