New Rules for a New Age: Creating an 'Economic Stimulus Agency' out of the FCC
Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach recently worked with the Obama administration's transition team on a review of the Federal Communications Commission and related technology and telecommunications issues. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, he says that advances in technology and the urgent need to restart the economy require the commission to rethink its role -- not just as a regulator, but as an agency that creates jobs and encourages investment.Author(s):
Orphaned Landscapes: Figurations and Disfigurations of Place in Precarious Times
‘To imagine other places that are sustainable, we need to know what our imagination is like…’ (Paul Carter, 2010 Ground Truthing)
In recent years a conjunction of technological, social, political and environmental processes have been distinctively shaping the ways persons relate to places. Among these we highlight three major influences: firstly, the proliferation of technologies that recast how we visualize and travel through and between places. Secondly, the global effects of environmen
The New Role of Risk Management: Rebuilding the Model
Risk managers armed with the most sophisticated quantitative tools available did not foresee the biggest development in a generation -- the systematic breakdown and global contagion of financial markets. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, John Drzik, president and CEO of the Oliver Wyman Group, Richard J. Herring, a finance professor at Wharton, and Francis X. Diebold, a Wharton professor of economics, finance and statistics, discussed how to build a more informed risk management model. All
Crackdown on Executive Pay: Too Much or Not Enough?
Last week, the Obama administration's "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg, announced that the government will impose caps on compensation for the 25 highest-paid executives at seven companies that received "exceptional assistance" through the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- including American International Group (AIG), Bank of America, Citigroup, Chrysler, Chrysler Financial, General Motors and GMAC. Under the new regulations, salaries will be reduced by an average of 90%, and total compensation (incl
'Badge' Value: Finding and Promoting Products That Inspire Customer Loyalty
Alex Panos and his colleagues at TSG Consumer Partners, a San Francisco-based investment fund, believe that consumers will always be interested in products that enhance their lives, even if it means paying more than they have in the past. That philosophy has brought impressive results for TSG primarily in the beauty, food and beverage areas. Panos, who joined the 23-year-old firm in 1998, spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about the company's strategy, why it favors family-owned businesses, where to f
A new career in the health service
In this Podcast, Professor Beasley talks about the importance of optimism in the ever-changing field of Nursing. She also stresses the need to take risks to further your career.
Professor Beasley addresses the Nursing graduating class of 2006.
How Entrepreneurs Can Create Effective Business Plans
When an entrepreneur has identified a potential business opportunity, the next step is developing a business plan for the new venture. What exactly should the new plan contain? How can the entrepreneur ensure it has the substance to find interest among would-be investors? In this installment of a series of podcasts for the Wharton-CERT Business Plan Competition, Wharton management professor Ian MacMillan explains that business plans must contain several crucial elements: They must articulate a m
Empty Pockets: What Does the Greek Debt Dilemma Mean for the Global Economy?
Fear is growing that Greece may default on a massive pile of debt, creating a ripple effect of problems throughout Europe and beyond. Following pressure from the European Union and the European Central Bank, the Greek government on March 3 announced a new round of austerity measures that include spending cuts and tax increases which critics fear will harm Greece's economy. Meanwhile, Wall Street banks are facing scrutiny for the complex financial instruments they used to allegedly disguise the c
Falling Prices, Foreclosures and Fear: What's Next for the Housing Market?
The U.S. housing market has been wobbly for several years, but it has shown some signs of perking up in recent months. The latest reports, however, indicate a setback, with median home prices dropping slightly and sales well below the already depressed levels of 2009. Yet a combination of low mortgage rates and apparent home-price bargains should still be drawing some buyers into the market. Knowledge@Wharton spoke with Wharton real estate professor Susan M. Wachter about the housing market's sl
27 Sep 2010: Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy
Emerging energy and climate policies in the United States are accelerating the pace of technological changes and prompting calls for alternative energy and stricter energy efficiency measures. These trends raise questions about the future demand for fossil fuels, such that some energy-producing nations are reluctant to invest heavily in the expansion of production capacity. The abundance of shale gas resources in North America could allow the United States to utilize more gas in its energy mix a
Jatropha: Kenya's biofuel potential Jatropha is an easily grown biofuel crop, and thousands of jatropha tree plantations are now springing up across Kenya.
3.6 How valuable have consensus conferences proved to be? From the two case studies just considered, certain factors seem critical for the success of lay input into decision making. First, both the choice of topic of the conference and its presentation is crucial. If the plant biotechnology conference had been billed as ‘genetic modification’ (as opposed to plant biotechnology), it might have had more resonance with the political and popular perceptions and hence had greater impact. Independence of the lay or citizens' panel is another key point
LESSON 30 (पाठ३० ) – body parts (शरीर का अंग) in Hindi (हिनà¥à
Do you know the Hindi names of your fingers and toes? In this episode you will learn the words to identify the major parts of the body. There are many situations where this knowledge is key.
Internet Scout Project
The Smithsonian Institution Department of Systematic Biology presents Flora of the Hawaiian Islands as part of a long-term project to "eventually provide the Internet community with the most complete reference on the flora of oceanic islands of the Pacific." Presently, available databases provide plant checklists and specimen type data, and will include additional information in the future. The site also contains a searchable image gallery and an electronic supplement to the Manual of the Flower
Tuesdays with Corey: More About Docker | Tuesdays With Corey Corey Sanders, Principal PM on the Azure Compute team brings us up to date on all the recent Azure IaaS and Docker news. As per Corey's comments: here is that awesome link to documentation about Azure VMs, Docker and Swarm courtesy of Ralph Squillace
The American Revolution: The Boston Tea Party
A good video that uses still images to help place the Tea Party in history as the unofficial start of the Revolution. Students should have a timeline to help understand the sequence of events as this video goes well beyond the Tea Party.
Learnovation Foresight Report
The foresight activity of Learnovation is framed within its goal of building a new vision
of technology enhanced learning in Europe, by means of a consensus process which
overcomes traditional borders of education and training and addresses learning in a
much broader perspective, centred on its role in innovation and lifelong learning
implementation, and in light of a policy advising perspective.
This activity has been carried out through two parallel processes, feeding one into the
other and pr
Workshop White Paper - Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cu
This paper reports on the aims, processes and outcomes of a workshop organised by Norbert Pachler (London Mobile Learning Group; www.londonmobilelearning.net) on technology-enhanced learning in the context of transformation as part of the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous in 2009.
The aim of workshop was to augment the work of the LMLG around its socio-cultural ecology, and to extend the interdisciplinary nature of its work through exposure to perspectives advanced by (TEL) researchers in cognate field
E-LEARNING FOR E-LEARNING:
REFLECTION ON TEACHER AND STUDENT EXPERIENCES
IN AN E-LEARNING COURSE
The paper discusses design and implementation issues of a university course on elearning,
delivered in mixed mode. Reflections on teacher and student experiences are
made and conclusions are drawn with regard to content, delivery mode, instructional
materials and online support.
