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  • Publisher of Forbes- the world's most popular business and financial magazine
  • Author of Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives
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Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes—the world’s most popular business and financial magazine, read by 4.5 million people per issue. He also is the author of the book, Life 2.0 How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness, which was an Amazon and Wall Street Journal business best...

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Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes—the world’s most popular business and financial magazine, read by 4.5 million people per issue. He also is the author of the book, Life 2.0 How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness, which was an Amazon and Wall Street Journal business best seller.

In every issue of Forbes, Karlgaard writes a column called Innovation Rules. It appears in the front pages of Forbes, directly after columns by Steve Forbes. In his Innovation Rules column, Karlgaard writes about technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economical development and the future of business and work. He frequently lectures on these subjects and is a regular guest on the Fox News Channel’s Forbes on Fox. In 2005, Karlgaard began writing a daily blog, which appears on the homepage of Forbes.com.

Karlgaard joined Forbes in 1992 to start Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, along with Forbes CEO and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, and the futurist and writer George Gilder. At Forbes ASAP Karlgaard commissioned original works by Tom Wolfe, John Updike and other notable American writers.

Karlgaard is an accomplished entrepreneur. He has co-founded two companies (Garage Technology Ventures, in 1997; and Upside magazine in 1988) and one civic organization (the 5,500-member Churchill Club in 1985). For the latter, Karlgaard was a co-winner of the Ernst & Young Northern California “Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

Karlgaard was raised in Bismarck, North Dakota and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science. Currently, he lives with his wife and two children in Northern California.  When he is not working or spending time with his family, Karlgaard likes to fly his single-engine airplane around the country and meet the people who make America unique and great.

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2012 Elections, Government vs. Private; Local vs. Global
The 2012 U.S. elections will be a pivot point much like 1932 and 1980, on which the power balance between government and the private sector will tip for a generation. Until then: A "yellow caution ...more
The 2012 U.S. elections will be a pivot point much like 1932 and 1980, on which the power balance between government and the private sector will tip for a generation. Until then: A "yellow caution flag" economy of 2% growth and stock gains of 5% to 20% dependent on the European debt crisis, China's slowdown, and U.S. election probabilities. Large American corporations reported record profits in 2011; but they are defensively holding record amounts of cash as they await clearer signs about U.S. tax, trade and regulatory policies and global risk. Small business is paralyzed by technological disruption and political uncertainty. At a time when more Americans call themselves independent moderates, the two major parties are being pulled to their extreme ends by protest movements (Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street) that, political differences aside, share a distrust of government, banks, large corporations and the global economy. ...less
Technology and the Culture of Innovation
The shallow U.S. recovery will pick up pace in 2012 but still leave many old business models (as well as cities, states and countries) behind. Forbes publisher and Innovation Rules columnist Rich Karlgaard spent 2011 ...more
The shallow U.S. recovery will pick up pace in 2012 but still leave many old business models (as well as cities, states and countries) behind. Forbes publisher and Innovation Rules columnist Rich Karlgaard spent 2011 talking to CEOs of successful tech companies to learn why some adapt to and other miss bends in the curve. What emerges are a set of facts and principles that any organization, technology or not, can apply to reignite growth and profit. ...less
The Rise of America's Second Tier Cities
High costs, deteriorating services and ballooning fiscal crises spell years of subpar growth for America's larger cities in blue states. The rising stars are cheaper heartland cities such as Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. ...more
High costs, deteriorating services and ballooning fiscal crises spell years of subpar growth for America's larger cities in blue states. The rising stars are cheaper heartland cities such as Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Oklahoma City.These and others are in a sweet spot for growth, driven by the global agricultural and energy booms, as demanded by the emerging economies and their people. Science and innovation will spread from traditional clusters in high-cost Silicon Valley, Seattle and Boston to university towns in the heartland, particularly as the coming biotech boom transforms health care, agriculture and energy. Revolutions in materials science and robotics will transform manufacturing and lead to an American Renaissance. ...less

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