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MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
... site followed up with a brilliant roll call of MBAs, or Masters of the Business Apocalypse, from Harvard. The rogue's gallery includes former Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal and his successor John...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
...blications here. *An abstract of Banco Solidario: The Business of Microfinance can be found at the Harvard Business Online website. Also see Women's World Banking: [...] Read More M...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...t when it comes to markets. Another piece of evidence supporting that comes with the reports that Harvard Business School screwed up and lost $500 million when it made the stupid bet that interest r...
Seen that? - Stream DivX to the 360 without re-encoding
in XboxSpace, on October 2, 2009
... emerges with (at exit) is completely different from the strategy it set out to implement. Citing a Harvard Business School study that found that it takes four to five years for the right product and ...
Metformin mit positivem Nebeneffekt
in Mein Diabetes Blog, on 16.09.09
...In einer Studie an Mäusen haben amerikanische Wissenschaftler der Harvard Medical School herausgefunden, dass durch das Diabetes Medikament Metformin die Wirkung getesteter Krebsimpfstoffe verbess...
Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...ountry desperate for oil independence. As one of its entrepreneurs Shai Agassi told the Knowledge@Wharton series , the industry will grow and the technology will get better, pretty much in the same ...
MRI Can Be A Tool in The Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 7, 2009
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A study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston suggests that a noninvasive imaging (MRI) may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, stagin...
Fiscal attraction
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
Money and relationships can produce strange results. A University of Pennsylvania study Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriage has found that big spenders tend to marry tightwads. Opposite attract. Which might be a worry. "We found that the more people were di...
Stressed-out and Gaining Weight? Find Out Why.
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 29, 2009
...g a lack of control in their lives.
According to lead author Jason Block, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School :
"The stress effect didn't appear to impact normal-weight people, ...
Typ 1 Diabetiker für Studie gesucht!
in Mein Diabetes Blog, on 16.07.09
...Unter der Koordination der Uni Ulm sucht ein Team aus Wissenschaftlern der Uni Pittsburgh, Harvard und Paris neue Erkenntnisse über den Einfluss von Vererbungsfaktoren auf die Entwicklung von Nieren u...
More stormy weather
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...e impact of global warming. Expect more droughts, floods and cyclones. Specialists interviewed by Wharton here say this is very much the future. We all better get used to it and that includes gover...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
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Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manuf...
Behind the social networks
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...ing the elusive formula of monetizing social networks. First, we have an interesting study on the Harvard Business blog showing that not all Twitter users are alike. According to the study, men hav...
Camara vs. the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on June 10, 2009
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An unusually aggressive lawyer and his Harvard Law School professor have filed a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for over $100 million...
"Lawyer Kiwi Camara is join...
Rising healthcare costs put strain on homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 4, 2009
...s.
And then theree are all those medical bills.
The Los Angeles Times today ran a story citing a Harvard University study that shows that medical bills are playing a serious role in a greater numb...
New MBAs claim they'll be ethical. Yeah right!
in Sox First, on May 31, 2009
...ss leaders claiming they will be more ethical. According to the piece, about one out of five of the Harvard Business School graduating class have signed "The MBA Oath" pledging to serve the ...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-05-24
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Harvard Law Professor Says P2P Is Fair Use
in P2P File Sharing, on May 22, 2009
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Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson , in his defense of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum, says P2P filesharing is "fair use."
"In court filings, Nesson spelled out his defe...
The case against stock options
in Sox First, on May 22, 2009
...ndon Business School professor Freek Vermeulen warns that this would be disastrous. Writing in the Harvard Business Review blog , he says it will only encourage more risk taking behavior, something w...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...hton says MBA should actually stand for Master of the Business Apocalypse. Broughton writes: "Harvard Business School alumni include Stan O'Neal and John Thain, the last two heads of Merrill...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-05-20
...hat P2P filesharing is "fair use"
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Mother's Day Rally for Moms' Mental Health Features Top Mommybloggers & Parenting Authors
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...ew Happy Hour" and a regular on NBC's "The Today Show"
Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor and author of "A Deeper Shade of Blue: A Woman's ...
Flavanoid Apigenin Against Ovarian Cancer Risk
in Well Woman Blog, on April 30, 2009
...omato sauce - may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 20 per cent, according to a new study from Harvard .
The increased intake of the said flavonoid, that is.
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadli...
Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase Asthma Risk
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 30, 2009
...itical Care Medicine.
The researchers, led by John Brehm from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School concluded: "In these children, lower vitamin D levels are associated wit...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...taxes. The piece says: ""No offense to Middle America, but if someone went to Columbia or Wharton, [even if] their company is a fumbling, mismanaged bank, why should they all of a sudden be ...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...oking good, the train is a long way down the track. In fact, the optimism might even be dangerous. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff has told Reuters that the US, Britain, Spain and Ireland won&...
More job cuts ahead: Bain
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
... continue to escalate. That's borne out in the latest Bain executive survey, published in the Harvard Business review blog which found that companies are still planning big cuts. According to ...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...rd to go past this piece in the Weekly Standard by Harvey Mansfield , a professor of government at Harvard, which places the blame firmly on the doorstep of the dismal science . Basically, the ent...
Hope, greed, fear and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
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Interesting piece from Wharton on the psychology behind the financial crisis. It makes the point that the crisis was underpinned by a mix of optimism and delusion, which created the bubble i...
How popular performance based supply chain contracts are?
in Supplychainer, on April 9, 2009
...actory everyday. I tried to enjoy having a lot of time in the train and used my iPod to listen to a Wharton podcast series on logistics.
One of them which I liked the most was an interview with Ser...
Internet Advertising Crash: Could It Take Down Your Business Model?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 4, 2009
...Is Failing On The Internet .
Clemons is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He seems to think that advertising in general is...
Is the Internet shattering advertising?
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... It definitely is, says Professor Eric Clemons from The Wharton School. In this TechCrunch piece , Clemons argues that the drop in Internet advertising was not unpredictable and was always goin...
The 5th Annual "Spoonful of Ginger" Auction Is Now Officially Open
in Daily Diabetic, on March 17, 2009
Joslin Diabetes Center 's 5th Annual "A Spoonful of Ginger" food tasting event takes place on Monday, Mar. 30, 2009. This fabulous evening of food tasting and fundraising brings together many of Boston's finest chefs in support of Joslin's Asian American Diabetes Init...
B Vitamins Against Female Blindness
in Well Woman Blog, on February 25, 2009
... 5,442 women age 40 and older led by William Christen from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The combined B vitamin supplement was associated with a 34 per cent lower ...
More Zinc Decreases Diabetes Risk In Women
in Daily Diabetic, on February 24, 2009
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According to a new study from Harvard , increased intake of zinc may decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes in women by 28 percent.
Zinc, one of t...
Talisman Unlimited Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 16, 2009
...ld, and 14k and 18k white gold, and 18k red gold.
$2640
After earning a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an M.F.A. from Brandeis University, Michael Pitkow co-founded a theater company i...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 15, 2009
...the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Wurgler and co-author Malcolm Baker, a financial economist at Harvard Business School, looked for signatures of investor sentiment-irrational optimism or pessimis...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...far because Obama's economic team is very much to the center and that's not just symbolic. Wharton professor Thomas Donaldson claims that too much regulation wouldn't work anyway becaus...
American Scientists Use Quantum Mechanics To Levitate Tiny Object
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 7, 2009
... Chicago by scientists working under the direction of Federico Capasso, an applied physicist at Harvard University.
Although this technology is in its infancy the team feels certain that their co...
Micro Finance social ventures in Bangladesh
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 13, 2008
... I heard that IESE, one of the top 10 business schools has started such program and schools such as Harvard and MIT in the U.S. are moving the same way.
Hope you enjoy the video!...
Immigrants and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
in TJ's Weblog, on December 2, 2008
... BusinessWeek ran a story late last month by Vivek Wadhwa (Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University) on the percentage of new businesses in the U.S. tha...
Insomnia Drug Can Help Jet-Lag and Shift-Work Problems
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 1, 2008
...shed in the Lancet medical journal.
Dr. Shantha Rajaratnam of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues, working with the company, did both Phase II and Pha...
Obama slams "tone-deaf" business leaders
in Sox First, on November 26, 2008
...ts no one can value much less wants to buy. That pile was built by bankers in tailored suits out of Harvard Business School who saw that if they could inflate - and obscure - the value of the mess, th...
A New Source of Insulin-Producing Cells?
in Daily Diabetic, on November 25, 2008
... Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology at Joslin and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School:
"This means that there is a population of pancreatic cells that can b...
Is the Canary Dead for Venture Capital?
in China Venture News, on November 13, 2008
...nies have gotten back on exiting their investments).
They were looking at a recent presentation at Harvard Business School by Adeo Ressi the founder of the VC-rating site theFunded . Ressi's con...
How Web 2.0 impacts supply chin management?
in Supplychainer, on November 5, 2008
...ut Web 2.0 concept and technologies; They are now at the top of the hype curve and a professor from Harvard has even created a new term called "Enterprise 2.0".
Being in the area of supply...
Microsoft strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2008
...nds me strongly of Microsoft after the Tidal Wave memo. A mid-nineties talk by Steve Ballmer at the Harvard Business School is eerily similar: We're in five businesses today, and we're trying ...
Who says IT is at fault in the financial crisis?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...isis. The post, by the usually completely level-headed John Halamka, CIO and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, reads more like a jealous and petty gotcha for financial services IT departm...
Bailout - not much relief, says Moody's
in Sox First, on September 23, 2008
... the plan. And while the bailout will achieve little, it is likely to have long-term consequences. Harvard Law Professor Hal Scott has told CFO.com that it will saddle future US administrations wit...
Forscher haben Organe neu wachsen lassen
in Daily Innovation, on 12.09.08
...dienten Bauchspeicheldrüzenzellen, welche genetisch umprogrammiert wurden.
Die Forscher an der Harvard-Universität sind dem Traum von neu wachsenden Organen einen Schritt näher gekommen, indem sie a...
Dasha Boutique Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on September 11, 2008
...editors all over the world. Cathy Pitts, who studied studio art for 12 years and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School , founded the company in 2003.
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Older IT Workers Bearing the Brunt
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 3, 2008
...cussed the disproportionate effect of outsourcing on IT workers, citing a recent study by Stern and Wharton business schools which found that as many as 8% of all tech workers were displaced by offsho...
Supply chain video: Interview with president of Wal Mart India
in Supplychainer, on August 31, 2008
...sident, calls a business-to-business wholesale cash-and-carry operation.
In an interview with Wharton School of Management, Jain spoke about Wal-Mart's operations and strategy in India. I ha...
Forscher konnten erstmals die Ausbreitung von HI-Viren stoppen
in Daily Innovation, on 11.08.08
...Im Kampf gegen aids ist ein neuer Hoffnungsschimmer aufgetaucht: Forscher der Harvard Medical School in Boston sind dem Virus bei Labormäusen mit Erbgut-Molekülen zu Leibe gerückt. Diese Moleküle ...
Blogging College Football
in End Zone Buzz, on August 8, 2008
...to be the quarterback for LSU? Dopey Ryan Perrilloux got the boot, and a guy who transferred from Harvard (!) seems to be the front runner. (The Red Zone Report)
- Ten things to love about colle...
Tissue Engineering
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 24, 2008
...ultimately lead to blood vessels and other complex structures. Ali Khademhosseini, a bioengineer at Harvard Medical School, is working on more-complex self-assembling structures found in the liver, pa...
SEC comes up short
in Sox First, on July 24, 2008
...t, they will keep doing it regardless. Some of the difficulties in this area are examined in this Wharton Business School discussion . As the experts say here, it's just a minor change in the r...
Strategic blinders
in Sox First, on July 18, 2008
...ess strategy. That's the view put forward by strategic adviser Umair Haque in his entry on the Harvard Business Review blog site, titled Saving Strategy From the Strategists . Orthodox strategy,...
Shrinking car makers
in Sox First, on July 10, 2008
... report , former GM and Ford finance chief John Devine claims GM and Ford will be fine but as this Wharton discussion paper points out, the car makers simply found themselves behind the curve and un...
Does poor security lead to innovation?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generative systems," the open and unobstructed tools on which he lays the credit for the creation c...
Will Jeff Skilling walk?
in Sox First, on June 23, 2008
... are suggestions, reported here , that Skilling could walk. Mind you, some of it's coming from Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S Salter who is not an attorney. Still, there are warnin...
Conflicted consumers and the greenwashers
in Sox First, on June 17, 2008
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It had to happen. Writing in the Harvard Business Review blog , Andrew Winston talks about the rise of the "conflicted consumer", the one who will buy products that are environmentally ...
Polite Pays Off
in Latina Viva, on June 11, 2008
...tter manners, then maybe changing their bottom line will.
Several recent studies conducted by Harvard University, Stanford Research Institute, and the Carnegie Foundation showed that 85% of our f...
Fox News and bed bugs
in Sox First, on June 5, 2008
... suffering from post- traumatic stress disorder. Just how bad is it really? According to the Harvard School of Public Health , bedbugs might be annoying but they're not know to transmit any...
Why flying will get worse
in Sox First, on June 2, 2008
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Interesting thoughts from Thomas Stewart at the Harvard Business Review blog on the way airlines continually wage war on their customers. He says it usually happens when companies get in a panic...
Stress During Pregnancy May Increase Baby's Asthma and Allergy Risk
in Next Nine Months, on May 29, 2008
...or Dr. Rosalind Wright, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
So try to relax, smile, and take everything in stride. Easier said...
Arthritis Medication Salsalate: May Treat Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on May 28, 2008
...ng to Allison B. Goldfine, M.D., Director of Clinical Research at Joslin and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, and senior author of the report:
"These are the first studies showing...
Harvard: Belletristik für Manager
in BiblioBlog, on 23.05.08
...uot; nun wirklich nicht, zumindest nicht in monetärer Hinsicht. Trotzdem bietet die renommierte Harvard Business School seit mittlerweile 20 Jahren einen Literaturkurs unter dem Namen "The Moral ...
Stress in Pregnancy Increases Baby's Asthma and Allergy Risk
in Allergies, on May 20, 2008
...hor Dr. Rosalind Wright, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Well, pregnant or not, too much stress cannot result to anything ...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-17
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
