Air Flow Dryer

Free Bike Lending Library

A student-led bike library opened Sept. 24 at the University of Denver (DU) offering high-tech bikes on loan for free, and a glimpse of the citywide bike sharing program that gets rolling next spring. The free DU lending library is open to all students, faculty and staff using the same bikes that will dot the city landscape in early 2010.

Big Green Initiatives - IBM

Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened a new data center designed to support new compute models like cloud computing, to help clients from around the world operate smarter businesses, organizations and cities. The new data center reduces technology infrastructure costs and complexity for clients while improving quality and speeding the deployment of services – using only half the energy required of a similar facility its size. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet.

Water Tank Waltz

Redwood Water Tank Repurposed into 20 Green Projects

AirStash Demo on iPhone

Plug-in Electric Porsche 918 Spyder

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer tours Ioxus

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer toured Ioxus on February 15, 2010 to discuss future growth. Schumer secured $1,427,250 used to save jobs and expand our workforce.

Water as alternative fuel - Fox News Report

Solar-Powered Water Purifier

WWF has selected Solvatten, a solar-powered water purifier, as a 'Climate Solver', recognizing this Swedish invention's potential to reduce green-house gas emissions. Given the number of people worldwide currently treating their water by boiling with firewood, WWF estimates that, with widespread distribution, Solvatten could be reducing CO2 emissions by 26 million tonnes per year by 2020. The use of Solvatten can reduce dependence on firewood and other fuels, since it uses the sun's rays.

21st Century Business featuring Azure Dynamics

When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis

When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis
The CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners discusses the imperative for rethinking values in the wake of the economic downturn.

JANUARY 2010

At this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the topic of corporate ethics and personal values will take on marquee status as one of the six highlighted pillars of the 2010 meeting. Reverend Jim Wallis—author, CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners, and Davos veteran—has helped drive the change that moved the issue of values to the core of this year’s discussions. In this video interview, Wallis reflects on the opportunity that the crisis affords for reestablishing ethics in our lives and in the marketplace. He also shares some of his Davos experiences and notes how his conversations with CEOs there about ethics in business helped set the stage for his latest book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street—A Moral Compass for the New Economy. McKinsey Publishing’s Rik Kirkland spoke with Wallis in Washington, DC.

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto
Tom Albanese explains how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations to a future when climate change may make the world’s dry parts drier and wet parts wetter.

JANUARY 2010

Water management has become a strategic issue for Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining groups, whose operations tend to be located in areas that are either arid or plagued by torrential rains. In this video interview, CEO Tom Albanese discusses the economics of water, the role of climate change, and how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations and seeking to make water management a source of advantage. Bill Javetski, an editor with the McKinsey Publishing group, conducted the interview with Tom Albanese in Durham, North Carolina.

Reshaping business education in a new era

Reshaping business education in a new era
Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.

JANUARY 2010

Source: Strategy Practice

This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Watch the video, then share your thoughts by commenting below.

With rising interest in corporate social responsibility and increasing doubt in the sanctity of institutions, an evolving breed of MBA student is surveying the business landscape with a more discerning eye and demanding a new type of education. One person who feels this shift acutely is Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Sheppard has a prime view of this maelstrom of forces—changing expectations from students, different contours of global business, new management issues for educational institutions—and a unique perspective on what these portend for business students and business schools alike. He spoke in New York with McKinsey Quarterly editor Allen Webb about where MBA education stands in the wake of the financial crisis, and where he thinks it’s headed.

Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo

Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.)

Dr. Jane Hightower - Diagnosis: Mercury Commonwealth Club

The Cove

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Glj06QX32qg/

UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php?group=Distinguished+Innovator+Lecture+Series


webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events


UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.

DUhatch Student Business Incubator

CERC: Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke
Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC) views entrepreneurship in its most broad context, as the realization of vision without regard to the resources initially available. This includes but is not limited to: social, commercial, and technological innovation, as well as efforts that seek to innovate within institutions through new programs, projects, and grants

CERC fosters entrepreneurship by bringing people, ideas and resources together and serves as a portal to Duke research, education and commercialization programs.

CERC is a collaborative effort involving schools across campus and their programs, including the Medical School, Pratt School of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Fuqua School of Business as well as the Office of the Provost, the Office of Licensing and Ventures and the Fuqua Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.






DUhatch connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and industry, giving them office space, and facilitating business development to help solve the myriad problems a fledgling venture faces.

Multiply your music. Magnify your sound.

Multiply your music. Magnify your sound.

Play a world of music—from iTunes and the Internet—all over the house..

A Video on Pen Computing

http://www.prendismo.com/viewclip.cfm?clipId=1131


Jeff Hawkins Biography
Chairman, Handspring
Jeff Hawkins - Lecture - Entrepreneurship, Palm Computing and Handspring