On April 18, Barry Leonard was recognized as the 2013 NC State University College of Textiles Leader of the Year. The award recognizes a textile industry executive who has shown outstanding leadership qualities that have moved the textile ...
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Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. The study provides data ...
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USA Triathlon has added four new members to its 12-member board of directors, the organization announced Monday. "These four talented individuals possess a magnitude of experience in the worlds of business, governance and multi-sport, and ...
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Greg Brodsky, longtime leader of The Bike Cooperative, stepped aside Feb. 1 as outdoor industry veteran Scott Barrett became the new president of the retailer-owned cooperative. Barrett comes to The Bike Cooperative as a lifelong cycling ...
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Siemens AG is commissioning an independent academic study of the company's development from 1981 to 2011. The project is to be undertaken by the economic and company historian Hartmut Berghoff and the contemporary historian Cornelia Rauh. ...
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Steven Sinofsky Computerworld - Steven Sinofsky, the former Microsoft executive ousted as the head of its Windows group five weeks ago, yesterday said he would teach at the Harvard Business School this spring. Sinofsky, 47, announced the ...
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A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
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The National Retail Federation is pleased to announce that Amazon,Crocs,Kohl's and lululemon are the recipients of its prestigious annual awards.The award winners are selected each year by select members of the NRF Board who comprise its ...
Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment.One day in 1952,the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius.At some point during the run,a faulty ...
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Three out of four VC-backed start-ups fail,says Shikhar Ghosh a researcher from the Harvard Business School. "VCs bury their dead quietly","says Ghosh.The commonly acepted rule of thiumb for start-ups is that,out of ten,three or four fail ...
Kraft Foods has said the split of the company in two, creating a North American grocery company and a global snacks manufacturer, will take place in October. The establishment of US grocery business Kraft Foods Group and international ...
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Lighting Science Group,North America's largest LED bulb manufacturer,announced today that K.R.(Kaj)den Daas,a leading figure in the worldwide lighting industry,will be joining Company's board of directors. "I believe that Kaj's wealth of ...
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