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The Journey from Chaos to Performance 05-13
The Journey from Chaos to PerformanceWithin my years of professional customers engagement, I have been in deep touch with the IT (or technology) departments there, visiting, helping, consulting or...
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SNHU's $10K Bachelor's Degree = Rethinking Higher Education Business ModelsThe higher education world is abuzz with the news of the disruptive $10,000 bachelors degree launched by Southern New...
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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic? 05-14
Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic? I spoke with contributor Don Sull, who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable...
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How to Design a Winning Business Model 05-15
How to Design a Winning Business ModelArtwork: Damián Ortega, Controller of the Universe, 2007, found tools and wire, 285 x 405 x 455 cmStrategy has been the primary building block of competitiveness...
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Making Business PersonalTo an extent that we ourselves are only beginning to appreciate, most people at work, even in high-performing organizations, divert considerable energy every day to a second job...
View ArticleThe Limits of Scale 05-15
The Limits of ScaleThe value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them. The fewer fax machines in use, for instance, the less important it is to have one. In...
View ArticleWhy the IT Sector Needs ‘Positive Disruption’05-15
Why the IT Sector Needs ‘Positive Disruption’Ganesh Ayyar took over as CEO of IT services firm Mphasis in 2009. His focus as CEO, he says, is to add sustainable business value to customers. According...
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How to Deal with a Slacker Coworker 05-15
How to Deal with a Slacker CoworkerNo one likes picking up someone else’s slack. But when a colleague leaves early, misses deadlines, and doesn’t give 100% to a project, it can be difficult to...
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Are You Tracking Metrics In Real-Time? 3 Steps To Measuring Innovation When...
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View ArticleThe Nice Person's Guide To Ruthless Time Management 05-17
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Parental controls Neural drivers identified in research on mice 05-17
Parental controlsNeural drivers identified in research on miceIt could be that the key to being a better parent is all in your head, Harvard researchers say.In a study in mice, Catherine Dulac, the...
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Happy 123rd Birthday, Philips! 05-18
Happy 123rd Birthday, Philips!In striving for a better future, it is sometimes enlightening to reflect on past triumphs. For the most creative imaginations can often be fuelled by memories of our...
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The Power of Collaboration 05-27
The Power of CollaborationYears before I joined Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn in 2009, I always supported the efforts of groups to work together, and urged my friends and associates to do the same....
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A List of Top Schools Feeding the Asset Management Industry 05-28
A List of Top Schools Feeding the Asset Management IndustryZuma PressData provider eVestment is out with a research report Tuesday that attempts to answer the question: Which university has produced...
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Degrees from the old times 05-28
History by degreesIn all shapes and sizes, diplomas of the 17th and 18th centuries provide glimpses of their eras This diploma for George Alcock, A.B. 1673, is the earliest known example in the Harvard...
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2Puritan minister Increase Mather, Harvard’s sixth president, signed this 1701 Master of Arts diploma for his son Samuel Mather.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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3This is an 1840 replica of the honorary LL.D. bestowed by Harvard on George Washington — “Georgium Washington” — on April 18, 1776.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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4. An 1883 certificate from the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women attesting that Grace Rebecca Canfield had completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor of arts degree at the school...
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5. Grace Rebecca Canfield’s subsequent A.B. degree from Radcliffe College in 1894, its first year.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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6. The “general degree diploma” of 1752, the earliest of its type preserved in Harvard collections. Such diplomas, listing all graduates, were printed in years when Commencement was interrupted by war,...
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