For my final paper I would like to further explore Colleges and Universities as organizations, and how difficult it is to change them in order to accommodate for new innovations. More specifically, I plan to look at the effect that the “Green Movement” and sustainability have had on higher education. The green movement and sustainability [...]
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Here is a little from a NY Times editorial about the student loan program. Interesting example of how the rules of a particular industry get written. This industry may hit a little closer to home than railroads or shipping. Private companies that reap undeserved profits from the federal student-loan program are gearing up to kill [...]
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This was in NY Times. They use a measure of actual journal browsing behavior to create a map of knowledge. If you like this, you can take a peek at this map not of o-line browsing, but co-citation. As in, I cite a paper in Journal B, but I am published in Journal A. Co-citation [...]
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Economic Meltdown Bankers – Harvard MBA, Stern School of Business – Business School | wowOwow Which schools are the Academies of the Apocalypse, and who and how many went to each? Is how Deborah Barrow launches into her list. Harvard is on top. This is amusing, but not a very systematic pool of candidates.
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The Best of Bloginization This Week… General Tips and Suggestions: Write with care, compose your posts in Microsoft Word to avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes. Review your posts at least once before publishing. When adding hyperlinks to your posts, select the text you wish to link and click the Insert/edit link button (or press Alt + [...]
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Announcing This Week’s Best Of… Thanks to Ross and Blaire, this week’s Blgo Council. They also wrote our new “About Us” page. Best Overall (content and writing) Zuffola’s “Rock Bottom” Most Theoretical Using the way back machine to pull in Fayol, the award goes to Kristin’s “Enron and The Former President.” The Blogitzer (Blog + [...]
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