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Cisco has announced a new routing system that it says is going to speed up the Internet in a big way. According to the company, Cisco CRS-3 — currently being tested by AT&T — is three times faster than its predecessor, which was introduced in 2004.

The company offers a few intriguing sound bites about the CRS-3 and what it enables:

- the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second

- every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously

- every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.

http://mashable.com/2010/03/09/cisco-crs-3, 9 March, 2010

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Focus on Higher Education in Europe 2010: The impact of the Bologna Process, 8 March 2010

About Eurydice

The Eurydice Network provides information on and analyses of European education systems and policies.
It consists of 35 national units based in all 31 countries participating in the EU's Lifelong Learning programme (EU Member States, EEA countries and Turkey) and is coordinated and managed by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels, which drafts its publications and databases.

The new government initiative “Gründerland Deutschland” (startup nation Germany) aims to increase the number of business startups. This is a good beginning. However, it should go even further, for it is not the number of startups that is crucial but their innovative strength and ability to succeed in the marketplace. 

The federal government has set up a new startup initiative “Gründerland Deutschland” to encourage more Germans to start a business or engage in other entrepreneurial activity. A large catalogue of measures ranging from PR campaigns to prolonging a public-private venture-capital fund shall boost entrepreneurial spirit...

Previous MBA-CSC related BizDeansTalk post of May, 2009

Some Industry Sectors Showing Strength 

January 12, 2010 - The MBA Career Services Council-a professional association of business school career management offices-released the findings of its Fall 2009 survey earlier today. The findings show that, as anticipated, the ongoing economic malaise continues to limit overall on-campus recruiting opportunities for new MBAs. However, despite decreased recruiting activity across several key sectors, the findings also show increasing MBA recruiting in other areas of the economy. These mixed results are reflected in the expectations of Career Services Directors, the majority of whom predict growth in total job opportunities in 2010. 

The survey findings show, at a summary level, that 79% of respondents report a decline in on-campus recruiting for full-time MBA jobs during Fall 2009. At the same time last year, this same percentage of respondents reported a decline during Fall 2008. 

In contrast, the findings also show that full-time MBA job postings may be rebounding; while 48% of respondents report a decline in these postings, this is an improvement from 70% of respondents in 2008. And more encouragingly, 34% of respondents reported an increase in full-time postings during Fall 2009. 

These increases in MBA recruiting activity are occurring across several sectors. Over 20% of respondents report increases in energy/petroleum, government, healthcare services, pharma/biotech, and high technology. Conversely, over 20% of respondents also report decreased recruiting activity in consulting, consumer products, commercial banking, diversified financial services, investment banking and brokerage, investment management, venture capital and private equity, manufacturing, and real estate. The changes to recruiting activity noted here are consistent with broader economic outcomes. 

With respect to the economy and job growth, respondents appear optimistic about a recovery, with 60% predicting an increase in overall market opportunities. Kip Harrell, President of the MBA Career Services Council and Associate Vice President of Professional Development and Career Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management, says, "All of us in the MBA Career Services offices at business schools across the world are hopeful. We know that graduate employment is a lagging economic indicator and as the economy picks up, so will MBA hiring."

The survey, conducted every Fall in November and December by the MBA Career Services Council, collects data from AACSB accredited business schools across the US and Europe. 

About the MBA Career Services Council

Founded in 1994, the MBA Career Services Council (MBA CSC) is a global professional association for individuals in the fields of graduate management career services and MBA corporate employers. There are more than 400 members representing a diverse group of more than 160 MBA programs, advanced degree business schools and corporations located around the world. The MBA CSC provides a direct link between MBA Career Services offices, corporate MBA recruiting professionals and the media. The MBA CSC sets MBA employment data reporting standards for business schools and monitors media surveys for compliance and survey interpretation. www.mbacsc.org

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Via Wired Gadget Lab, 4 March, 2010.

Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements...

About Popular Science by Bonnier Corp.

Founded in 1872, Popular Science is the world's largest science and technology magazine, with a circulation of 1.3 million and 6.7 million readers. Each month, Popular Science reports on the intersection of science and everyday life, delivering a look at the future now. It's the ultimate guide to what's new and what's next. The magazine is published in five languages and nine countries worldwide, and is the fifth-oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Popular Science is the winner of back-to-back National Magazine Awards, receiving the Ellie in General Excellence in 2004 and in the Magazine Section category in 2005.

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PWC, 13th annual global CEO survey, based on 1198 interviews with CEOs in 52 countries. For more info: click here.

• 79% of CEOs intend to increase their focus and investment on how they manage people through change, which includes redefining employees’ roles in the organisation.  They feel they need to change their strategies for managing talent.
• Three major human capital failures emerge:
  • existing reward models are broken
  • CEOs are unable to move talent around quickly
  • Employees lack the skills needed to operate and compete in the new emerging environment
• 41% of CEOs expect to increase their focus on training and development

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Managing performance of the current workforce is the highest HR priority in 2010.

On Cambridge University Press, December 2005. Alvarez & Svejenova

In many companies, two or three executives jointly hold the responsibilities at the top-from the charismatic CEO who relies on the operational expertise of a COO, to co-CEOs who trust in inter-personal bonds to achieve professional results. Their collaboration is essential if they are to address the dilemmas of the top job and the demands of today's corporate governance. Sharing Executive Power examines the behaviour of such duos, trios and small teams, what roles their members play and how their professional and inter-personal relationships bind their work together. It answers some critical questions regarding when and how such power sharing units form and break up, how they perform and why they endure. Understanding their dynamics helps improve the design and composition of corporate power structures. The book is essential reading for academics, graduates, MBAs, and executives interested in enhancing teamwork and cooperation at the top.

• An original and stimulating analysis of leadership structures and their implications • Case studies from the automobile, financial and creative sectors • Historical examples ranging from the Roman Empire to the White House

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"Introduction: This book is about leadership in context - not leadership that emerges solely from the qualities of the human character, but leadership that springs forth from an appreciation and understanding of one`s situation in the world. Economic, social, and political conditions change over time, and these changes require distinct leadership styles and approaches for success."

Brown, IE unveil joint M.B.A. program, March 2, 2010

PROVIDENCE – Brown University (Ivy League, founded in 1764) will team with Instituto de Empresa, an elite European business school, to launch an executive MBA program aimed at experienced business people in the spring of 2011...

12 articles, see Related İtems section.

Post from his blog of 25th February, 2010

Watson Wyatt, a human resources consultancy, does a large-scale annual survey looking at return on investment for communication strategies.

One section of this year’s report focused on Social Media as used by 328 organizations that collectively represent 5 million employees in various regions around the world. (Full demographics of those surveyed at the bottom)

First a summary chart of how Watson Wyatt concludes Social Media is best used in a company’s internal communications mix:

Watson Wyatt’s findings:

Highly effective communicators are making greater use of social media than their less- effective peers.

On average, however, usage is fast outpacing effectiveness..

Article of Forbes, 02.26.10, 06:00 AM EST

Business schools need to focus on bootstrapping, not only raising money from VCs.

...

In fact, unless you are teaching at Stanford or MIT, or a handful of institutions with similar access to the financial community, you better come to terms with the fact that your realistic path to grooming successful entrepreneurs is through bootstrapping. So don't mislead the students, don't set them up with unrealistic expectations.

Don't set them up for failure.

(P.S.

Ranking: The Top Angels in Tech 2010, BusinessWeek)

Using "Frank" as MSN buddy to talk about bad effects of drugs, in UK

Positive reinforcement reward by mobile phones and time in NYC, by The U.S. Department of Education