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This NYT article surfaces some amazing and tragic stakeholder issues. What would Milton Friedman say? Focus on behaviors that are unethical, yet still legal.
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This NYT article surfaces some amazing and tragic stakeholder issues. What would Milton Friedman say? Focus on behaviors that are unethical, yet still legal.
Ford is going give away 100 Fiestas to influencial individuals. Here are some of their measures:
"Do you have over 500 friends on Facebook?," "Do you have over 1,000 followers on Twitter or 250,000 subscribers on YouTube?" But these are basic thresholds; the next step is seeing what type of "pull" they get from their application videos on YouTube, which shows they can be a valuable agent for us.
This book could be useful for entre or innovation students. Popular in Japan and originally written by a McKinsey consultant for middle schoolers.
Some nice five forces lessons here.
Might be interesting to have student speculate on Yahoo's reorg.
Kosmix.com seems to aggregate interesting sources, particularly for management concepts
IHT article 2 23 09. Good to explore with 1001 students.
Nice discussion on how changes in the IPO market have affected VC exit strategies.
Good Economist article on why 50% of the world is now middle class. The China charts are quite interesting.
This is a great smart meter innovation by Google. It will be fun to watch it roll out.
A new running in packs strategy for consumer products companies. See the shameless promotion in this video. Not a bad business model for POY.