Category: Knowledge Management

  • Downsized, but still in the game: information hoarding in economic downturns

      Downsized, but still in the game – The Boston Globe.   This article discusses survival syndrome which is increasingly common and includes creating information silos and information hoarding behavior as more employees fear for their jobs in the recession.     Related articles   A Hoarding Culture vs. A Sharing Culture (educationinnovation.typepad.com) Arriving at…

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  • Neuroscience tricks

    Boston.com – Ideas – Globe. Great article on various neuroscience tricks. Related articles How Neuroscience Will Help Create a New Architecture (bigthink.com) New Neuroethics Blog: Penn Minds the Gap (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Neurotree: A Collaborative, Graphical Database of the Academic Genealogy of Neuroscience (plosone.org) Will Neuroscience Radically Transform the Legal System? (slate.com) AstraZeneca builds virtual neuroscience drug…

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  • WikiMatrix – Compare them all

    WikiMatrix – Compare them all. My friend Peter Dorfman told me about this site which compares all the Wiki platforms. Related articles Wiki Research Ideas/Submission rules (meta.wikimedia.org) Make WordPress Look Like a Wiki: 5 Ways (wpjedi.com) A Comprehensive List of Educational Wikis you might Need (teacherlingo.com) User:Happy-melon/Templates (meta.wikimedia.org) Wikimedia wikis (meta.wikimedia.org) Wikimedia visual identity guidelines…

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  • Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

    Yikes. His conclusion is that MBA students at Harvard insecure overachievers and “a factory of unhappy people”. Related articles Is management a religion? (lucasolari.com) How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World (bostonmagazine.com)

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  • Oxford MBA: global business + real beer

    Degree programmes. 21 months. 51k Euros. Good beer. Related articles Media Invitation: Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2012 Will Examine Big Data – Hailed as the Next Technological Revolution That is Set to Transform How We do Business (prweb.com) Admissions Director Q&A: Stephan Chambers of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University (clearadmit.com) The entrepreneurs…

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  • Cornell University MBA: Liberal arts + business

    Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Related articles CEO of Colombia’s Largest Bank to Deliver Durland Lecture on October 18 (prnewswire.com) Cornell Offers a Virtual Peak at its Upcoming New York City Tech Incubation Campus (scientificamerican.com) BioCell Technology to Highlight Widening Applications of BioCell Collagen at the International Society of Sports…

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  • Matchmaking takes a high tech approach

    Matchmaking takes a high tech approach – The Boston Globe. High tech meets cross cultural reality: biodata approaches take tradition family based decisions about marriage which account for education, income, genes, background, occupation, and interests and were once decided by families Related articles Traditional Matchmaking Goes On-Line With the First of its Kind Hosted Video…

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  • Ultrasound Detection to Beat Cancer

      Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer.   Interesting to note that a new ultrasound method is even more accurate than CT scan and much less dangerous. Ultrasound guided treatments are very promising.     Related articles   Ultrasound for Breast Cancer Detection (everydayhealth.com) A company’s novel approach to ultrasound to…

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  • Evolutionary curveball for curvy

    Evolutionary curveball for curvy? – The Boston Globe. Current issue of Current Anthropology links body shape, assertiveness and economic viability in recession. Related articles Evolutionary Psychology Primer (thisismyphd.wordpress.com) Are there universals in human behavior? (psychologytoday.com) Evolution and the mind: An author’s response (salon.com)

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  • Competitive Intelligence (CI) books

    Amazon.com: Competitive Intelligence (CI). I’m looking for good books that I can recommend to others on searching online using major databases such as Lexis, Factiva, Ovid Related articles The Importance of Competitive Intelligence for B2B Companies Outlined in Latest White Paper (prweb.com) CI Radar Announces New Competitive Intelligence Tool (prweb.com) Comintelli Wins Major Competitive Intelligence…

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