UBC
College Education In Crisis: By Bill Gates
This Bill Gates PowerPoint presentation provides further evidence, if we didn’t already know, that higher…
Smart Mobile
E-books Not Blowing Up Textbook Industry Yet
No question that the university textbook business is a train wreck, but what really surprises…
Jazz
Dave Brubeck: In Memoriam
Tonight I learned that Dave Brubeck has passed one day before his 92nd birthday. A…
International Business
Paul Polman: Corporate Strategy Visionary
My undergraduate and graduate students may find this an interesting topic for discussion and debate.…
UBC
Too Much Foam. Too Little Guinness: Accelerator Shakeout On The Horizon?
http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/03/we-know-accelerators-are-headed-for-a-shakeout-but-do-they/ I have an ominous feeling of deja vu. But it may not be all…
The Cloud
The clouds still hanging over Facebook
As John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems has pointed out, the corporate life cycle has…
The Cloud
Management In The Brave New World: The Cloud, Big Data And Smart Mobile
This is the first in a series I will be posting on management education and…
Database Management
Seven Reasons Why Big Data is Worth Shifting a Career For
Seven Reasons Why Big Data is Worth Shifting a Career For.
Argumentation & Debate
Introvert or Extrovert: Authentic Presentations Take Practice
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/11/authentic_presentations_take_p.html Great post from the HBR blog yesterday. Whether you are an introvert or an…
Database Management
Inside Google Spanner: The Single Largest Database in the World
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/ The fascinating description of Google’s Spanner, arguably the single largest “known” database in the…
