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During the 1930s, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced their way through nine movies, bringing a dose of elegance and sophistication to a country suffering through the Depression. The romance and song of such films as Top Hat, Swing Time and Follow the Fleet easily won the hearts of moviegoers, but the pairing of Astaire and Rogers was revolutionary in itself. The duo was among the first to integrate dance into a movie's storyline, turning the choreography into a vehicle for characters to express their emotions.
Both dancers had their start in vaudeville. Astaire was born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1899. He and his sister, Adele, moved with their mother to New York City in 1904, where they trained with Claude Alvienne in tap, ballroom and ballet. The two were a success on the vaudeville circuit, eventually making their Broadway debut in 1917. By all accounts, Adele was the star, with Astaire's technical perfection underscoring her charisma and charm. Over the next 15 years, they worked on the Great White Way and in London, in shows such as Funny Face and The Band Wagon. But in 1932, Adele got married, leaving her brother without a partner. Astaire decided it was time to give the movie business a try.
Astaire had been a huge success onstage, but this hardly assured his stardom on the silver screen. According to Hollywood legend, an early screen test was not promising: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little," was the assessment. With his wide forehead and jug ears, Astaire wasn't quite the dashing leading-man type, and in fact considered himself more of a character actor than a romantic lead. But in 1933 he managed to land a supporting role in the film Flying Down to Rio, a movie that also featured Rogers. The film would change both their careers forever.
Rogers was born Virginia McMath in Independence, Missouri, in 1911. After her parents divorced, Rogers ended up in Fort Worth, Texas, where her mother worked as a theater critic for the local paper. When Rogers was 14, she won the Texas State Charleston Championship. Accompanied by her mother, she spent the next four years on the vaudeville circuit and, at the age of 19, garnered the lead in the Broadway show Girl Crazy. Astaire was called in to help with the choreography, and he met and briefly dated Rogers at that time.
Girl Crazy made Rogers a star. She headed to Hollywood and appeared in a number of films, including 42nd Street, and in 1933, was an established celebrity when she agreed to appear in Flying Down to Rio.
The film featured Astaire and Rogers in only one major dance number, but their onscreen chemistry in "The Carioca" caught the attention of the studio heads. The two went on to make a total of nine films together, including The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936) and Carefree (1938). Rogers, with her Texas swagger and impish smile, brought to her roles an earthiness that contrasted nicely with Astaire's lithe body and long eyelashes. Katharine Hepburn once famously remarked, "He gives her class and she gives him sex."
Their ballroom dancing was remarkably fluid. The two would separate and come back together like drops of water-it was hard to tell where one body began and the other ended. …


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BERLIN Several law enforcement agencies conducted a sobriety checkpoint Friday on Route 302 in Barre.
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1D VMA Lookin' Spiffy by XxLovesTokioHotelxXWatch
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Lou i miss your old hair T_T i mean hes alright but the old one suited him..............same thing with Liam
I miss Liam and Louis' old hair.....to be completely honest, I don't really like Liam's hair now. It makes his head look a tad too big. Know what I mean?
i get exactly what you mean about Liam's hair, i liked it better before but i like both Louis old and new hair
niall's teeth always look fake
There all rockin' the hair do's in my opinion!!
Awesome!I like Louis in this pic,but I miss his old hair cut.
me too, i think he looks so nice in that suit and yeah true but people change right?
Except Lou looks highly gay in this picture. c: Nothing against gays, I fully ship Larry (;
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Barak 'incensed, but not surprised' by Goldstone report
In Wall Street Journal op-ed, defense minister rejects accusations Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.
Faulty methodology, politicization, and a failure to grasp the logic of self-defense led a United Nations-appointed judge to accuse Israel of war crimes during its three-week offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
In an op-ed piece which appeared in Friday editions of the Wall Street Journal, Barak assailed the controversial report compiled by a UN human rights commission led by South African war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
"Although I am incensed by the Goldstone Report, I must admit that I was not surprised," the defense minister wrote. "It is, more than anything else, a political statement - not a legal analysis."
Earlier this month, Goldstone's commission concluded that both Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed war crimes and acts that were likely crimes against humanity during the fighting in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
In a 547-page report, the mission said both Israeli and Palestinian authorities must engage in "good faith, independent roceedings" to investigate their own sides within six months, or the UN Security Council should refer the case to the International Criminal Court's prosecutor in The Hague.
Barak dismissed the findings as borne of a "zeal" and "obsession" to single out Israel for its actions in warding off persistent rocket attacks by Hamas that have plagued the western Negev.
"This shameful document was produced by the Human Rights Council, a body whose obsession with Israel has led it to produce more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined," the defense minister wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "By its lights, the evils of Israel far outweigh those of countries like Burma, Sudan and North Korea."
"In its blind zeal to demonize Israel, the council has produced a document that undermines every other democracy struggling to defend itself against terrorism," Barak wrote. "The message broadcast by this report to the new world order? Terrorism pays."
The defense minister said Israeli intelligence reports indicate that the Palestinian witnesses who spoke to Goldstone were in fact Hamas operatives whose testimony was used as the basis for the report's findings.
"When the Goldstone mission gathers testimony from local residents in Hamas-ruled Gaza, but forgets to ask them whether they happened to notice any armed Palestinians during the Israeli operation, or didn't realize that its impartially chosen witnesses happened to be known Hamas operatives according to Israeli intelligence, I begin to question the methodology of such a 'fact-finding' effort," Barak wrote.


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Tsunami alert in South Pacific after 7.2 earthquake
There were no immediate reports of damage.
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Nadine Dorries claimed that Britain could see a "tidal wave" of immigrants from Yugoslavia on live television yesterday evening.
Gatwick bosses found out that a damaging Christmas Eve flood was on the way only half an hour before it happened, the airport's chief executive revealed on Tuesday.
The landmark arches have been demolished by high tides and 70mph winds
Met Office says more heavy rain expected today and tomorrow
It has been dubbed a catastrophe in the making and even the potential trigger for mankind's most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. But it was hard to reconcile those fears with the banal sight of a murky pool of water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The most concentrated stretch of rubbish- dubbed the 'toxic monster' - is currently sitting between Hawaii and California
Kenyan Red Cross warns the death toll of 67 still does not match its list of 71 missing people
A court in Japan has awarded 270 million yen (£1.7m) to parents of four children killed when their nursery school bus carried them into the path of the March 2011 tsunami.
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Got back into biking 2 mos. ago after a forty year hiatus! Imagine!
Started with a hybrid bike, upgraded very quickly to yet another hybrid but a bit better. Am now looking at a true road bike.
Purpose for biking: loose weight. Going in a Caribbean cruise in November and I don't want to hurt anyone when I take my shirt off!! The weight is coming off - ever so slowly - but here's the "rub" (pardon the pun):
I can't find any combination of padded pants or a saddle that does not really cause pain in the arse after about thirty miles or so. The rest of me could ride all day if my hinny could hang in there.
I've now have a gel filled saddle and some really good padded shorts. But my tuckus just won't "callous" up!
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Nightmare of Silence - Mistress 9 - Revised by mishihimeWatch
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This is one of the most beloved villains from the Sailor Moon Series, Mistress 9. I've uploaded this picture before, but I was never really happy with the coloring and so so I decided to work on it a little more. This one turned out very surreal and dreamlike. Much better.
Very sexy
She looks awesome, the background and the effects on her hair really make this pic come alive! I'm a big Saturn/M9 fan so it's nice to see good quality fanart of them!
Thank you very much! To tell you the truth, this picture is a bit old so I was thinking about doing more fanart on the outer senshi. ^_^
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I typically use stock from a user named sakky, but your photos have such a sweet little sense of fantasy behind them that I find myself drawn to them more and more.
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Lovely! I like this version more, there is more of a contrast ^^
Yeaaaaa, I wanted the last piece to be really dark with small bits for dramatic lighting but I didn't execute it well. Lightening everything up seemed to work better in the end ^_^ Thanks for noticing.
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SECOND INFANTRY DIVISION, Korea -- Every Soldier in the Army joins for his or her own reasons. Some may join out of patriotism. Some may join to travel and gain job experience. Others may join for educational benefits. Many may not expect to serve past their initial term of enlistment.
Just like each Soldier joining the Army, many Soldiers currently serving choose to stay in for different reasons. There are several options of which Soldiers considering re-enlistment may be unaware.
"There are five basic re-enlistment options for Soldiers," said Master Sgt. William Keating, career counselor for 2nd Infantry Division Special Troops Battalion, who for over 10 years has been helping Soldiers stay in the Army.
The first option is regular Army re-enlistment, in which Soldiers can re-enlist for two to six years, said Keating. Using this option, Soldiers continue in their current career field.
The second option is current station stabilization, in which Soldiers are guaranteed up to 12 extra months at their current station upon re-enlistment, Keating said. For Soldiers serving overseas, the 12 extra months begin on the date they were to leave their station. An exception to this is made for Soldiers serving in Korea. They are allowed to re-enlist for two years with this option, which ordinarily comes with a three-year minimum re-enlistment, and are authorized up to six additional months from their DEROS, or date of estimated return from overseas, date.
"Most people here in Korea do not use this option," Keating said. "They use the Assignment Incentive Pay program, because that allows them an extra $300 or $400 a month."
The third choice Soldiers have is the Army re-training option. This is a three-to-four year re-enlistment in which qualified Soldiers can be re-classified into a new career field.
There is another re-enlistment program which is closely related to the Army re-training option. It is called the Bonus enlistment and re-training, or BEAR, program.
"Once we qualify you for re-training, we then see if we can lock you in for a school seat," Keating said. "If we can do that, then we will extend you for 24 months upon the completion of the school. Once you graduate, you can come back to us within 90 days, and then we will cancel the extension and re-enlist you. You will then receive a re-enlistment bonus."
Fourth is the overseas station-of-choice option. The minimum re-enlistment is four years in a long-tour area, such as Germany, and three years for a short-tour area, like Korea.
The last of the basic re-enlistment choices is the stateside station-of-choice option. This is a three to four year re-enlistment in which Soldiers can choose their next station within the continental U.S. Both assignment options have a specific time frame in which Soldiers' are qualified.
Each of the five basic re-enlistment options has slight variations in eligibility requirements for initial-term, mid-career and career Soldiers. As of Oct. 2006, all Soldiers who have 24 months or less remaining in their term of service meet the first and most important requirement for re-enlisting. This time period is referred to as the re-enlistment window.
Although there are so many re-enlistment options on the table, some Soldiers may still wonder what other benefits come with re-enlisting. Most prominent in Soldiers' minds is probably the re-enlistment bonus.
"There are three types of bonuses out there right now," Keating said. "The first is an MOS bonus, which depends on a Soldier's MOS. Then there is a location bonus, depending on where the Soldier is heading next. Lastly, there is a deployment bonus."
"There are a lot great benefits to staying in," said Sgt. 1st Class Michael Perry, career counselor for Division Special Troops Battalion. "A lot of the younger Soldiers do not realize the facilities that we have. Let's say you have a family, a wife and a couple of kids. The medical and dental benefits speak for themselves. There are also entitlements to help pay for additional costs such as housing."
Soldiers also have a high quality of life in the Army, Perry said.
"Where else in the world can you wake up and tell your boss, 'Hey I need four or five hours to go do something,' and not have to punch out' One of my favorite phrases is that we can offer guaranteed employment."
Not only do individuals benefit from Soldiers choosing to re-enlist, but the Army and other Soldiers benefit as well.
"We're maintaining a qualified force," Keating said. "We only allow those Soldiers who are qualified, in good character and good standing, to re-enlist. It also saves the Army the cost of spending more money for training a new Soldier."
"Most importantly, we're getting a Soldier who has been exposed to the Army life for a few years," Keating said. "We're able to take Soldiers from your basic, junior enlisted and set them on the path to becoming NCOs."
"By retaining Soldiers, the Army benefits from the experience that Soldier brings with them," Perry said. "Say you have a squad of infantrymen returning from Iraq who all decide to leave the Army. Now you have to take 10 brand new Soldiers from Fort Benning and rebuild the team."
"Retaining Soldiers build leadership and loyalty, not only to your unit but also to your country," Perry said.


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Rand Paul Supporters Respond to MoveOn Protester by Stomping on Her Head
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Provocative tea-party candidate Rand Paul has never been afraid to speak up against politics as usual in Washington. In the past, he's said he won't stand for government (not big government, government period). He won't stand for desegregated lunch counters. He won't stand for "Ponzi schemes" like Social Security. Taking a cue from their angry, Libertarian candidate, Rand Paul's supporters demonstrated outside the Kentucky senatorial debate last night that they won't stand for peaceful protests. MoveOn.org volunteer Lauren Valle showed up in a blond wig with a fake reward for Paul from "RepublicanCorp," to signal his ties to corporate special interests. Supporters grabbed the wig off her head, shoved her around, forced her body against the pavement, and held it in place while one man stomped on her head.
Clearly no one at the heated mob was worshiping to the god of Aqua Buddha. The video shows supporters yelling for the cops when they spotted Valle in their midst and chanting Rand Paul's name after the supporter stomps on her head with his sneaker. A lone voice of dissent off-camera says, "No, no, no, come on." Attorney General Mark Riddle, senior adviser for Democratic candidate Jack Conway's campaign, reached out to one of Valle's associates while she was in the hospital to make sure she was okay.
Paul's camp has yet to offer a statement about the assault. But if the candidate's performance at last night's debates gives any clue, expect evasiveness, ignoring direct questions, changing the subject, and heaping blame on the media.
Apparent Rand Paul Supporter Stomps On MoveOn Member's Head [HuffPo]
Rand Paul's final debate strategy: Play dumb [Salon]


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Top 5-Year CD Rate at Arizona Federal Credit Union
Arizona Federal Credit Union is one of the few remaining institutions still offering a 2.00% APY 5-year CD. Minimum deposit is $500 ($100 for IRA certificates). Its 4-year share certificate is also fairly competitive with a 1.50% APY. However, the shorter-term CDs have much lower rates. These rates are listed in the credit union's certificates rates page as of 8/30/2012.
One downside with Arizona Federal's 4-year and 5-year share certificates is a large early withdrawal penalty. It's equal to 720 days dividends. This is shown at the bottom of the rate table. That's almost 2 years of interest.
Credit union membership is open to those who live, work, worship or attend school in Maricopa or Pinal County, AZ. Please refer to the credit union's membership page for more details.
Arizona Federal Credit Union branches are located throughout the Phoenix metro area.
It's a sizable credit union with $1.38 billion in assets. The credit union has an overall health score of 4 stars (out of 5) with a Texas ratio of 10.79% (above average) based on March 2012 data. Please refer to our financial overview of Arizona Federal Credit Union for more details. The credit union is federally insured by the NCUA (Charter # 1747).
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The highest 5-year CD rate that's nationally available is 2.12% APY at the all-access credit union US Senate Federal Credit Union. This requires a $60K minimum deposit. The yield for deposits under $20K, the yield is 10 basis points lower.
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Bob Apodaca is not exactly Howard Beale, but he's getting there.
It's one thing for baseball experts to penalize Carlos Gonzalez in the National League MVP race because he plays half his games at Coors Field. It's quite another not to reward Ubaldo Jimenez in the Cy Young race for exactly the same reason.
It's almost enough to make you wonder whether living at sea level impairs brain function.
"That's the double standard," the Rockies pitching coach said Thursday. "They're trying to diminish what CarGo is doing, but they don't want to give the credit to Ubaldo for the tremendous season that he's having pitching here in Coors Field.
"To me it's a slap in the face to our players, saying, 'Well, it's because of the humidor, it's because of the ball.' They're not giving credit when credit is due. Point the finger at them when they're not doing their job. But give them credit when it's due."
As the days of summer dwindle down and the eastern experts handicap baseball's awards, you can count on two things:
Coors Field will be prominently mentioned in the MVP race, devaluing CarGo's numbers, though he's contending for the Triple Crown. And it will get no mention whatsoever in the Cy Young race. Instead, Jimenez's candidacy will be devalued by his failure to maintain the pace that had him at 15-1 at the all-star break.
So the Reds' Joey Votto and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols are favored over Gonzalez in the MVP race. Even if CarGo's numbers turn out to be better, the way the experts figure it, they don't really count.
And the Phillies' Roy Halladay, the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright and even the Braves' Tim Hudson are favored over Jimenez in the Cy Young race. Their ERAs are better, and Jimenez gets no allowance for pitching half his games in the park where offensive numbers are discounted because it's so easy to hit there.
While much is made of the Rockies' dramatic offensive splits — .303 at home, .228 on the road entering Thursday's game — their modest pitching splits get much less attention. The Rocks' home ERA is only a third of a run different.
Pitching half his games at Coors Field, Jimenez's ERA of 2.79 — 3.35 at Coors — ought to inspire awe in people who discount Gonzalez's big numbers because of the park, the altitude or both.
Ask Jason Hammel why the Rockies' pitching splits are not as dramatic as their hitting splits and he responds with one syllable: "Dac" — the players' nickname for the pitching coach, now in his eighth season. So I asked Apodaca what he's teaching.
"You can let this ballpark affect you," he replied. "Ask Mike Hampton. There are cases of it where visiting teams hate to come here, visiting pitchers hate to come here, because of what they can't do, instead of focusing on what you can do.
"When you play 81 games here and you have 15, 16 starts here, you'd better deal with the reality of what happens here. So you focus on things you can do. You start focusing on the negatives, you're going to get the negatives. I think that's the biggest thing — we don't worry about what we can't do.
"You can still sink it. Ubaldo has great movement here. (Aaron Cook) has great movement here. You can still throw the slider. It doesn't affect the changeup. It doesn't affect your command. What it really affects is the bigger breaking pitch, the Barry Zito curveball. It doesn't have the fangs that it has in San Francisco. It has a big break, but it doesn't have the fangs."
While national experts penalize Gonzalez for Coors Field, they make no allowance for the longer recovery periods for athletes at altitude, nor for the adjustment to sharper breaking pitches on the road at the end of every homestand, which helps to explain the dramatic batting average splits. If hitting at Coors improves the average, transitioning from Coors at the end of every homestand hurts it.
"They talk about the numbers being askew for Gonzalez," Apodaca said. "They're not here 81 games. They don't know the toll it takes on an athlete, especially a position player who plays every day, plays as hard as CarGo plays, plays defense as hard as he plays on offense. And it's only these guys looking in from the outside who are making these comments. They don't know the reality of playing here."
So don't be surprised when Gonzalez is penalized in MVP voting for hitting at Coors Field while Jimenez goes unrewarded in Cy Young voting for pitching there.
It may be nonsense, but it is expert nonsense.
Dave Krieger: 303-954-5297, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/DaveKrieger


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Last night was the first 2016 Presidential GOP Republican Prime Time Debate, featuring Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Scott Walker, and more. Watch it here.
He's part of one of the most famous political families in America but what is the group like away from the cameras? Get to know them here.
Bush, who met Bush when she was just a teenager in Mexico, has kept a low profile throughout her husband's political career. Get to know her here.
With Fox News announcing who is in and out of the prime-time debate, it's time to meet the runner-ups.
The August 6 debate, hosted by Fox News, however, will not be the only debate among the Republican primary candidates. The Republican National Committee has announced 13 debates and forums in its sanctioned list of debates, compared to the Democratic National Committee's list of just 6 debates.
How will the world's No.1 respond to this latest set back?
Fox News presenter Bill O'Reilly is alleged to have dragged ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy down a staircase by her neck, according to evidence heard during a bitter court custody battle.
The TV movie based on Bill O'Reilly's best seller broke rating records when it premiered on the National Geographic Channel on Palm Sunday. Here's all the details of where and when it will be screened over the Easter weekend.
She's hosting Fox News' New Year's Eve celebrations. If the ball doesn't drop promptly, she'll probably blame Obama.
Shep Smith of Fox News had a lot to say about the Ebola situation in the United States, telling people that flu is more dangerous than the African virus.


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Distance from Tulsa, OK to Alva, OK is 186Miles or 300 Km. You can get this distance about 2 hours 53 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane, you can get this distance about 50 mins .
A car with an average MPG will needs 8.61 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
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* Coordinates of Tulsa, OK is 36.1539761, -95.9927913 and coordinates of Alva, OK is 36.804931, -98.6664742
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Watch Live! Canelo vs. Khan Final Press Conference: Wednesday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT… Read Article
Hughie Fury added to Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko Card- - 5 comments
Undefeated heavyweight sensation Hughie Fury will appear in a featured bout on the undercard of the world heavyweight championship rematch between unified champion Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko Saturday, July 9 at the Manchester Arena.
The bout will take place in front of more than 21,000 fans and be seen by millions more around the world on various television outlets.… Read Article
Hearn says talks have begun for Fury-Joshua super-fight: "If Not November then 100 percent next spring or summer"- - 13 comments
It's an assured box-office smash and one of the biggest heavyweights fights in British boxing history, and promoter Eddie Hearn tells Sky Sports talks are already underway to make it happen: Tyson Fury, the world's number-one and linear heavyweight king, against Anthony Joshua, the IBF ruler. Both men have upcoming fights to win first – Fury with his must-win return with Wladimir Klitschko on July 9th, Joshua with the somewhat easier challenge of Dominic Breazeale … Read Article
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SHOWTIME Sports and Matchroom Boxing announced on Wednesday a multi-fight licensing agreement for Showtime Networks Inc., to be the exclusive U.S. television partner of undefeated heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua. The announcement was made today at the Hilton Syon Park outside London by Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager, SHOWTIME Sports and Eddie Hearn, President of Matchroom Sports. … Read Article
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Prior to Saturday night's super middleweight title fight between Badou Jack and Lucian Bute, Showtime's Jim Gray conducted a brief interview with former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. During this interview the now retired Mayweather mentioned having had discussions with CBS and Showtime about a possible comeback at some point in the foreseeable future. He indicated that talks surrounded big money mentioned nine figures. But Mayweather also said that he enjoyed being on the retired … Read Article
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Arriving at CDG 11:30 on a Monday and want to take TGV directly from CDG to Avignon.
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Woohoo - @busuu has been selected as one of the top apps by @GooglePlay in 2015. More to come in 2016! pic.twitter.com/45M2OWZdCo
— Bernhard Niesner (@bernardooo) December 5, 2015
Woohoo - @busuu has been selected as one of the top apps by @GooglePlay in 2015. More to come in 2016! pic.twitter.com/45M2OWZdCo
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The Kairos_Society (Wikipedia)
And it begins! Welcome to #KGS15 http://t.co/8QtxANsKh4
— The Kairos Society (@KairosSociety) October 12, 2015
Spearheading Japan's renewables revolution: http://t.co/wNkTP67PrL
— LondonBusinessSchool (@LBS) June 16, 2015
"We want to help shape the future of the energy industry in Japan, to change the world through renewable energy."http://t.co/loQ2wTBUie
— LondonBusinessSchool (@LBS) June 16, 2015
Japan's renewable energy sector has grown hugely in recent years - and alumnus Ken Isono is leading the field: http://t.co/4jVKqNxFbl— LondonBusinessSchool (@LBS) June 15, 2015
The business has come a long way in just four years. Isono was on the shortlist for both the 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Japan and EY job creation award, and runs one of the fastest growing companies in his sector.
By 2017 he plans on having developed 1,000 MW of renewable energy power plants. The firm is expanding as well, both into new energy sources, such as wind, hydro energy and biomass, and internationally.
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Feb 2014 qz.com/212775/the-amazon-of-india-is-not-flipkart-its-amazon/
April 10, 2015 blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/10/flipkarts-move-to-dump-mobile-site-could-hit-google/
My blog post about getting the XLRI Alumnus award http://t.co/z0V07uyxeN
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) November 29, 2014
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Unity Girl Dolls: auldontoyworld.com/unity_dolls
Apart from Nigeria, Auldon's toys are now sought after in countries like South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and some parts of Europe. Last year, Auldon launched the Unity Girl Dolls, a set of multi-cultural dolls clad in the traditional attires of Nigeria's major ethnic groups. It has been a runaway success and a tremendous hit among Nigerian parents and their daughters.
LBS alumnus, who founded a multi million dollar african toy company was featured on Forbes: http://t.co/q54Y3Z4Ogv http://t.co/JnUDah4H6Q
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Great post by @stevesi http://t.co/tGpW24Insc
— Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) October 24, 2014
Mumbai University beats London School of Economics in billionaire alumni list. read more: http://t.co/kVhdkaAY8M pic.twitter.com/LOoXRpWurj
— Business Today (@BT_India) October 25, 2014
...this year's Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census...
The University of Mumbai was ranked 9th on the list, which was topped by the University of Pennsylvania as the school had 25 billionaire undergraduate alumni.
The University of Mumbai has more number of billionaire alumni than MIT, NYU, University of Columbia and Duke University.
Harvard University was ranked second on the list with 22 billionaire undergraduate alumni followed by Yale University (20) in the third position. The University of Southern California, with 16 billionaire undergraduate alumni, and Princeton University, with 14, make the top five.
Sixteen out of the top 20 billionaire schools are in the United States.
#Fulbright U.S. Student @AnnieChor met H.M King Filipe @IIEglobal! @fpa #PrinceAsturiasAwards: http://t.co/J8WFDw9LN9 pic.twitter.com/fzbCRnDtUo
— Fulbright Programs (@FulbrightPrgrm) October 23, 2014
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Co-founder at insPeer, Founder and senior consultant at Ithaca Consulting Top Contributor
"We are very proud to contribute to the IE tradition of entrepreneurship. Inspeer, the first peer-to-peer insurance platform, co-founded by Louis de Broglie and Emmanuelle Mury, both IE alumni, is amongst the 5 runners-up for the Great Prizes of Innovation of the city of Paris. www.inspeer.me/finalistes-services-aux-particuliers/"
Nous avons le plaisir d'annoncer qu'Inspeer est finaliste des Grands Prix de l'Innovation de la ville de Paris 2014 dans la catégorie services aux particuliers. Plus de 460 candidatures ont été reçu...
Inspeer, a startup by two alumni, amongst the 5 runners-up for the Great Prizes of Innovation 2014 of Paris. http://t.co/TZGGYmm4Bt
— IE Alumni (@IEAlumni) October 20, 2014
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Levantando una serie A, CartoDB http://t.co/UqnhlK8YYt
— Miguel Arias (@mike_arias) September 10, 2014
Mapping Startup CartoDB Raises $8M To Aim At Being A Geospatial Standard http://t.co/wg3qzPJqXt by @mikebutcher— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 10, 2014
The @wef World Economic Forum uses CartoDB http://t.co/XR0dipaXtY pic.twitter.com/J4k8aRZrZe— CartoDB (@cartoDB) September 3, 2014
www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/pdf/an-economy-doing-half-its-job.pdf (40 pages)
Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013 – 14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
"Michael E. Porter Jan W. Rivkin with contributions from Joseph B. Fuller, Allen S. Grossman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Kevin W. Sharer"
Can the US compete internationally? Its companies can. Its workers cannot. HBS Study Raises Red Flags #USComp http://t.co/rGFV7uuLur
— Michael E. Porter (@MichaelEPorter) September 8, 2014
The report also showed a split between small businesses and larger businesses, with alumni from the former more pessimistic along almost every dimension surveyed.
+ September 9, 2014, Boston Globe, Harvard study finds 'troubling' divergence in US economy
Executive Summary (page 4)
In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly skilled individuals are prospering. But middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are small businesses. We argue that such a divergence is unsustainable, explore its root causes, and examine actions that might mitigate it. We ask in particular, how can we create a U.S. economy in which firms both thrive in global competition and lift the living standards of the average American? Four patterns that shed light on this question emerged from survey respondents' assessments of the U.S. business environment:
• In gauging the future of U.S. competitiveness, the survey respondents were pessimistic on balance. By a ratio of three to two, those who foresaw a decline in U.S. competitiveness in the next three years outnumbered those who predicted an improvement. Reflecting the divergence described above, respondents were much more hopeful about the future competitive success of America's firms than they were about the future pay of America's workers.
• Though pessimistic overall, respondents were less negative about the future of U.S. competitiveness than they were in prior surveys. This trend seems to reflect the cyclical rebound of the U.S. economy. Accordingly, respondents were more favorable this year in their assessments of every element of the U.S. business environment. Respondents saw relatively small gains, however, in areas that pose some of the nation's toughest challenges, including America's tax code, its K–12 education system, its political system, and its regulations.
• Overall, respondents saw weaknesses in those aspects of the U.S. business environment that drive the prospects of middle- and working-class citizens—for instance, the education system, the quality of workplace skills, and the effectiveness of the political system. And they saw strengths in aspects that influence company success, such as the quality of management, the vibrancy of capital markets, and firm access to innovation. This dichotomy is likely at the root of the divergence described above. • Compared to the typical respondent, alumni working in small businesses had more negative (or less positive) views of virtually every aspect of the U.S. business environment. This finding echoes growing evidence from other sources that small businesses are disadvantaged in America.
Beyond a general assessment of the U.S. business environment, the survey explored three areas of concern where smarter approaches might improve the prospects of the average American: the K–12 education system, workplace skills, and transportation infrastructure. In each of these areas, this report draws not only from the survey but also from wider HBS research efforts.
Centro Community Partners, located in Oakland, fosters socioeconomic change in communities by providing business advisory services and leadership development programs to underserved entrepreneurs that are needed to grow businesses and provide jobs.
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Earlier this year, Centro released a mobile app called the Centro Business Planning Tool, which people can use to create a business plan right on their smart phone. The app is available for Apple products (in English) and on Android (in English and Spanish).
To learn more about how Centro developed the app, check out "PhotoEssay: How We Made Our App in 7 Pictures"!
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Arturo A. Noriega
Founder & Executive Director
Arturo brings more than 17 years of work experience as a management consultant. Arturo specializes in economic development, strategy, governance, risk management, finance, and organizational change management. He has worked at Mission Energy, Moody's KMV, Barclays Global Investors, AON, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young. He has earned an MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership from Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Economics and a concentration in Finance from Haas School of Business from U.C. Berkeley.
Naldo Peliks (video @ 2min5secs)
Chief Operations Officer
Naldo is responsible for developing Centro's operational capacities, leading the organization's advisory services and overseeing product development. He brings 10 years of marketing and business strategy experience working with organizations in technology, banking, retail and education. He is also a founding member of Baobank, a microfinance initiative in Burkina Faso. Naldo has a BA from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid Spain.
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I was born in Nubia, Egypt and I have an MBA degree from IE Business School. I am a Founder Partner of the companies Destinia.com , Troovel , Onlinetravel and Globalclick which operate in the online sector. I am currently the CEO of the online travel agency Destinia.com.
"Hotel Near Me" The World's First Hotel Booking App for Google Glass! by Destinia http://t.co/4OuTC9YTmv English version.
— Amuda (@amuda) April 30, 2014
Qué suerte poder escuchar a @amuda de nuevo en @IEbusiness #gracias pic.twitter.com/vclRSo2Fif
— CarlosSaldana (@CarlosSaldana) January 31, 2014
Gracias @CarlosSaldana por darme la oportunidad de compartir nuestra historia de Destinia en el IE y mil gracias para los asistentes
— Amuda (@amuda) January 31, 2014
@aarbeloa17 Mil gracias por hacer feliz a los niños en Haiti de la ONG Ayitimoun Yo. pic.twitter.com/kwnpVDh8ut
— Amuda (@amuda) May 22, 2014
Well, there you have it: GMAC report concludes that: "five decades of alumni, 83 percent say b-school is essential" http://t.co/ip9Z88ymZZ
— Bob_Bruner (@Bob_Bruner) March 19, 2014
GMAC asked business school alumni from graduating classes in the past five decades (1959-2013) if their MBA or business master's degree was essential to obtaining employment and 83 percent said YES.
The new GMAC® 2014 Alumni Perspectives Survey Report is the debut of survey results based on direct collaboration with 132 business schools in 29 countries. The data in this report tell the employment stories of nearly 21,000 business school alumni, and offer feedback about their career progression and the value of their graduate management education.
Schools looking to use data to bolster their outreach efforts have the opportunity to connect this compelling proof from alumni with their own efforts. Survey findings about the value and satisfaction alumni gain from their graduate business education can be used in positioning and promoting unique program features (such as centers of innovation and entrepreneurship, or access to alumni mentors). In addition, the information can be applied across marketing and outreach channels to boost recruitment, fundraising, alumni relations, media interactions and more.
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November 2013, blog.busuu.com/are-women-better-language-learners/
11 languages in one! busuu's completely redesigned app is here :) read our blog to find out more http://t.co/joBeJXxOtL
— busuu (@busuu) January 6, 2014
@StartupGrindLD thanks for the fantastic evening @ full google campus sharing my key learnings from @busuu pic.twitter.com/YqfAZr9zbL
— Bernhard Niesner (@bernardooo) December 16, 2013
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Via Cass Bschool alumna Frances Coppola
RT @PieriaView: Advice for potential academic bloggers - by @sjwrenlewis http://t.co/glYKrUFQ0G
— Frances Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) January 1, 2014
Simon Wren-Lewis
I am an economics professor at Oxford University, and a fellow of Merton College. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists.
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Fin de la campagne de la Fondation HEC 112m€ levés en 5 ans, pas mal non? Bravo à toute l'équipe, c'est spectaculaire! @HECAlumni @HECParis
— LaurentAllard (@LaurentAllard) November 19, 2013
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The startup said it plans to use the funding to "accelerate" its efforts in the U.S., with plans to open an office in Silicon Valley this year, and also to step up its competitiveness worldwide. The app builder space is a relatively crowded one, but with mobile users' insatiable appetite for apps there's plenty of room for multiple players to try their hand at making it really easy for non-techies to get technical.
Mobincube is web based software where anyone can create their own mobile application (app) without any software programming knowledge whatsoever. The resulting apps can be used to obtain income, promote business, sell products and create them for third parties by selling app developer services to clients. The apps created using Mobincube are compatible with Android smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Blackberry. From a user perspective, the process of building an app with Mobincube is relatively simple, from...
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Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business Apple CEO and Fuqua Alum Tim Cook Talks Leadership at Duke
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke to students and alumni at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in April 2013. Cook earned his MBA from Fuqua and returned to the school for his 25th reunion. Cook talked about intuition, collaboration, ethics, breaking the rules, how to lead, and leaders who inspire him in conversations with Dean Bill Boulding.
(Apple's Tim Cook's delivers commencement speech at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, National Monitor June 3, 2013)
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ISB alumni, Dhimant Parekh and Anuradha Kedia making a positive impact through their venture,Better India,a news portal which carries inspiring stories and positive news.
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The free Stocard app puts all your loyalty cards into one app on your phone, Downloads:(iPhone / Android).
www.stocardapp.com, @stocardUK
IE alumni news, IE ALUMNO LAUNCHES SUCCESSFUL RETAIL LOYALTY APP IN SPAIN – STOCARD, May 6, 2013
Are you tired of the mess in your wallet overfilled with loyalty cards and coupons? – The free Stocard app collects all loyalty cards on your smartphone and is now available on the Spanish app store. Providing users with personalized offers and coupons, Stocard creates a unique communication channel, through which offline retailers can reach young mobile customers. Moritz Heck joined Stocard after completing his dual degree at IE Business School last December. He is convinced that the Stocard app has the potential to change the offline shopping experience. Working as CFO & Head of Business Development he can put the entrepreneurial knowledge into practice, which he acquired during his MBA and Master in Finance at IE Business School.
The Stocard app has already replaced about four million plastic loyalty cards for more than one million users in several countries. Now it also puts Spanish customers' wallets on a diet. Stocard currently ranks 1st in the Spanish app store – just a few days after its launch. "Smartphones are the future. They can completely replace all loyalty cards with the free Stocard app for iPhone and Android", says David Handlos, CEO and founder of Stocard.
Stocard is very easy to use: Simply scan your loyalty card with your smartphone's camera. The app then creates a digital version of the card on your phone. Stocard already supports 100 default loyalty cards – from Club Vips, over El Corte Ingles to Shell Clubsmart. If a rare card is not on the list, you can type in the store's name by hand and easily add the desired card. Whenever you want to use your loyalty card, just show your phone with the digital copy and receive discounts and rewards, just as you would with the plastic card.
In May Moritz will be able to put his IE experience into action, when he will pitch Stocard at the biannual IE Venture Days in Madrid. Stocard has been announced as one of the ten finalists presenting in front of VCs from across the globe. This will be an excellent opportunity to find potential international partners for Stocard's future expansion in Europe and beyond.
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blog.mobincube.com "Ten things you can do to make money from mobile apps", February 28, 2013
5 ways to make money with mobincube
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Jose Ferreira (Wikpedia), Founder and CEO, MBA Harvard Business School 1997
Knewton COO, David Liu, @dliu8, (Columbia, MBA) at Georgetown's inaugural Innovation Summit, April 2012
Businessweek, 27 September, 2012
Each week Bloomberg Businessweek brings you an update on how MBA alumni from top business schools are making news—the good, the bad, and the ugly. This week, graduates from Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, and Cornell were among those making headlines.
CNBC September 14, 2012, "Euro Zone Epicenter of 'Worst Crisis Since WWII': Trichet"
The euro zone's debt crisis is just the center of an "adjustment" which is affecting all advanced economies, former European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet told CNBC.
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Jean-Claude Trichet
"The Europeans have a special responsibility because we are the epicenter of the worst crisis since World War II. And that, of course, calls for highly responsible decisions," he said.
All the advanced economies are undergoing their first major adjustment since the Second World War, according to Trichet.
"When you look with historical credit at what has happened since 2007, it was the start of the adjustment of the advanced economy. We have to understand-- it's our turn. We cannot ask the rest of the world to finance us eternally if we spend more than we earn. As simple as that," he said.
"We paid quite a high price for a dominant vision, which was too much benign neglect before the start of the crisis."...
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It was only a matter of time before a prominent business school decided to do its own version of Facebook to better connect alumni around the world. Not surprisingly, the school that will launch its Facebook-like network is Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business.
Next month, the school will take the wraps off of an impressive and innovative effort to use a private social network to more effectively link its 9,100 alumni—already the most loyal and generous of any business school in the world—with each other as well as the Tuck's faculty and current students...
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Harvard Business School Alumni news
Wikipedia "Knowledge Is Power Program"
www.kipp.org (partner with the Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral program, Ed.L.D.)
...The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has joined forces with Dell to put computers into the hands of promising young students who might not otherwise have access them. ..
Since the project's launch in October 2004, more than a dozen HBSAAA volunteers have dedicated several hours every other Saturday to serve as mentors to eighteen middle-school students from the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Academy, an innovative arts-focused charter school in the South Bronx...
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BEIJING / SHANGHAI - China is luring more foreign job seekers as its economy shines amid the global slowdown.
Ian Hoorneman, a Harvard Business School MBA holder from the United States, came to Beijing in 2009 and is now a counselor and coordinator for international affairs in Beijing Royal School...
New York Times, December 4, 2011
LONDON — It always pays to do your homework. And as Jeremy Bedzow, an M.B.A. student at the IE University in Madrid, can attest, in business school it often pays to volunteer — especially if you are looking for rewards that go beyond the bottom line.
Working with a team of IE students in Madrid, Mr. Bedzow helped Microsoft to develop a model program to provide training in information technology as well as the soft skills required to function inside the corporate world.
Known as ITCAN Academy, a pun on the Arabic word for perfection, itqan, the course recruited 100 university students, all of whom had to be Saudi nationals...
"One of our objectives at IE is to educate global citizens," Mr. Íñiguez (Dean) said. "We try to instill civic virtue through the whole curriculum. Instead of having a module on ethics, we believe every course, every subject, every professor, should address these issues."..
"That diversity also needs to be part of the learning process," Mr. Íñiguez said. "We need to get beyond gender, or the number of passports in the class, and make sure our graduates are genuinely comfortable with different views and different values. We need to help students get rid of their arrogance."
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Jörg Asmussen, originally from Germany, came to Italy to attend the SDA Bocconi Master in Business Administration taught in English during 1991-1992. He will take office on the European Central Bank Board on 1 January 2012.
The European Council has recently officially named the German national Jörg Asmussen, an alumnus of the SDA Bocconi MBA, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), substituting the resigning Jürgen Stark. Asmussen will take office on 1 January 2012. Jörg Asmussen attended the English version of the SDA Bocconi MBA during the 1991-1992 academic year.
The Executive Board of the ECB, made up of the President and Vice President of the Bank and 4 other members, has the responsibility of "preparing Governing Council meetings," says the ECB website, in addition to "implementing monetary policy for the euro area in accordance with the guidelines specified and decisions taken by the Governing Council and giving the necessary instructions to the euro area NCBs, managing the day-to-day business of the ECB and exercising certain powers delegated to it by the Governing Council."
Professor Yu Yongding on Project Syndicate.
Yu Yongding, currently President of the China Society of World Economics, is a former member of the monetary policy committee of the Peoples' Bank of China and former Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economics and Politics.
Professor David Daokui Li on Wikipedia
David Daokui Li (Chinese: 李稻葵; pinyin: Lǐ Dàokúi) is a Chinese economist economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics. He currently teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy....He is a member of the 1985 inaugural class of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM)..
Li Daokui is a part of a trio to replace Fan Gang, as academic members to the central bank's monetary policy committee (PBOC Monetary Policy Committee)...
"China could play key role in EU rescue", Financial Times, October 27, 2011.
"It is in China's long-term and intrinsic interest to help Europe because they are our biggest trading partner but the chief concern of the Chinese government is how to explain this decision to our own people," said Professor Li.
Article of Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2011. Via Melissa Korn @BizEdWSJ
www.jac-conference.org/jac/, Sept 30, 2011
"JAC Conference Brings Together CEOS, Deans and MBA Alumni From Top Business Schools", BusinessBecause
We just got back from the 2011 Joint Alumni Conference (JAC) in Zurich and thought we'd share some of the highlights. Set at the superb Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, nestled in woodland with blue-sky views of the lake, the conference attracted an impressive array of speakers and several hundred MBA alumni from the world's top business schools...
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- The CarbonNeutral Company (Wikipedia) is a global provider of carbon reduction solutions. Founded in 1997, the company has been one of the first providers of voluntary carbon offset credits in the world.
- The World Bank's "State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2011" (PDF, 78 pages)
- Santander gets CarbonNeutral® certification for the head office
CEIBS "Becomes 1st Business School in Asia to Achieve "Carbon Neutral" Status"
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MIT World, February 18, 2009
Running Time: 0:55:00
...This type of innovative leadership, says Maceda, could "apply broadly to most service-based organizations who want to make people the heart of a sustainable, competitive advantage, and to translate better products that meet clients needs better." Such an organizational model holds true even or especially during times of crisis. "If you believe you have a strong competitive advantage, usually during times of crisis you can harness that and win."...
business today india, September 18, 2011
The country head of HSBC was the first woman to enter the male bastion of investment banking
...The list of Kidwai's firsts is staggering: she was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School, or HBS; the first woman to be hired by PriceWaterhouse in India; the first woman to lead a foreign bank in India. Kidwai says she had to work "very hard" to find her space among the men...
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Article of September 12, 2011 of Francesca Di Meglio
The newest crop of writers includes nontraditional candidates—a journalist, a pollster, and a Google "jack of all trades"—all yearning to make their mark
The MBA Journals, which challenge incoming MBA students to share their business school journey with Bloomberg Businessweek readers, have become a rite of passage of sorts. Many MBA applicants read the journals in hopes of discovering what a typical day will be like on a particular campus, how they'll ever find an internship or full-time job, and what kind of social life they can expect...
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Article of The Telegraph, 26 Jun 2010 (Wikipedia Entry of Sir Ronald Cohen)
The man who started the private equity industry 40 years ago, is plotting to harness entrepreneurship to act as an agent for social change.
...has been back to Harvard and a clutch of other top universities to tell the students about the next big thing in the business world – social finance...
"We want to do the same thing for social entrepreneurship. We want to connect the capital markets to the social sector.
"I think it is going to be similarly powerful because the impact of the recent crisis on peoples consciousness has emphasised the importance of dealing with the social consequences of the [capitalist] system."
Sir Ronald is fervent in his belief that this is more than just the latest business fad, but a crunch-point moment for the entire Western market-based system.
"It is not enough to increase the standard of living at the high end. It is right at the same time to worry about those who are left behind," he says.
"I think societies everywhere will come to the conclusion that an important part of the capitalist system is having a powerful social sector to address social issues, because government doesn't have the resources."
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Article of Businessweek, July 21, 2011
A USC Marshall entrepreneur keeps the family sneaker tradition alive by launching a line of basketball shoes banned by the NBA...
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The Tuck School of Business Annual Giving campaign broke a world record when it reached a 70.5 percent participation rate in its 2011 campaign, according to a Tuck press release. Participation in Tuck Annual Giving has historically been higher in comparison to other business schools in the United States and around the world...
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"Looking back, Georgetown was the perfect fit for me. I wanted an urban school, with an international focus and a globally known brand name"
I started business school at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business (McDonough Full-Time MBA Profile) with panic attacks. Once I met my classmates (incredibly accomplished people who were arriving from all walks of life and all corners of the world) and realized the full magnitude of our course load (four new classes every seven weeks, plus four residencies), I thought that a person like me (background in education, no real business experience) could never make it...
By John A. Byrne, Poets & Quants.
One of the most valuable assets of a top-ranked business school is its alumni network. It's a major consideration by applicants in choosing an MBA program, and it's a significant sign of a school's true brand strength in the marketplace.
But it's also something that is hard to measure. There is no available metric that will let you know how often the alumni network at a school gets current students internships or jobs. There is no measurement to find out how often an alum returns the call of a student for advice, mentorship, or networking.
There is, however, one very telling number to judge the strength of a school's alumni network: the percentage of alumni who give money to a school every year. As Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, puts it, a school's annual alumni giving rate is "a long-term satisfaction index."
Alumni wouldn't be handing over money to a school especially if they felt no affinity toward the institution or were unsatisfied with the MBA experience they received. So high alumni giving rates might well be the single best proxy to assess both the satisfaction of MBAs with an institution as well as the ultimate value of the network a graduate inherits at commencement.
Which business schools do exceptionally well on this index? Year in and year out, the Tuck School beats every other institution in the world when it comes to annual alumni giving. Last year, for example, some 67% of Tuck's 8,976 living MBAs wrote checks to the school. That is an extraordinary level of support at a time when the average rate of giving for a top-20 business school is roughly 20%.
"That is like the four-minute mile," boasts Danos. "The appreciation for Tuck grows as our graduates go out and speak to others about their experiences. That long-term satisfaction has to be high given the unheard of rate of giving. I do think it's a long-term endorsement of the general way we educate."
This year, Tuck will reach a new milestone, eclipsing the highest participation rate in its history. With a May 31st deadline approaching for its annual giving campaign, more than 68% of its alums have already send in their checks, beating the 67.5% peak reached in 2008. Danos is hopeful that the school might very well hit 70% this year.
And after Tuck? It's Yale University's School of Management, which last year saw 46% of its MBA alums reach into their pockets to donate money to the school; the University of Virginia's Darden School, the beneficiary of a 43% alumni giving rate last year, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which reported a 41% participation rate by MBA alums....
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By Local Tech Wire, January 18, 2011
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Timothy Cook, who earned his master's in business at Duke University's Fuqua School, is taking over day-to-day operations at Apple..


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I drew this when I saw the new Queens anthology cover.
Nunnally and Anya's outfits are too cute...!
Nunnally and Anya's outfits are too cute...!
i love it it is so pretty and thank you because that drawing has inspired me a lot in my work. check my work out!!
I think I'm gonna cry...*sniff*
... This is too cute for words!
... This is too cute for words!
Very good! The colors you used made them so lovely.
girls are so cute and pretty. great job
Why on earth do people think this is art! The pink haired one is so skinny and the blonde has so much hair it covers the pink haired one!
You have HORRIBLE drawing skills!
You have HORRIBLE drawing skills!
in defense of the artist...WHOA!!! you know we don't go to your gallery and slam your art for the characters being drawn so they have the same body type as in the series. Anya(pink hair) is that thin and Nunnally(blonde)has that much hair.
you have HORRIBLE insult skills =]
F Off.
oh yea cuz thats really telling me off U_U
Idiot in the house!
you dont need to introduce yourself
already thru with the "f" part.. not sure what you do with "off".
im pretty sure you would know
im pretty sure you would know
S-SO.. CUTE... -drool-
Loving the lineart X3 it's got a sketchy feeling loves it! ^.^ And the colouring too! great job
awwww!! anya's outfit iz soooo qttt!!!! (kawaiii!!! ><
awwwww o~o<33
Just so kawaii! -He snuggles them both.- >w<
ow how cute Q.Q
love this girls <3
love this girls <3
they are so lovely >w<
Nunnally is always very cute
Great pic!
Great pic!
Beautiful and adorable~!! ^_^
She always looks all emo and stuff. Never smiles.
I love those two girls, so cute!!!
I like Anya!! The colors are perfect!
it is so cute =3
in short, they're "lolis"
queen anthology's cover *¬* it was so cute and somehow so nosebleeding
I love your coloring and their outfits are adorable!
I love Anya in this picture so much!
You are very skilled
You are very skilled
;___; i want more like thiis~ pleaase~
;___; i want more like thiis~ pleaase~
So cute! I think I might die.
so moeeeeeeeeeee
i can die!!!1
i can die!!!1
..indeed CUTE girls.
wonderful job~ ^^
wonderful job~ ^^
This is adorable!
waaa I love the softness to this!! and I always love the way you draw hands ;A; beautiful work Kl~chu o3o
very very cute though!
very very cute though!
So cute!!!
Amazing job!!!
I like the colours!!!
Amazing job!!!
I like the colours!!!
the roses r so pretty and it adds a nice effect to the pic~~
so pretty~~~~
ur so skilled with anatomy~
so pretty~~~~
ur so skilled with anatomy~
so kute!!
like like it very much!!!!
like like it very much!!!!
I am beautiful with pink.
Blue eyes of Nunnally shine.
Blue eyes of Nunnally shine.
waahh!! it's look beautiful!!
it's so cute! X3