Research Lens on Understanding Entrepreneurial Firms - Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (STVP)
Kathy Eisenhardt, co-director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program and professor in Management Science and Engineering, shares results from her research regarding successful ventures, addressing fundamental issues such as team building, market creation and financing.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Abu Ghraib, pictures, depravity, torture, political, US, interrogation, prison, rape, military, psychology, science, social, norms, deindividualization, anonymity, experiment, community, milgrim,
Human Rights and Political Reform in Contemporary China
Domestic policies, strategies, politics, government, communism, economics, developments, market change, housing, violence, public strife, modernization, international relations, trade, leadership, social unrest, superpowers, world economy, security, energ
Understanding, Measuring, and Coping with Risk: What We Know
risk, threat, nuclear, proliferation, terror, statistic, information, data, attack, analyze, weapon, source, population, public, policy, government, base, country, fear, invade, Taliban, Pakistan, United States, activity, involve, responsible, deterrence,
100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects
interplate, predict, hazard, develop, tsunami, construction, code, enforce, disaster, prepare, government, agency, international, physics, seismology, bay area, san Francisco, gps, hai-ch’eng, instrument, china, san andreas, India, japan, fault, short, te
100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects
interplate, predict, hazard, develop, tsunami, construction, code, enforce, disaster, prepare, government, agency, international, physics, seismology, bay area, san Francisco, gps, hai-ch’eng, instrument, china, san andreas, India, japan, fault, short, t
6. Developing the Good Citizen: Contemporary Political Campaigning
Technology, politics, social theory, organizing, Democratic party, voting machines, political consulting, web pages, broadcast, data technology, mobilization, fundraising, e-mail, MoveOn.org, social networking, blogosphere, netroots, web 2.0, volunteering
Context Aware Computing: Understanding and Responding to Human Intention (November 30, 2007)
Computer science, technology, artificial intelligence, AI, human interaction, computer system, robot, input, system task, user, response, counter intelligence, design intelligence, adaptive model, communication
Frontiers of the Future: Understanding Our Brain and Behavior
Neurology, neurological disorders, Autism, dyslexia, memory loss, neurobiology, nerve cells, sensory systems, genetics, genetic blueprint, guidance molecules, child’s developing brain, initiative on human health, brain wiring, childhood cataracts, nurture
Understanding Shakespeare's sonnets
In the year of the 400th anniversary of their publication Professors Stanley Wells, CBE, and Jonathan Bate talk to Paul Edmondson about the content and context of Shakespeare's collection of sonnets.
Understanding Childhood - Introduction
Professor Susan Bassnett introduces the panel and theme of Understanding Childhood.
Understanding the environment: Complexity and chaos
There is increasing recognition that the reductionist mindset that is currently dominating society, rooted in unlimited economic growth unperceptive to its social and environmental impact, cannot resolve the converging environmental, social and economic crises we now face. The primary aim of this unit is to encourage the shift away from reductionist and human centred thinking towards a holistic and ecological worldview.
Listen: Interdisicplinary project includes rising star in contemporary classical music
An interdisciplinary research project at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, has commissioned a piece of original music from award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. This fall the piece will be premiered and recorded by ALIAS, which includes musicians from the Blair School.
Contemporary views and reviews
What were the contemporary views of public houses and the social good, or ill, that they represented? How did establishments relate to the other institutions common to community life in the early modern period?
Understanding the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Tension between Iran and the international community is increasing with negotiations over Iran's nuclear capability at the heart of a growing diplomatic crisis. With the likely recommdendation that Iran be referred to the UN Security Council for supposed breaches of its nuclear obligations the next few weeks will be crucial in determining the outcomes of this latest confrontation.
The current crisis is the culmination of years of Iranian nuclear development and diplomatic efforts on the part of
Understanding Cities
A short introduction to this album.
LSE Summer School 2010 - Contemporary Developments in International Law and the Role of the Internat
LSE Summer School lecture.
7. Redesigning the Programming Experience: Understanding and Supporting Developers in the Age of the
computer science, technology, engineering, design thinking, human-computer interaction, programming, coding, programmers, code, Blueprint, html forms, user interface, internet, web, search engine, query, research, development













