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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

A Texas A&M study forecasts that by 2020 Americans will spend 45 hours per year tied up in traffic (compared to 38 hours in 2011). Automotive sales slammed into reverse while options for shared transportation grow could change the scene outside our windows considerably.

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It's Time for Tenure to Lose Tenure

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 study of teaching practices at the University of Texas at Austin indicated that UT Austin alone potentially could save $266 million a year if it could get half its professors to be as productive in teaching as the top 20%, fire its least productive faculty, and shift their small workload to other professors.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data.