In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up he’d just given $11.8 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on prioriti...(展开全部)

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up he’d just given $11.8 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on prioriti...(展开全部)

约翰·杜尔(John Doerr)，风险投资公司KPCB合伙人、董事长，谷歌公司董事。作为全世界具有传奇色彩和创意又不拘一格的风险投资家之一，约翰·杜尔从1980年开始，参与了众多硅谷成功企业的早期投资，包括谷歌、太阳微系统公司、康柏、亚马逊、网景、财捷、莲花软件等，在短短10年内创造了高达1000亿美元的经济价值，创造了19.2万多个就业机会。同时，他还担任多家上市公司的董事，包括谷歌、财捷、亚马逊和太阳微系统公司等。 从医疗改革到推进机器学习的应用，他热衷于鼓励领导者重新设想未来。在KPCB之外，约翰与社会企业家合作致力于改变公共教育、气候危机和全球贫困。此外，他还是奥巴马基金会和非营利组织ONE的委员。 译者介绍 曹仰锋博士，香港创业创新研究院院长、管理X.0创新实验室创始人、北京大学光华管理学院管理实践教授、《海尔转型》作者。 王永贵博士，教...(展开全部)

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict...(展开全部)

Peter Block raises our awareness of the trade-offs we've made in the name of practicality and expediency, and offers hope for a way of life in which we're motivated not by what “works” but by the things that truly matter in life—idealism, intimacy, depth and engagement.

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too freq...(展开全部)

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too freq...(展开全部)

乔尔·L.弗雷施曼，1960年开始其职业生涯，最初是耶鲁大学沃尔特.E.梅耶法律研究所所长助理。1961-1965年间，担任北卡罗来纳州州长法务助理。之后回到耶鲁，最初担任耶鲁大学暑期学校负责人，随后担任城市研究项目的助理教务长。1969年，他成为城市及其环境研究中心副主席和耶鲁社会科学研究所所长助理。1971年，加入杜克大学法律系，担任公共政策和公共事务研究所——现在的桑福德公共政策学院——所长，并一直担任该职务到1983年。他现在是法律和公共政策教授，海曼道德、公共政策和职业中心的负责人。他也负责杜克基金会研究项目。他的主要著作涉及法律监管、政治活动融资和非营利组织监管。他现在是非营利组织自我监管委员会的联合主席和独立委员。

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences ...(展开全部)

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of...(展开全部)