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Managers Take Note: Obama's Nobel Prize Rewards Attitude, not Results
Would you have voted to give President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize? If you were grading on production, clearly not. What, then, is the Noble Committee teaching managers about the right time to give rewards? by Sean Silverthorne
Tags: Nobel Prize, Manager, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-10-09
Dear C.E.O.: Write Your Own Obituary on BNET
Dear C.E.O.: Write Your Own Obituary on BNETRE: Dear C.E.O.: Write Your Own Obituary on BNETGreat insights and the tactics align with my personal mission of beginning with the end in mind. As we focus on our legacy it can guide the choices we make along the journey. Imagine if...
Tags: Write-Your-Own Obituary, C.E.O., Nobel Prize
Discussion threads 2008-09-02
Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom
Paul Samuelson, America's first Nobel Prize winner in economics, passed away earlier this week. Here are some of the investing insights he gave us. by Larry Swedroe
Tags: Nobel Prize, Paul Samuelson, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Swedroe
Blog posts 2009-12-17

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IT gurus win Nobel Prize
October 07, 2009THREE physicists won the 2009 Nobel Prize for work on fibre optics and light sensing that helped unleash the information technology revolution.Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith were hailed by the Nobel jury as "the masters of light" for transforming communications from copper-wire telephony and postal mail...
Tags: Sensor, globe, jury, Camera, Digital Camera
News items 2009-10-06
Obama's Nobel Prize – What Effect Could it Have on the Copenhagen Conference?
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize score could have numerous implications – including potential benefits for the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (scheduled for December 7th through 18th). According to a Reuters report, some analysts believe the award could push Obama to attend the Conference, in part because officials will hand over...
Tags: Conference, Copenhagen
News items 2009-10-10
FCC's 'Nobel Prize'. (B&C Eye).(creator of FCC spectrum auctioning process wins Nobel Prize for Economics)
FCC Chairman Michael Powell's faith in the marketplace got a boost a couple of weeks back with the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Sharing in the prize was George Mason ... FCC Chairman Michael Powell's faith in the marketplace got a boost...
Tags: FCC
Research articles 2002-10-21
Nobel prize season kicks off with medicine prize
STOCKHOLM AFP — The 2007 Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize and runs through next Monday, with the fight against climate change tipped for the prestigious Peace Prize. As is tradition, the Nobel prize committees are keeping mum ahead of the much-awaited...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chemistry, Games
Research articles 2007-10-08
Tech pioneers win 2009 Nobel prize in physics
"Two revolutionary optical technologies" have won the 2009 Nobel prize for physics.Charles K. Kao, who discovered how to transmit light through fiber optics, and the team of Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, who designed the first digital imaging sensor, split the award, announced by the Nobel Foundation on...
Tags: Sensor, Fiber, Imaging, Digital Imaging, Fiber-optics, consumer camera, fiber cable, digital imaging sensor
News items 2009-10-06
IBM woman first to win computing's 'Nobel Prize'.
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 February 2007-IBM: IBM woman first to win computing's 'Nobel Prize'C1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22022007 Frances E. Allen, a retired IBM researcher, is the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award from ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery....
Tags: ACM, Allen, computing, IBM Corp., PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2007-02-23
Wiley Congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 October 2005-WILEY: Wiley Congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize Winners in ChemistryC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07102005 Hoboken, NJ - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., congratulates Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock, and Yves Chauvin, the joint winners of the...
Tags: John Wiley & Sons Inc., polymer, synthesis, Wiley
Research articles 2005-10-07
Wiley congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 October 2005-JOHN WILEY & SONS: Wiley congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize winners in chemistryC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07102005 Hoboken, NJ - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., congratulates Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock, and Yves Chauvin, the...
Tags: chemistry, Company, John Wiley & Sons Inc., polymer, synthesis, Wiley
Research articles 2005-10-07
Hollywood actor Tommy Lee Jones to host Nobel Prize concert in Oslo
OSLO AFP — Hollywood actor Tommy Lee Jones, who was once the roommate of former US vice president and Nobel prize winner Al Gore, will co-host the traditional December concert which honours the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, organisers said Wednesday. This year's prestigious prize went to Gore and the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Oslo
Research articles 2007-11-07
Nobel Prize winner donates $500,000 to UC Berkeley cosmology center
BERKELEY _ Nobel Prize winner George Smoot is paying it forward. The astrophysicist, who last year won the Nobel Prize for his work confirming the ``Big Bang'' theory as the origin of the universe, is donating $500,000 to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at the University...
Tags: NETWORKING, University of California at Berkeley
Research articles 2007-12-04
Ride the Light: Nobel Prize Awarded to Fiber-Optic Pioneer
One of the recipients of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics was the researcher who figured out how to send wavelengths of light over long distances of fiber-optic cabling, thereby making high-speed cable and telco backbone networks possible. In 1966, Charles K. Kao — then director of engineering at Standard...
Tags: Fiber, discovery, Fiber-optics
News items 2009-10-06
An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 25 Nobel Prize Winners
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is the text of an open letter to the U.S. Congress signed by 25 Nobel Prize winners: WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is the text of an open letter to the U.S. Congress signed by 25 Nobel Prize winners:
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-08-30
Pair probing mystery of smell split Nobel Prize
Two scientists who discovered how the nose knows one odor from another are savoring the sweet smell of success -- this year's Nobel Prize in medicine. "The sense of smell long remained the most enigmatic of our senses," notes the Nobel Assembly in Sweden. Richard Axel, 58, of the...
Tags: cell, Columbia University, smell
Research articles 2004-10-05
[ I confess: I didn't win Nobel Prize ]
I confess: I didn't win Nobel Prize Midweek musings while confessing that despite what someone wrote on my resume, I really wasn't a two-time basketball All-American at K- State or a Rhodes Scholar, and I was only joking about the Nobel Prize: - And I wasn't...
Tags: Games, NFL, team
Research articles 2001-12-19
Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter in London hospital
LONDON AFP — Prominent British playwright Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel prize for literature, has been taken to a London hospital. "He hasn't been very well for a while. He is back in hospital," his agent, Judy Daish, told AFP on Monday. Pinter's doctors had already...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, agent, ceremony, HEALTHCARE, hospital, lecture, London
Research articles 2005-12-05
'Crododile Dundee' Aussie tells of 'fun' having Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM AFP — Australian Barry Marshall, this year's joint winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, confessed how much fun it was to have joined the illustrious gallery of laureates. "You can't imagine how terrific it is," Marshall, in Stockholm to pick up his award at the weekend, told...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bacteria, Marshall
Research articles 2005-12-07
Hume Nominated for Nobel Prize
Niall O'Dowd Irish Voice 10-11-1994 Hume Nominated for Nobel Prize. JOHN Hume, the leader of the SDLP Social Democratic and Labor Party, has said he is delighted and honored to have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by his fellow European...
Tags: European Parliament, leader, Leadership
Research articles 1994-10-11
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