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Craig Barrett Takes On Vivek Wadhwa In The Tech Education Debate
Research by Harvard economist Richard Freeman showed that because salaries for scientists and engineers are lower than for other professions, the investment that students have to make in higher degrees isn’t cost-justified. The current 25 year old generation will be less well educated (defined by college graduation rates) than the 45 year old generation
Editor’s note : The most valuable employees of any technology company are the engineers and scientists, which is why everyone in Silicon Valley does whatever they can to ensure the continuous supply to this talent pool.
TechCrunch
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
Where Will Your Next Profits Come From?
To understand why, let me lay out what I believe is a more useful way to think of profits — a formulation I've broken out into four parts to make it easier to view profit generation strategically. But the very fact that it's hard to think about profit generation in other terms is what creates opportunities — if not for you, then for focused start-ups unencumbered with your fixed costs or your need to sell at a certain price to maintain margin.
How does your company make its money? I'll wager it's not in the way that you think.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, March 12, 2010
For Retirees, Social Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Golf
Bronwyn Fryer is a contributing editor to Harvard Business Review.
...Tags: Tags: Generational issues Personal effectiveness Social enterprise GTEC Let's say you're someone over 55 who has enjoyed roaring success in your career, launched your kids, called it quits. You've made your mark and your moolah, and you want to do more than spend your sunset years hanging out on a golf course in Florida.
You
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, March 12, 2010
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Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now Until recently, it was a conversation mostly confined to the raised-on-the-Net younger generation and a few older outliers. This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg.
You You say you want a revolution?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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Generations in China
Many thanks to all who joined the discussion several weeks ago regarding generations in India. This generation learned that affiliating with the "right" people was essential for survival, advice they undoubtedly offered to their children.
Members of this generation in China grew up with the belief that loyalty to the state and institutions would be rewarded, questioning authority was unacceptable, education was unnecessary, and anything "foreign" or "old fashioned" was unwanted. I hope those of you who grew up in China will share your formative experiences and the resultant conceptual models that influence your view of today's world.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Saturday, March 28, 2009
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Global Generations: Focus on India
I'm often asked if generations share common characteristics around the globe. The answer: to some extent, particularly among younger generations whose members were exposed to many of the same events through cable television and the Internet. But among older generations, the shared elements are much less significant and the national characteristics of the generations become increasingly unique.
By definition, a generation is a group a people who, based on their age, share not only a chronological location in history but also the experiences that accompany it .
HarvardBusiness.org
- Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Apple Tablet Insights From Harvard Business School Faculty
Four Harvard Business School professors offer their thoughts on this long-awaited and buzz-filled debut.
Watch for the tablet to generate spillbacks that support smart phones, netbooks, and notebooks. These perspectives originally appeared on the Harvard Business School Website .
...Tags: Excitement mounts as Apple CEO Steve Jobs prepares to unveil the company's newest product - its version of the tablet. Bhaskar Chakravorti
Senior
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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How Harvard Licensed its Brand
But while licensing can generate easy revenues, those royalties come with a potential risk to the brand. Consider Harvard University's recent ten year licensing arrangement with Wearwolf Group Ltd. of New York to develop and sell a line of preppy apparel bearing the "Harvard Yard" brand and crimson trim.
In a recession, marketers and institutions with strong brands may be tempted to license their names and trademarks. The University, presumably mindful of possible negative reputation effects, carefully avoided licensing the Harvard University logo or name.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Can India Reap Its Demographic Dividend?
This Summit, which marks the 25th year of WEF's engagement in India, is themed "India's Next Generation of Growth."
All CEOs and politicians — including Kapil Sibal, a Harvard Law grad recently appointed as India's new education minister — pointed out that in order for India to achieve, and sustain, a 9% growth rate in the next decade it must massively invest in human capital development.
For instance, Mr Sibal, despite his zealous push I am currently in New Delhi attending the India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) . Last Saturday,
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Use a Prius as an Emergency Generator [Clever Uses]
If you happen to be the owner of a Toyota Prius, or any other battery-packed hybrid car, you can use it as a surprisingly effective emergency generator. After a storm knocked out power in his neighborhood, John Sweeney did some characteristic things to keep warm in the chilly Massachusetts winter weather. His family bundled up, they burned wood, but for lack of an emergency generator to keep the lights on they took advantage of the battery based design of their Prius. The Harvard Press reports: Sweeney ran his refrigerator, freezer, TV, woodstove fan, and several lights through his Prius, for three days, on roughly five gallons of gas. “When it looked like we were going to be without power for awhile, I dug out an inverter (which takes 12v DC and creates 120v AC from it) and wired it into our Prius…These inverters are available for about $100 many places online,” he wrote.
Lifehacker
- Saturday, December 27, 2008
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[berkman] John Wilbanks on making science generative
John Wilbanks of Creative Commons (and head of Science Commons ) is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk about the threats to science’s generativity. He takes Jonathan Zittrain ’s definition of generativity: “a system’s capacity to produced unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.” Scientists often resist the factors that have increased generativity in other realms: 8221;
NOTE: Live-blogging.
Joho the Blog
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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India's Demographics: Favorable Today, Costly Tomorrow
Barry Bloom, former dean of Harvard's School of Public Health and one of the founding forces behind the Public Health Foundation of India, once relayed to me an example of such innovation. Tags: Generational issues Global business Indi India's favorable demographics are often touted as one of the major reasons behind the country's growth. Millions of educated Indians under the age of 30 act as the pistons firing in a multi-cylinder economic system, which continues to expand at enviable rates despite the global recession.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Geekiest Chic: Computer-Generated Jewelry
What do you get when you combine the brains of one Harvard-educated architect and one MIT Media Lab vet: Nervous System, a company that makes bespoke jewelry using generative algorithms.
Nervous System designs custom, high-tech jewelry on the cheap using rapid prototyping.
These pieces are cheap, compared to the custom data-visualization jewelry and furniture we've covered before--just $25 to $50 for a ring or necklace.
Fast Company
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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