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Ellen Levy

A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good - Video - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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    Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School professor and historian, explains how socially responsible business dates back to modern capitalism's founding era.
Rebecca Benner

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/business/SenatorGrassleyReport.pdf - 0 views

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    Ghostwriting--hot topic this year.
arnie Grossblatt

South Korea's 'Minerva' arrested - 0 views

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    South Korean blogger arrested - for correctly predicting the economic downturn. Disturbingly, the majority of SK business leaders support the arrest.
arnie Grossblatt

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 0 views

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    This article is over a year old, and soon to be updated by Chris Anderson's book of the same title, but it's still well worth the read.
arnie Grossblatt

Jonah Lehrer Shops a Book on the Power of Love - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    Do you think this book will undergo editorial scrutiny?
arnie Grossblatt

Author's Unmasking Won't Stop Book - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Publisher proceeding with a book based on a known false premise.
Mark Schreiber

Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - 0 views

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    Article looks at three separate studies of the educational benefit of home computers for lower income children. The studies indicate that the educational value of universal broadband access may be minimal, or worse, harmful.
arnie Grossblatt

Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads. Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
  • A Wall Street Journal investigation of the practice showed tracking to be pervasive and ever-more intrusive:
  • The 50 most-popular U.S. websites, including four run by Microsoft, installed an average of 64 pieces of tracking technology each onto a test computer.
arnie Grossblatt

The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
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    This is not likely to have any real effect. Textbooks are sold to a captive market. Those who are paying their tuition without benefit of student loans will buy the books without thinking too much about the cost. Those who are going to school on student loans will go into debt.
arnie Grossblatt

Welcome to Wylie World! | SQUARE BOOKS - 1 views

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    The Wylie agency signed a deal to exclusively distribute e-books of its authors through Amazon. Want to read Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Saul Bellow in digital form?  Better get a Kindle. 
arnie Grossblatt

Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business - 0 views

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    Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"
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