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November 11, 2009

GS Taking Vaccines, Really!?!

Some of you who watched Saturday Night Live this weekend might have seen the "Really" news skit portion with Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers covering H1N1 vaccines going to Wall Street if not, here it is. Maureen Dowd from the New York Times wrote a scathing piece calling Goldman Sachs, “Goldmine Sachs” entitled Virtuous Bankers? Really!?! where she provides a short description of the SNL dialog as well as addressing Wall Street’s other misbehaviors. The Wall Street Journal reports that Goldman Sachs requested 5,400 vaccine doses, and as far as we know only received 200. One small light shone on the ethics deprived landscape that is Wall Street in that Morgan Stanley agreed to distribute its 1000 doses of the vaccine to local hospitals for distribution.

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Posted, in Business Ethics, by Helen Losch | | Comments (0)

 

November 10, 2009

Chocolate Egg Laying Chicken vs. Cream Cheese

Kraft is in the throes of a hostile takeover of the very British company, Cadbury. The “takeover dance” which has been talk of for a while has finally come to pass. There is an outcry from Englishmen to keep Cadbury British. Cadbury went as far as saying that it felt the bid by Kraft was “derisory.” What is going on? It seems Kraft wants to grow its business and believes this is the way to proceed. Cadbury has been doing well for itself even surpassing expectations last quarter. The Financial Times is indicates that since Kraft has shown its hand that some Hedge Funds might be interested in jumping in to bid.

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Posted, in Business News, by Helen Losch | | Comments (0)

 

Leading Innovation

As described on his blog, Stanford Professor Bob Sutton has been leading a workshop on spurring innovation, together with Professor Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao and others. Customer Focused Innovation is the name of the program, in which executives spend mornings reviewing cases, theories and models and afternoons applying design thinking. Among their projects is a collaboration with a local Tesla motors dealer to improve the Tesla car ownership experience. Included in Sutton's blog is a list of 21 things 'that great bosses believe and do' to lead innovation.

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Posted, in GSB Community, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

November 9, 2009

The Beginning of SV

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Ever wonder how the region Silicon Valley got its name? What were the first companies in the valley? Discover Silicon Valley's history in these sources:

Silicon Valley [videorecording] : a one hundred year renaissance / [produced by] Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, c1998
Jackson Library - Media Center Collection Media Center Video 223

Making Silicon Valley : innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970 / Christophe Lécuyer.
Jackson Library - Main HC107.C22 S395 2006

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Posted, in Business History, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (0)

 

November 6, 2009

Mickey 2.0

Two centuries ago Robert Burns famously wrote "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, gang aft agley". Words to be heeded, perhaps, by top dogs at Disney today. According to an article in the New York Times, the corporation is embarking on a risky remake of its pop culture fixture Mickey Mouse. A new, more cantankerous and cunning Mickey will make his appearance in a coming video game. For decades Mickey has been carefully preserved in cultural formaldehyde, but the market for mouse momentos has been shrinking, so Disney execs feel it is time to update their icon for a new generation. They know they are treading on thin ice. Remember 'New Coke'?

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Posted, in Business News, Marketing, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

November 3, 2009

SBA Channel

The Small Business Administration has its own YouTube channel, where you can view video interviews with successful entrepreneurs who share the lessons they've learned about owning a small business. Pick the topic that interests you or sit back watch all the videos.

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Posted, in Business News, by Helen Losch | | Comments (0)

 

November 2, 2009

Ready For Prime Time

According to data released by comScore, a whopping 125.5 million Americans watched some 10.3 billion YouTube videos in September alone. That's an average of 154 videos per viewer; the average online viewer watched 9.8 hours of video that month. Move over television -- there's a new boob tube in town.

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Posted, in Entertainment, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

Venture Capital is still breathing

The VC industry has had a tough year but the firm Greylock Partners, has put together a new $575 million fund, one of the biggest to be created in the last year.

A New York Times article goes on to say "The venture industry has been pummeled in the last year by dismal conditions that have made it difficult for start-ups to go public or get acquired by bigger companies. Many have predicted that the number of venture firms could shrink by as much as half."

What the industry will look like in a year is anyone's guess, but for now it's still alive and kicking.

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Posted, in Finance & Investment, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (0)

 

October 29, 2009

Sweet Tweet

Guy Kawasaki has become a Twitter evangelist. His new blog entry, Current Twitter Demo Script, is a compendium of links he uses to demo Twitter and spread awareness of Twitter as a marketing tool. Included are tips on Twittering for maximum effectiveness. Sweet.

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Posted, in Marketing, by Paul Reist | | Comments (1)

 

October 26, 2009

Twitter On

Soon Twitter is going to launch two new features called "Lists" and "Retweets" which were created by Twitter engineers who watch "how people use the service and which ideas catch on. Then its engineers turn the ideas into new features." A New York Times article talks about how other companies have "morphed" their orginal business idea into to something different and have in turn been more successful.
Read about it.

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Posted, in Business News, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (2)

 


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