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How Innovation Can Tame Chaotic Care
Lee is the network president of Partners Healthcare System, in Boston, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a co-author of Chaos and Organization in Health Care , and wrote the feature article Turning Doctors into Leaders in the April 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.
...Tags: HBR's " Ten Innovations That Will Transform Medicine " hit all the big ones, but I'm not so sure that the last three high-tech items in the list are going to make a major difference for many patients in the next few years — though I'd be shocked if they didn't have a huge impact a decade from now.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 15, 2010
Privacy Is Not Dead: Danah Boyd Talks About Privacy at SXSW
During today's SXSW keynote , social media research Danah Boyd , who works for Microsoft Research New England and is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talked about online privacy. To explain these issues, Boyd distinguished between articulated networks (address books, Facebook, Twitter), behavioral networks (based on common behavior, location, etc.) Specifically, she focused on how users can navigate issues around online privacy and how developers can help them to do so.
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ReadWriteWeb
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
2010-03-12 Spike activity
Not Exactly Rocket Science on how cooperative behaviour spreads through social networks, but so does cheating.
nugget from a piece on the work of Daniel Gilbert over at Harvard Magazine .
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The University of California has an interview with space psychiatrist Nick Kanas
Mind Hacks
- Friday, March 12, 2010
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Harvard Medical School Launches Swine Flu iPhone App
As the threat of the swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1) pandemic become more serious and President Obama declares a national emergency over the rapidly spreading virus, Harvard Medical School is hoping to help educate people with its new iPhone app. The app also features real-time updates and news from Harvard Med School about H1N1.
The Swine Flu app, which is currently available on the app store, costs $1.99.
The Swine Flu Application includes videos, animations and text that allow you to learn the basics about swine flu, how to reduce the risk to you and your family,
TechCrunch
- Monday, October 26, 2009
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Foursquare Follows The Facebook Model, Takes Its Game To Harvard
The latest deal between Harvard and Foursquare, falls into the latter category.
Harvard is the first university to use Foursquare to help its students explore the campus, the school notes today in its paper. Foursquare has set up a special Harvard page on the site that includes a special logo, and a series of tips. As part of its goal to expand beyond a simple location-based gaming service among friends, Foursquare has been cutting partnerships left and right. Some of these are for good causes, some are for potential business relationships, and some are just interesting.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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The New Harvard Business Review Site
As I detailed in a post on December 10 , the main goal of this redesign is to bring together the two sites we've been operating at Harvard Business Publishing into one site under the Harvard Business Review brand. On the new HBR.org you'll find our thriving network of thought-leader penned blogs alongside articles from the magazine and an archive that stretches back over 50 years. Welcome to the new HBR.org! Deputy Editor Katherine Bell and I are incredibly excited to show you around some of the new features and guide you to some of the places you already know and love.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, December 17, 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.
Even the process of getting one's wireless number transferred to the new AT&T network was done in a way that recognized the primacy of the user experience. 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
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HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Can Music Save MySpace?
MySpace is giving up on trying to be a major social network. If anything, this major overhaul of the social network is an attempt to return the site to becoming the popular entertainment hub it once was.
When MySpace hit the scene back in 2003, local bands - especially indie rock bands - were among the first to create profiles on the social network. Yesterday, amid all the news of Twitter's arrival into both Microsoft's Bing and the Google search engine, another major announcement was being made. According to MySpace CEO, Owen Van Natta, Facebook is no longer their competition.
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Productivity in a Networked Era – Assessing ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction)
Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts how value is created.
The network era now replacing the industrial age holds great promise. Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. Jay Cross and I recently co-authored this piece for CLO Magazine.
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The industrial age has run out of steam.
Wirearchy
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
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Provide Cut-and-Paste Worthy Copy to Secure a Favor [Career]
To that end, Harvard Business Blog offers some tips on how to secure a professional contact from someone not familiar with your stellar professional skills. Photo by kat m research . Harvard Business Blog's David Silverman cited a letter he received asking for some professional contacts. Browse the full post for other ways on how to curry favor from a professional contact you barely know, and feel free to offer your own methods in the comments. How to Ask a (Near) Stranger for a Favor [Harvard Business Blog]
...Tags: Who you know often matters as much, if not more than, what you know.
Lifehacker
- Monday, August 31, 2009
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Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
And some of those people tuned into the preview webcast put on by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society yesterday. But Harvard followed up by posting a video of the event to YouTube later in the day — a video without a single shot of the service!
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...Tags: There’s a lot of buzz swirling about Wolfram Alpha , the new computational search engine — perhaps too much . But regardless,
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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TED 2010 Day Two: Social Networks and Meatless Weekdays
Harvard professor and expert on social networks Nicholas Christakis powerfully showed the impact of social networks and how they relate to our everyday lives. Christakis explained why obese people increase the probability of other people in their social network becoming obese. While intuitive at a macro-level, the notion that you may be responsible for a friend's weight gain brings social Our positive and negative actions have a multiplier effect in our pervasively socially networked world.
Graham Hill , the founder of Treehugger.com, gave a compelling
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Harvard Biz Blog .. 5 Challenges to Business by Social Media
see the article co-authored with Jay Cross titled " Productivity in a Networked Era – ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction "
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Good summary blog post by David Armano … Five Challenges Social Media Will Bring To Business .
For those of us who have been following and / or participating in this arena for some time, there is nothing new in what is presented in this blog post:
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Wirearchy
- Friday, August 14, 2009
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