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So what exactly is Microsoft’s “.Net” and why should we take notice?

When Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft’s new strategy 18 months ago, their explanation of this “bet-the-company” move was – at least to this columnist – as clear as mud. As it turned out, I was not alone.

Content: Article | Author: Louise Kehoe | Source: FT.com | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Author: Allan R. Cohen | Subjects: Management, MBA Related

Venture Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

chief strategy officer at 12 Entrepreneuring; author of bestsellers Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities and Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management | Industry: Consulting

Managing IT is as much about business as it is about technology, and the drive to E-business is attracting a variety of managers with a variety of skills – many of them outside traditional IT.

Content: Article | Authors: Elisabeth Goodridge, Sandra Swanson | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

“Lieutenant, there are only three things you gotta remember: shoot, move and communicate.”
– advice given by a sergeant when he was serving in Vietnam.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Business Rules

Founder, with partner Tom Geniesse, of Quisic.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

The term “project finance” is generally used to refer to a nonrecourse or limited recourse financing structure in which debt, equity, and credit enhancement are combined for the construction and operation, or the refinancing, of a particular facility in a capital-intensive industry, in which lenders base credit appraisals on the projected revenues from the operation of the facility, rather than the general assets or the … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Institute of International Project Finance | Subjects: Finance, Project Management

The Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS) has created this all-encompassing portal intended to serve as a reference guide for project finance students, faculty, and researchers. The resources on the site are divided into two main sections. The Research and Publications list is directed at the academic community and includes bibliographies of articles, books and book chapters, and trade magazines, as well as … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Benjamin C. Esty | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Finance, Project Management

Content: Book | Author: Charles Ehin | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management

Most companies underestimate the importance of intangible assets such as knowledge, creativity, ideas, and relationships. All these account for more value in our economy than the tangibles. Yet it’s difficult for companies to get their arms around intangibles, so they rarely protect them as carefully as they do bricks and hardware. What would you do if your smartest people suddenly left? How can you ensure … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Best Practices, Knowledge Management

Twenty-five years after women first started pouring into the labor force–and trying to be more like men in every way, from wearing power suits to picking up golf clubs–new research is showing that men ought to be the ones doing more of the imitating…That’s the essential finding of a growing number of comprehensive management studies conducted by consultants across the country…By and large, the studies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rochelle Sharpe | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business

In this series Baruch Lev, of NYU’s Stern School of Business, alerts us to potentially hidden sources of value in our organizations – the intangibles. As the value of these assets become an increasingly important component of total value, management must understand how to not only maximize their value, but also how to communicate it to capital markets.

As Lev explains in Episode 1, intangibles … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Baruch Lev | Source: nMinds | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management

Still wondering why the dot.com bubble burst? And what’s going to happen to all those smaller bubbles, the approximately 12,000 dot-coms that are still alive, many of them just barely? In a paper entitled, Shakeouts in the New Economy, Wharton marketing professor George Day and co-author Adam Fein analyze the causes of the bust and tell how to pick which companies will survive the downturn. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: George Day | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Trends / Analysis

Paul Quintas is Professor of Knowledge Management at the Open University Business School (OUBS) and founding Director of the Management of Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit. In this Spotlight, Professor Quintas talks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of knowledge management and its development, and his role and research in the field.

Content: Article | Authors: Paul Quintas, Sarah Powell | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Knowledge Management, People

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop (those talents) into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish goals.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Skills, Success / Failure

Article provides a plain-english look at a new wireless technology that has the potential to shake up several markets.

Content: Article | Author: Stephen Baker | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis | Industry: Telecommunications

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Content: Quotation | Source: Foreign Policy | Subjects: Knowledge, Measurement

President of PlanetOut Partners, whose planetout.com website has become the Web’s premier destination for the gay and lesbian communities.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: tnbt.com | Subject: Management

Founder and chairman of i2 Technologies Inc., the Dallas-based maker of e-commerce software.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Management | Industry: Software