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- The Importance of Weak Ties
- The Importance of Weak TiesAgree- Weak Ties Are Best TiesI agree. Whenever I have looked for jobs or contacts in the past, I find my best friends are almost useless at getting me interviews. Either we know the same people or in my case, they are in completely different fields...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- The Importance of Weak Ties
- A weak tie for me is an email-only or phone-only relationship with someone. The weak ties in your network are important and underrated. Virginia Postrel, in this Forbes article on networks, reminds us that people usually find jobs not through their close friends but through their weak ties. Excerpt:To...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
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- Facebook in Pinstripes
- Forget Microsoft Office and Excel. Your next powerful business tool could be Facebook. In a post earlier this month, Andy McAfee, a Harvard Business School professor and an expert on Web 2.0 technologies and their applications in business, argues that social networking software brings certain types of...
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Pub 'ties' not anti-competitive rules OFT
- Shares in pub groups soared on Thursday following a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading that exclusive purchase agreements between breweries and pubs were not anti-competitive. The decision prompted protest from beer advocates and independent pub operators but shares in listed breweries soared. Punch Taverns, the UK's largest landlord,...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Stifel Lowers Sirius Estimates on Weak Auto Sales
- Tyler Savery submits: Stifel analyst Kit Springs issued a report Wednesday in which he lowered estimates in the subscriber and revenue category, but maintained a BUY rating with a price target of $1.25. Springs notes several factors in his report, but mostly ties the lowered guidance to weak auto...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Facebook in Pinstripes
- Facebook in PinstripesEnterprise leverage of current commercial SNPPlatforms such as LinkedIn and even Linden Lab's Second Life are deployed social networking platforms the enterprise is already leveraging through use by their employees to establish beneficial weak ties as well as to modify distributed employee behavior. As simple examples, LinkedIn...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Great Moments in Terrible Ideas: A Social Network for Your Company
- Great Moments in Terrible Ideas: A Social Network for Your Companynot the expert...Making broad statements and generalizations is a great conversation starter, but don't couch them as coming from an expert. Social Networks on the web are only beginning to reach their potential, and corporate knowledge management has been an...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Commercial Satellite Industry Has Weak Ties to Human Space Flight Program.
- By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 6--For the struggling commercial satellite industry, the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia last weekend was the least of its problems. After years of growth driven by sales...
- Research articles 2003-02-06
- GE ties with NBC come under pressure
- General Electric's potential NBC Universal spin-off, in which the cable television group Comcast would end up with a majority of the media division, seems to break many of the rules that have guided the conglomerate's dealmaking strategy for decades.GE would cede control of NBC while still reporting a meaningful...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Research Meets Practice
- In the process of linking scientists and practitioners through an informatics network, not only is the transfer of information being facilitated, but vital social ties between individuals and social systems that previously had no reliable links are being created. Such "Weak links," or casual and informal social ties and connections,...
- White papers
- Time stands still: top exec, editor get marching orders to revive Time Inc.'s lagging flagship. (E. Bruce Hallett; Walter Isaacson)
- When E. Bruce Hallett arrived in Australia eight years ago to head Time Inc.'s office there, he found a much-neglected, money-losing operation. In short order, he severed ties with a weak joint venture partner, launched Australia's version of People maWhen E. Bruce Hallett arrived in Australia eight...
- Research articles 1996-04-29
- Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 9/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from line of Robert Maire with Needham & Company. Please proceed. Robert Maire - Needham & Company Yes, by the way congratulations on very, very nice results. Couple of questions. Number one, could you tell...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Serious flaw in Web browser security reported
- By Jonathan StrayBERLIN--A key piece of Internet technology that banks, e-commerce sites, and financial institutions rely on to keep transactions safe suffers from a serious security vulnerability, an international team of researchers plans to announce Tuesday.They plan to demonstrate how to forge security certificates used by secure Web sites, a...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Spansion Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question comes from Michael Masdea - Credit Suisse. Michael Masdea - Credit Suisse Good progress in the quarter. Can you give us a little more quantification of the impact of the 12,000 wafers and also the distribution inventory change on...
- Earnings calls 2006-10-18
- General Motors to Cut Media Spending, Drops Super Bowl
- One of the big success stories of online advertising was General Motors' pledge to shift at least half of their ad spend over to online in the next year -- a total of $1.5 billion in new cash. Now it looks like that money is up in smoke, as the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Inventories Weigh Down Retailers
- For several major retailers, weak sales are leading to higher inventory levels, which is a position most merchants don't want to be in. According to data compiled from Capital IQ (which isn't available online), multi-line and specialty retailers are sitting on $5.5 billion more inventory in the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- China and Brazil Ask, "Why Bother With Dollars?"
- Worldwide economic weakness is reshaping the proportions of global trade. With its demand for soybeans, iron ore and oil back on their growth trends, China has become the largest importer of Brazilian goods, displacing the U.S. from its decades-old position as Brazil's biggest trading partner. As a result of the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Newfound tiny Tyrannosaur had horns, snout
- The tyrannosaur family tree just got a little bigger. A newfound relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was a smaller, and more graceful, carnivore than its fearsome cousin, but it sported some bizarre features, including a horn and a long snout. The newly described T. rex cousin, described in the Oct. 5...
- News items 2009-10-05
- At CES, the Expectations for 2009 are Grim
- LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Top technology companies came to Las Vegas to show off their latest innovations in consumer electronics, but despite the plethora of TVs, computers, phones, cameras and other gadgets on display, it was clear the industry is bracing for a very tough year. While there were a...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Future of Opel is hot topic in Germany
- General Motors Co. has waded directly into Germany's fevered election politics in its effort to secure financial support for its German carmaker, Adam Opel. GM hoped to line up investors for cash-strapped Opel by mid-July. But as sale talks drag on, the carmaker's fate is turning into a hot-button issue...
- News items 2009-08-26
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