R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
In College, Nurturing Matters
MAY 7, 2014
I was a college freshman at Grambling State University in Louisiana. It was the middle of the night, the day before a personal essay was due for a writing seminar. I had put it off for days. I had nothing — nothing but writer’s block. Read more of this post
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
Scientists Add Letters to DNA’s Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear
By ANDREW POLLACKMAY 7, 2014
Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. Read more of this post
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
For Wearable Computing, Software Must Be King
By NICK BILTON
MAY 7, 2014, 4:25 PM 14 Comments
Over the last few years, we have heard that there will be wearable devices for almost every part of the body, from face to feet. But people have paid little attention to the software that accompanies these gadgets. Read more of this post
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
Can the Kochs Hold Back History?
MAY 8, 2014
For a time, the press lord William Randolph Hearst did everything in his vast powers to keep the film “Citizen Kane” from finding an audience. He intimidated theater owners, refused to let ads run in his newspapers, and even pressured studio sycophants to destroy the negative. Read more of this post
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
Patient’s Cells Deployed to Attack Aggressive Cancer
By DENISE GRADYMAY 8, 2014
Doctors have taken an important step toward a long-sought goal: harnessing a person’s own immune system to fight cancer.
An article published Thursday in the journal Science describes the treatment of a 43-year-old woman with an advanced and deadly type of cancer that had spread from her bile duct to her liver and lungs, despite chemotherapy. Read more of this post
May 11, 2014 Leave a comment
The Unlikely Ascent of Jack Ma, Alibaba’s Founder
By NEIL GOUGH and ALEXANDRA STEVENSONMAY 7, 2014
HONG KONG — The first time Jack Ma used the Internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend. Within hours, he received a handful of emails from around the world requesting information.
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
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7 Things Successful People Do During An Afternoon Lull
JACQUELYN SMITH CAREERS APR. 30, 2014, 2:41 AM
Successful people take a break and get some fresh air during an afternoon lull.
Do you feel like your ability to focus and your supply of discipline and willpower are always dwindling by 2 p.m.? Read more of this post
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
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Why Taco Bell Won’t Win At Breakfast
BURGERBUSINESS.COM RETAIL APR. 29, 2014, 11:35 PM
Will Taco Bell’s breakfast program be a success? Well, yes, if the standard it uses is Woody Allen’s quip that “80% of success is showing up.” Read more of this post
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
How Napkin Sketches During A Pixar Lunch Meeting Led To Four Of The Studio’s Greatest Movies
FRANK PALLOTTA ENTERTAINMENT APR. 29, 2014, 11:59 PM
For the first time in 9 years a Pixar film will not be on the summer movie schedule.
Fans will have to wait until next year’s “The Good Dinosaur” to enjoy the vibrant colors and heartfelt story that has help make Pixar an animation giant for over a decade. Read more of this post
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
A volatile love affair with exchange funds and indexes
1:56am EDT
By Mike Dolan
LONDON (Reuters) – The blossoming love affair with index-based investing and exchange-traded funds is sweeping aside more traditional investment management with its hefty fee premium, even if it is stoking market volatility. Read more of this post
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
China central bank warns against same-day stock trading
Tue, Apr 29 2014
By Pete Sweeney
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) warned against implementing a same-day trading system for mainland stocks on Tuesday, as securities regulators consider how best to protect retail investors from manipulation by institutional funds. Read more of this post
April 30, 2014 Leave a comment
Caregiver of mentally-ill wife: ‘I prayed that she would die before me’
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014
The New Paper
By Chai Hung Yin
SINGAPORE – “People told me I gave my wife unconditional love, but it was her who gave me unconditional love.” Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
A Long Obedience
APRIL 14, 2014
Monday night was the start of Passover, the period when Jews celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from slavery into freedom. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
How to survive a “flat management” mutiny
BY DAVID BARRETT, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
ON APRIL 14, 2014
Flat management structures are all the rage, and with good reason: innovation is the lifeblood of a startup, and nothing kills innovation like micromanagement. But scaling a flat management structure is harder than it seems. Plenty has already been written about the risks of accidentally creating the stuff of highschool Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Shocking no one, frothy food startups hit a five year funding high
BY CARMEL DEAMICIS
ON APRIL 14, 2014
There may be skeptics out who think food startups are just restaurants with investment funding. Chipotle meets Kleiner Perkins. Unoriginal and doomed for failure. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Rich Start-Ups Go Back for Another Helping
By DAVID GELLES and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
April 13, 2014
Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn’t need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago.
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
The problem facing Asia’s emerging smartphone makers is that they don’t make smartphones
By Leo Mirani @lmirani
April 14, 2014
Micromax, an Indian company that emerged from nowhere to become the second-largest smartphone maker (after Samsung) by market share in India’s growing market, has a problem: It doesn’t make smartphones. Like most homegrown brand-name sellers of smartphones in Asia, it outsources production to manufacturers in China. Xiaomi, Micromax’s counterpart in China, has built a reputation for well-designed phones at prices few others can match. But it finds itself in the same boat. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
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KDDI sending futuristic technologies to a screen near you
STAFF WRITER
APR 14, 2014
While technology continues to brings us new and unexpected ways to make our lives more convenient, it is difficult to predict how much further it will evolve and the impact it will have on the world. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
In China, a Big Jet Becomes a Status Symbol
APRIL 14, 2014
By JOE SHARKEY
IN the United States, public reaction to the corporate use of business jets can be scathing when instances of obvious excess become publicized, such as the day in 2008 when the top executives of the Detroit automakers each used a private jet to fly to Washington to argue for $25 billion in taxpayer bailouts. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
M&A regulation Chinese style: Restrict a merger, invest in the aftermath
April 14, 2014
Mergers and acquisitions are supposedly all about synergy between the companies involved. It’s unusual to see it blossom between a company and an antitrust regulator, yet that’s exactly what seems to have happened in the case of the Chinese government and the Switzerland-based mining group Glencore-Xstrata. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Can Wanxiang really become China’s Tesla?
Staff Reporter
2014-04-15
Lu Guanqiu, second left, briefs visitors on the company’s development of electric cars, Nov. 24, 2013. (Photo/Xinhua)
Lu Guanqiu, 69, the founder of Hangzhou-based Wanxiang Group, a leading Chinese auto parts maker, seems to have moved a step closer towards his dream of building complete cars, after his enterprise bought American plug-in hybrid sports carmaker Fisker Automotive earlier this year. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
In Many Cities, Rent Is Rising Out of Reach of Middle Class
By SHAILA DEWANAPRIL 14, 2014
MIAMI — For rent and utilities to be considered affordable, they are supposed to take up no more than 30 percent of a household’s income. But that goal is increasingly unattainable for middle-income families as a tightening market pushes up rents ever faster, outrunning modest rises in pay. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Steve Jobs’ 13 Most Inspiring Quotes
DYLAN LOVE TECH APR. 15, 2014, 9:08 AM
With a life as storied as he had, it’s no wonder that Steve Jobs is remembered not only for running an incredibly successful company, but for being tremendously outspoken. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Prices Soaring for Specialty Drugs, Researchers Find
By KATIE THOMASAPRIL 15, 2014
Even as the cost of prescription drugs has plummeted for many Americans, a small slice of the population is being asked to shoulder more and more of the cost of expensive treatments for diseases like cancer and hepatitis C,according to a report to be released on Tuesday by a major drug research firm. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure
DRAKE BAER STRATEGY APR. 15, 2014, 4:41 AM
About a third of us work in open offices. They’re cheaper than giving everybody their own space. Management gurus tell us they promote “collaboration,” “serendipity,” and other buzzwords.
The only problem is that open plan offices actually make people worse at their jobs. Here’s why:
The open office will make you less satisfied with your work, study finds. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives Hardcover
by John D. Mayer (Author)
John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence—which he calls personal intelligence—to understand our own personality and the personalities of the people around us. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Businesses must adopt a buccaneering mentality
Working with small organisations allows you to concentrate on business itself rather than the wider governance issues at larger companies
Former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy is an ambassador for the International Festival for Business
By Sir Terry Leahy
9:30PM BST 13 Apr 2014
Businesses in the UK are facing more questions than ever before. Emerging from the wreckage brought on by the worst economic crisis in living memory, British companies have been forced to adapt to a new financial landscape – with varying degrees of success. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
As India goes to the polls, its banking chief could pay price of prescience
His views were once dismissed as Luddite, but Raghuram Rajan is key to rebuilding Indian economic confidence, writes Jeremy Warner
The son of an Indian bureaucrat who was brought up in Delhi, Prof Rajan shot to fame for his prescience on the financial crisis Photo: Bloomberg Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Elections: Spawning Business Opportunities
by Debojyoti Ghosh, Peter Griffin | Apr 15, 2014
The Great Indian Election Roadshow has spawned a bustling marketplace for ideas and commerce
For some, the world’s biggest exercise in democracy also means a chance to start new enterprises, expand existing ones, or set the ground for future endeavours. We talked to a few of these entrepreneurs to find out more about their business models (even though some of them resist being classified as businesses). This is by no means an exhaustive list, nor does it cover every type of enterprise. Read more of this post
April 24, 2014 Leave a comment
A manufacturing future that hums (rattles, hisses) along
April 14, 2014: 12:57 PM ET
Fortune visits Shapeways’ New York factory to check in on the three-dimensional printing revolution.
By Alex Halperin
FORTUNE — Every day, the young, bearded, and tattooed team at the Shapeways factory in Long Island City, Queens gather to eat together, as if they lived in a 19th century company town. There aren’t many dining options in the industrial area in which they work, so they order takeout pizza or food from FreshDirect and convene. Their routine is fitting: Shapeways, a three-dimensional printing company, tips its hat to the industrial past even as it seeks to reinvent manufacturing. Read more of this post
咬定青山不放松，立根原在破岩中。 千磨万击还坚劲，任尔东西南北风。
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