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Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, suggests strategies to retain good people. Springer suggests that the most important strategy is to help team members feel excited about their career path, whatever that might be. In addition, Springer has found that smaller rewards throughout the year for excellent work have a large effect in helping employees feel appreciated and want to stay with the company.
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William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, asserts that although individuals are important, teams are the central unit of entrepreneurial success. Indeed, Sahlman argues that the reason why many companies succeed is because of the team, not any particular individual, and so entrepreneurs should think carefully about breaking up teams as well as the effect that replacing an individual has on a team.
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Smith believes that since their monetary values are not large in comparison to the size of the education industry, investments must be leveraged to get maximum effect. New School's helps to leverage their investments by bringing together a partner group that includes venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and educators, who each bring different strengths and views to the venture.
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In this lecture Professor Sylvia Ceyer moves on from the wavelike properties of light, to the particle-like nature of light. To do so she covers the photoelectric effect in detail, discussing threshold frequency and kinetic energy vs. frequency. Planck's constant is discussed. The lectures concludes with a discussion of photon momentum and its relation to wavelength.
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Abortion is very common both worldwide and in the US. There is one abortion for every 3.2 live births. In places where contraception is not used, abortion is used as birth control. Neither legal nor religious proscriptions have a strong effect on abortion rates. In countries where abortion is illegal, maternal death rates are extraordinarily high. Legal, medically done abortions are safer than getting pregnant. Psychological responses...more
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(February 20, 2009) Michal Migurski and Tom Carden, both of Stamen Design, discuss the online maps their studio has put out, originating from Oakland Crimespotting. They present an overview of the project and its effect on our work, our thoughts on open source mapping code and wiki-style community maps.
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Professor Sylvia Ceyer introduces transition metals and the formation of coordination complexes. The Chelate effect is defined and the difference between geometric isomers and optical isomer (enantiomers) is discussed. The discussion concludes with d orbitals and d-electron counting in coordination complexes.
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Jung talks about the importance of empowering an entrepreneur's target audience in acquiring customers. Viral marketing is one of the ways to acquire and build loyal customers at a low cost, he adds.
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Waldorf believes it is important to be self directed and follow one's passion. Assessing risk, having success in past endeavors, and finding good people can mitigate the effect of following the path less traveled.
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Richardson explains the rigorous reporting expectations created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and their effect on a company.
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Fractional reserve banking and the multiplier effect. Introduction to the money supply.
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How lower lending standards led to housing price inflation.
