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Social OS and Collective Construction of Knowledge
Social OS and Open Learning Environments), Editors: Alejandro Piscitelli, Iván Aidaime, Inés binder. In February, 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched a web site called ‘thefacebook’ as a service to help Harvard students network with each other.[1] 2] Harvard has an elite reputation, a close-knit community, and the networking one does is almost as important as the learning. Forward written for El Proyecto Facebook y la post-universidad. Sistemas operativos sociales y entornos abiertos de aprendizaje (The Facebook Project and Post-University.
Half an Hour
- Monday, March 8, 2010
Top 10 Tips and Tools for Commuters [Lifehacker Top 10]
Most people set up their car's mirrors in a way that keeps the edge of their own car in their vision, mostly to provide a sense of perspective. Our own Gina, who's been working over the net for more than five years, offers some tips at a Harvard Business Review post on remote email, "checking in" with video chats or teleconferences, and using smart tools to collaborate. U.S. commuters spend an average of 50 minutes in their car each day , and that leaves a lot of room for improvement.
Lifehacker
- Saturday, March 6, 2010
Demolishing Density in Detroit: Can Farming Save the Motor City?
That should earn praise from economists like Harvard's Ed Glaeser, who's suggested similar policies for other Rust Belt cities. Developing the city's edges while tilling its core isn't sustainable in any way that counts. So it's come to this : Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven Detroit , Bing and his staff will pick " winners and losers " amongst the city's neighborhoods and seek to resettle residents from
Fast Company
- Friday, March 5, 2010
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The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
As my Harvard Business School colleague Willy Shih and I described in " Restoring American Competitiveness ," a recent article in the Harvard Business Review , the U.S. has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
David B. Today, many people are looking to high technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives the U.S. economy and gets it back on track.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
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A Labor Day Manifesto for a New World
They tend to gather on the edges where unmet needs intersect with unexploited capabilities. 0160; Edges are fertile seedbeds for innovation. These edges include emerging economies like China, India and Singapore that are beginning to encourage individuals to pursue their passion. 0160; Other edges We speak on behalf of the creatives who are passionate about their work. They experience deep frustration today with the institutional barriers that have been put in their way as they seek to more fully achieve their full potential.
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How to Manage Your Stress Level
The first step in monitoring and managing stress is understanding our physiological responses to stressors, says Benson, who is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. century ago, Harvard researchers Robert M. To recognize how you respond when you're edging closer to the downward slope of the Yerkes-Dodson curve:
Tomorrow you're delivering a sales presentation to your company's biggest client. Your boss and the client company's CEO will be there.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, March 13, 2009
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Is Your Company Brave Enough for Business Model Innovation?
IBM took a lot of flack for being something of a technology laggard in the PC market, preferring to be a fast follower; it didn't get nearly enough credit for being on the cutting edge of business model innovation.
Johnson is chairman of Innosight , a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India, which he cofounded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. A recent Economic Times story detailed IBM's new "spoken Web" technology, which will allow users to browse the Internet and access information by speaking in their local language without having to type or otherwise use the computer keyboard.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Challenging Mindsets: From Reverse Innovation to Innovation Blowback
Last October, two business school professors at Dartmouth, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, teamed up with Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, to publish an article in Harvard Business Review that has attracted significant media attention. These perspectives help to change our view of where innovation will occur – shifting our focus from the core developed economies to the geographic edges represented by developing economies like China and India. Views on innovation in developing economies are evolving rapidly, yet they still do not capture the full significance of what is going on.
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Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks
No one publisher has a "proprietary edge." No one has a proprietary format. Years ago, I heard Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christenson explain how different products do different jobs for different customers at different times. He gave an example of a Harvard study done of McDonalds’ milkshakes. There has been a lot of attention paid to ebooks lately, and for good reason. Electronic books are portable, searchable, and more affordable than print books.
OReilly Radar
- Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Throwing Money at the Energy Problem Isn't Enough
Energy Department announced major funding for 37 cutting-edge energy research projects , from biofuel-producing bacteria to CO2-eating enzymes. In their Harvard Business Review article " How to Jump-Start the Clean-Tech Economy ", Innosight's Mark Johnson and Josh Suskewicz argue that Edison didn't just invent a light bulb. Today the U.S. The goal, as department secretary Steven Chu put it, is to "spur the next industrial revolution in clean energy technologies."
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, October 26, 2009
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The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle and That's a Problem
is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
David B. Harvard Business School
...Tags: Amazon's Kindle e-reader cannot be manufactured in the U.S. and that's a cause for concern.
Even though the Kindle's key innovation — its electronic ink — was invented and is being made, at least for now, in the U.S.,
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Staying with No
It sounds like your no is on the edge of tipping over into yes, so your counterpart is encouraged to keep pushing.
based communication consultant and the author of Hard Talks: Mastering Stressful Conversations with Balance and Skill (Harvard Business School Press, 2008).
...Tags: No one likes hearing "No," and few can resist pushing back — sometimes quite persistently. Roger Fisher, negotiation expert and coauthor of the widely influential book Getting to Yes, used to tell his law students that sometimes he wished he had written a book
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, March 12, 2009
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What to Say to Customers (When You Don't Know What to Say)
Not everyone will want to emulate Miller High Life's one-second Super Bowl commercial , but time-starved, on-edge consumers are likely to value advertising that's quick and to the point. Paul Nunes is the executive director of research at Accenture's Institute for High Performance and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review.
...Tags: We've all had the experience. We see someone going through a difficult time and we just don't know what to say.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, February 19, 2009
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