AT&T Labs Research – July 2012. Related articles IBM Opens Its First Research Lab in Africa (voanews.com) IBM to open research lab in Kenya (bbc.co.uk) You Can Find a Job in R&D If You Look Hard Enough (news.dice.com) 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Social Anthropology in Norway (phdland.com) Microsoft hires 14 Yahoo researchers to kickstart…
An article by Wired reviews the impact of bottom up, socially driven approaches to innovation. Related articles 74% Of Millenials Don’t Believe Their Workplace is Innovative (luckyrobot.com) Why Innovation Programs Are A Total Waste Of Time (ceo.com) Larry Page: Why Companies Fail (ceo.com) The Strategy And Management Secrets Of Google’s Larry Page (businessinsider.com)
Okay I finally was admitted to the elite Google Voice invite only club. Now I’m getting visual voicemails from everyone to my email. What could be better? Related articles Sprint: Google Voice deal ‘extremely important’ for us (reviews.cnet.com) Hands-On: Google Voice for iPhone still slightly underbaked (reviews.cnet.com) Using Google Voice: A Step By Step Guide…
R&D 2.0: Fewer Engineers, More Anthropologists – Navi Radjou – HarvardBusiness.org. According to an article in HBR version 1.0 of the global R&D model, still in practice, uses low-cost but high-quality technical talent in emerging markets to crank out products and services that either get exported back to developed markets or are targeted to middle-class…
The End of Rational Economics – HBR.org . According to the latest issue of HBR in 2008, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve once hailed as “the greatest banker who ever lived,” confessed to Congress that he was “shocked” that the markets did not operate according to his lifelong expectations. He…
According to an article in Strategy and Business “Any significant transformation creates “people issues.” New leaders will be asked to step up, jobs will be changed, new skills and capabilities must be developed, and employees will be uncertain and resistant. Dealing with these issues on a reactive, case-by-case basis puts speed, morale, and results at…
State helping to shape US efforts to digitize health records for all – The Boston Globe. Great article on the ability of Mass to lead the way in health informatics as the Silicon valley of health IT.
My friend Jay told me about this one. About $500/month per person for a shared office space desk in a premium area. Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences…
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