Population Growth
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In East and South Asia there are many more boys than girls. Previously, this resulted from female infanticide, now it is sex-selective abortion. In those cultures, girls generally marry out of the family as teenagers and thus provide no benefit for the family that raised them. Bangla Desh is agriculturally very rich, but its population is so dense that per capita income is one of the lowest in Asia. Despite the poverty, an excellent...more
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Rick Wallace shares his strategy for hiring and retaining talented employees. He claims that money is important, but the primary motivators for employees at KLA-Tencor are personal growth and fairness in rewards and recognition.
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Hawkins discusses the importance of having a planned hiring process while starting any new business. He goes on to say that the people who have not only seen the positives and the growth of the company, but have also lived through the rough and tough times with the company, make the best entrepreneurs.
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Thompson talks about how Symantec was looking at changing from a software business to a content business. He shares the history about the marriage between Symantec and other companies that they have acquired over the years.
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Though recent market research suggests that the PDA industry may be finished growing, Wirt questions this conclusion. He points out that conventional wisdom is often wrong. It is not the market researchers that create the future, but the entrepreneurs.
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The economic concept of game theory can be readily applied to evolution and behavior. By analyzing encounters between organisms as a mathematical "game," important information such as fitness payoffs and the proportions of "strategies" played by each group within a population can be inferred. While oftentimes these games are too simplified to apply directly to actual examples in nature, they are still useful models that help convey...more
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Valuation examples - Implied growth rate & Target prices - Financial service firms: pre and post crisis - Valuing the S&P 500 - Negative FCFE and dilution effects
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Lynn Reedy, senior vice president of product, development and architecture at eBay, sets the stage for the talk about eBay, its history, leadership and how to be successful at a high growth company.
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Bellas talks about two Foundry companies which utilize new surgical procedures. The first is Thermage, which uses a procedure that stimulates new collagen growth. The second is Xstent, which works with stent implants.
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Reaction norms depict the range of phenotypes a single genotype can produce, depending on the environment. Reaction norms must fit within an organism's phylogenetic constraints. They can differ for different individuals within a population, but some traits differ very little based on the environment; some do not differ at all.
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Moore explains the concept of fractalization of markets when markets get out of the growth phase.
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Originally, altruism and self-sacrifice were thought to be incompatible with natural selection, even by Darwin. Now we have several explanations for how altruism can increase an individual's fitness. One is kin selection, or the idea that helping relatives can help increase one's genes in the population. Another involves ecological constraints and punishments. Here, individuals contribute to the group and wait their turn to reproduce.
