February 8, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
Anthony Atala asks, “Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?” His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that — engineering tissues and whole organs (bladders and, soon, kidneys) using smart bio-materials and cutting-edge techniques.
Watch his amazing short video on TED MED
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February 2, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
The Great Recession has made CEOs rethink strategic planning. Walt Shill, head of the North American management consulting practice for Accenture believes that: “Strategy, as we knew it, is dead…Corporate clients decided that increased flexibility and accelerated decision making are much more important than simply predicting the future.”
In my my latest presentation Brave New [...]
January 29, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
In this months Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin writes that “modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in 1976. Its governing premise is that [...]
January 29, 2010 Graeme Codrington
This weekend, Sky TV in the UK will become the first to broadcast a live sports event in 3-d. This is a preview of regular channel that will be launched by Sky in April. It will be available at no extra cost to anyone with an HD box.
Read the press release [...]
And so, you’re sitting around one day as a broke 21yr old student pondering how you’ll pay for your university tuition fees. It’s really simple – host an advertising site where you sell space. Alex Tew is the brains behind www.milliondollarhomepage.com. At a premium of $1 per pixel, he is aiming to sell $1 million worth by the end of the year – he’s already $889,000 down the road and has only been going since September. Nice quick buck!
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