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Think+Up is a free online community where you can interact with experts in business and academia—the faculty, contributing scholars, graduates, and current and future students of the College of Management and Technology at Walden University. The College of Management and Technology hosts this site as
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For centuries humans have used the power of magnetism—whether to find their way through rough seas, to stick a note to the refrigerator or even to describe the force of love.The work of thousands of physicists from dozens of countries around the world called upon that power when they completed more
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Could algae, the green slime that crowds out life in ponds and rivers, be a sustainable fuel source? Could it power cars, factories and keep the industrialized world humming?Scientists say it's possible. And a two-minute video proposes that the X Prize Foundation award a multimillion-dollar prize to a
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There's been a lot of talk in the media and the blogosphere about what's going to happen with renewable energy investments and efforts to regulate carbon now that the economy has taken a dive. Basically, can we afford to still be green?In most instances I say we can. Sure, a barrel of oil is cheaper now.
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We recently had the pleasure of Dr. Evan Selinger, assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, speak on Innovation and Responsible Development at our recent Social Impact Speaker Series.Part of his presentation focused on the unintended impact of our decisions - which is why
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First, what is leadership? There are as many definitions of leadership as there are authors. That is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of agreement about whether leadership is a position, a person, a behavioral act, a style or a relationship, as much as it is due to the lack of agreement about exactly
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Walden is both a champion of online learning and one of the great examples of it. But it is also an online employer with virtual employees. both full and part-time, scattered in multiple countries working from homes and small offices doing everything from teaching classes to executive management. In
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In a recent post on the impact that corporate sustainability programs can have in driving bottom line savings during an era of shrinking top line revues, a commenter asked for a follow-up post on the tactics leading organizations are using to achieve results. Great request and I’ll do my best to oblige.
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Can a plane fly with no jet fuel? Ridiculous, right? But the aviation industry is starting to ask itself this very question. In early 2008, Virgin Airlines and Boeing launched a test flight where one engine ran partly on biofuels, in this case coconut oil. I've done some work with Boeing and heard their
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Of all the machines that make business tick, the digital computer has long stood out—indeed, it has been revered—as perhaps the cleanest and greenest of them all. Quiet, smokeless, unobtrusive, this compact box of microchips hums away, adding efficiency to all that it touches. And year over year,
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It’s an inevitable fate in the corporate sphere: a company forms and blooms under the guidance of a visionary, but often faces an uncertain future when that founder dies or moves on. Booming enterprises, from Wendy’s to Wal-Mart, and non-profits like Habitat for Humanity International, have all experienced
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I have come across many executives from various countries and diverse backgrounds and it seems that they fall in either of 2 categories: those who love and those who hate Social Media (née Web 2.0). To many a big logo, social media is fascinating in more than many ways, to others it’s a no go area
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Managing one’s online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a photograph on one’s Facebook profile in which he or she is holding a glass of champagne and assuming weird poses (and God knows I came across quite a
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By now, they’re familiar to anyone who has been around the Web a few times, showing up wherever comments or votes are solicited or visitors are asked to sign in or register themselves. They appear as small boxes containing one or two words, or a string of random characters, whose shapes look melted,
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Of the nearly $800 billion invested in America’s economic stimulus package, a hefty chunk is being funneled into new infrastructure projects—roads, bridges, sewer plants and much more. Some of these are “shovel-ready,” meaning they are finished the planning stages and are ready to start the physical
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The Wall Street Journal had an article on what innovation means to small business. Dev Patnaik, the founder of Jump Associates is interviewed. In it, he identifies complexities modern businesses face like, "How can my company stand out from the competition?". He goes on to list three ingredients to innovate:
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Some solutions to environmental problems are dizzyingly complex. Others are surprisingly simple.Last week at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference, the Environmental Defense Fund released its 2009 Innovations Review—a collection of new ideas, products and services that are good for business and good
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Roxboro, N.C., wasn’t always a town struggling to survive. “We used to be able to attract industries because of our community college, plenty of water, good churches, good schools, and good people. But we can’t attract them now,” laments Thomas Brown, mayor of Roxboro, the city and county seat
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In March 2009, computer software maker Adobe Systems Inc. announced it had cut its research and development spending by 10 percent for the year. Adobe’s decision is just one answer to the question facing many companies in this economic downturn: “Where do we trim the fat?”Like Adobe, some companies
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In our previous article about social media, we have described the 8 reasons why managers love social media and we have also debunked a few commonplace myths. In this new instalment we’ll look at the flip side of corporate social media perception, the negative one, and we will also discuss the rationale
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In nature, there are a variety of ways that organisms can disappear. There are those associated with predation and competition, of course. But there are two others that are integrally related to the processes of natural selection and evolution.The more interesting of the two from the perspective of organizational
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Wikis—Web-based content systems that are user editable—are among several means of knowledge-sharing within an organization. But why is it so important to share knowledge?Take a hypothetical employee, Brian. He was recently laid off from a large company where he was in charge of the payroll system,
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With all the research conducted in the name of management science, one question still remains that has perplexed managers for years: “Now that we know what enlightenment is and have a model of its organizational manifestation (humanistic, engaging, participative, collegial) why is it so damn hard to
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In his first six months in office, President Obama has spoken at length about service, social innovation and professional responsibility. They are some of the core means for achieving his domestic agenda. He sees them as part of how we address issues in our society on a systemic basis.Service is about
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Some years ago, at an early peak in the frenzy stirred up by the modern leadership movement’s gurus, doctorates in fields generally related to leadership began to appear in universities across the United States. Most of these were designed to create PhDs in something called “leadership studies;”
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Of all the topics surrounding the web, there is one which tops the list from a marketing point of view and it’s Search Engine Optimization (aka SEO). It is indeed one of the most important levers for bringing traffic to a site. I can barely think of a Marketing manager I have bumped into in the past
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The World Wide Web was supposed to make life easier. And it has, but increasingly, it may seem like too much of a good thing: too much information, too many moving parts, too many options, not enough structure. Say you’re trying to plan a family vacation on the West Coast and all that entails. In the
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It is now obvious that computer and telecommunications technologies are influencing every aspect of our lives in dramatic and inescapable ways. And while we admire the Internet’s presence, the hardware that connects us, and the enormous capabilities of the fiber-optic vines and badly disguised
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Of all the resource shortages in the world, you wouldn't think water—on a planet covered by more than 326 million cubic miles of the substance—would be one of the most serious. Yet, the United Nations Development Program estimates nearly a billion people lack access to clean water.The problem
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