Author: timbatchelder

  • Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy

    Editorials, bloomberg.com After Hur­ri­cane Sandy, sur­vivors need­ed, in addi­tion to safe­ty and power, the abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices were knocked out for days. The prob­lem? The com­pa­nies that… http://flpbd.it/aV6Ma Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy Related articles Coldplay’s Chris Martin Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief…

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  • MBA Pay: The Devil’s in the Details Louis Lavelle, businessweek.com For many years, prospec­tive busi­ness school stu­dents have stud­ied the career stats for the nation’s top MBA pro­grams like hand­i­cap­pers por­ing over the Daily Rac­ing Form before the big race. But unlike that august pub­li­ca­tion,… http://flpbd.it/IFCzV

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  • MBA Pay: The Devil’s in the Details Louis Lavelle, businessweek.com For many years, prospec­tive busi­ness school stu­dents have stud­ied the career stats for the nation’s top MBA pro­grams like hand­i­cap­pers por­ing over the Daily Rac­ing Form before the big race. But unlike that august pub­li­ca­tion,… http://flpbd.it/IFCzV

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  • MBA Pay: The Devil’s in the Details Louis Lavelle, businessweek.com For many years, prospec­tive busi­ness school stu­dents have stud­ied the career stats for the nation’s top MBA pro­grams like hand­i­cap­pers por­ing over the Daily Rac­ing Form before the big race. But unlike that august pub­li­ca­tion,… http://flpbd.it/IFCzV

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  • Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?

    By Osha Gray Davidson, bloomberg.com InsideClimateNews.org (Phoenix, Ari­zona) — From a block away, the house was hard­ly vis­i­ble, hid­den by a dense stand of native mesquite and palo verde trees and tall clumps of prick­ly pear cac­tus. Close up, you could see the con­crete block… http://flpbd.it/wYLbh Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?…

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  • Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

    By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halt­ing, mea­sured lan­guage we’ve come to expect from his impromp­tu pub­lic remarks, Pres­i­dent Obama posed a core dilem­ma of cli­mate change yes­ter­day at his first post-election press con­fer­ence. Explain­ing the pos­si­ble… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…

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  • Drug company employees vote for Obama while PACs vote Republican

    Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli…

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  • Obamacare sparks new jobs for tech workers

    Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com John Tri­c­as said he heard oppor­tu­ni­ty knock­ing and learned net­work­ing soft­ware two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he sens­es a sim­i­lar open­ing as the health-care over­haul law takes effect. In Sep­tem­ber, the… http://flpbd.it/1fR6x…

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  • HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it’s a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure. You think you’ve had bad days? Home­Away co-founder Brian Sharples once l… http://flpbd.it/vdiDV HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures Related articles HomeAway…

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