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Bain & Company's Rob Markey: The Ultimate Question 2.0
Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey's The Ultimate Question 2.0 is a follow-up to the bestselling book that first helped businesses understand their Net Promoter Score. One question -- would you recommend us to a friend? -- offered businesses a vital metric that has since been adopted widely by organizations, including GE. Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader spoke with Markey about what NPS is, how companies can increase the number of people who promote them and why it is now a system and not just a score.Collected in somech's videos Dec 10, 2011 -
Getting Ready for Your First Assignment
Katie Smith Milway on how to make the most of an internal promotion.Collected in somech's videos Nov 22, 2011 -
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Wall Street: The speed traders
Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands of stock trades in less than a second. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7368460n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.9#ixzz1TXQaDdfMCollected in somech's videos Jul 29, 2011 -
Boot Camp for Boosting IQ / Dual N-Back game
Brain Workshop is a free open-source version of the dual n-back brain training exercise. A recent study published in PNAS, an important scientific journal, shows that a particular memory task called dual n-back may actually improve working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence. These findings are important because fluid intelligence was previously thought to be unchangeable.Collected in somech's videos Jun 11, 2011 -
The Ultimate Risky Business: How Lloyd's of London Insures Its Own Future
As CEO of the venerable insurer Lloyd's of London, Richard Ward oversees $33 billion in premiums each year, underwriting such valuables as actress Ugly Betty's smile, soccer star David Beckham's knees and singer Celine Dion's vocal cords.Collected in somech's videos May 8, 2011 -
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Floating cities may be habitats of the future
As our planet becomes more crowded, city planners and architects are trying to come up with new ideas for future human habitation. We've seen biospheres and proposals for underground housing, but now one Boston-based architectural firm has come up with a conceptual plan that envisages cities that float. Ben Gruber reports.Collected in somech's videos May 4, 2011 -
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Your Life Your Money Your Life, Your Money
Featuring compelling real-life stories of young people finding their way through a variety of economic challenges, "Your Life, Your Money" delivers basic financial advice in a simple and relatable manner. This one-hour special raises fiscal consciousness on everything from banking and credit to investments, budgeting, insurance and self employment.Collected in somech's videos Apr 6, 2011 -
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter
In 1979, Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor, Michael E. Porter. It was his first HBR article, and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades, Porter has brought his signature economic rigor to the study of competitive strategy for corporations, regions, nations, and, more recently, health care and philanthropy. “Porter’s five forces” have shaped a generation of academic research and business practicCollected in somech's videos Mar 31, 2011 -
MIT tangible media
A lab uses sensors to customize objects, making computers more interactive.Collected in somech's videos Mar 29, 2011 -
Andreessen on Cloud Computing
Andreessen sees investment opportunity Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, talks about the venture-capital firm's investment strategy and the outlook for the technology industryCollected in somech's videos Mar 28, 2011 -
Derivatives by Marketplace
Credit default swaps? They’re complicated -- and scary! The receipt you get when you pre-order your Thanksgiving turkey? Not so much. But they have a lot in common: They’re both derivatives. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains. More coverage of the financial crisis is at marketplace.org/financialcrisisCollected in somech's videos Mar 28, 2011 -
Guy Kawasaki: How to 'Enchant' Customers
At a Churchill Club event in Mountain View, Calif., author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki shares some tips from his new book, "Enchantment," on how to get customers excited about a product. His three pillars of enchantment for business include: likability, trustworthiness, and a great cause. He says that right now marketers are focused on engagement, and he wants to change the conversation to enchantment.Collected in somech's videos Mar 27, 2011 -
Oblong Industries is remaking the world of computers
Our technology transforms the way you work, create, and collaborate. The era of one human, one mouse, one screen, one machine is giving way to what's next: multiple participants, working in proximity and remotely, using a groundbreaking spatial interface to control applications and data spread across every display. This is what Oblong builds. It's why we're here.Collected in somech's videos Mar 27, 2011 -
PBS Frontline: Cairo Uprising
A special report from FRONTLINE's teams on the groundCollected in somech's videos Mar 27, 2011 -
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somech Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey's The Ultimate Question 2.0 is a follow-up to the bestselling book that first helped businesses understand their Net Promoter Score. One question -- would you recommend us to a friend? -- offered businesses a vital metric that has since been adopted widely by organizations, including GE. Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader spoke with Markey about what NPS is, how companies can increase the number of people who promote them and why it is now a system and not just a score.
Dec 10, 2011