With about one billion computers currently in use, information technology rightfully owns some of the blame for the world's sustainability ills. The lifetime toll for a computer includes substantial resources for manufacture and delivery, then more energy consumed in home offices and companies. …
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Computing IT's Give-and-Take Role in Sustainability -- Part Two
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Economic Impact Study: Phoenix Scores Big with Super Bowl XLII
http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1597Arizona brought its "A" game to the Super Bowl -- both on the field and off -- with a winning coordination of events at Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium. A memorable week of Super Bowl festivities generated a record $500.6 million in direct and indirect spending by visiting fans and organizations, according to the newly released Super Bowl impact study produced by the W. …
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Academic Consultants Bring a Different Perspective to Business Problems
http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1595The stereotypes are familiar to consultants and people who hire them: Commercial consultants are in it for the money. They offer boilerplate products and simple answers to complex problems. Then there are academic consultants. They are detached from the real world, miss deadlines, and make things more complicated than they need to be. …
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The Millennial Generation – Can They Be Trusted?
http://orgreadiness.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-millennial-...podcast
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The Millennial Generation – Can They Be Trusted?
http://orgreadiness.com/2008/05/08/the-millennial-generation...podcast
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iViNNiE - The Number ONE Virtual World News Network - Edita Kaye - Editor in Chief
http://ivinnie.comFree Guide lists over 115 virtual worlds for kids, tweens, teens Terror in the virtual world Today I think I'll be Hippohead Kids in Second Life: does danger lurk? Soon all meetings will be virtual Giving digital devices a 3D view of the world Stagecoach Island: Nexus of the Nexters Inside the world of the Sims Playing games with local and virtual media Breakaway to develop game-based dental implant training Second Life could sexually exploite children via Internet VMWare claims virtual world is greener
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LiveMarks
http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/livemarksA Key to Service Innovation: Services Blueprinting - Knowledge@W.P. Carey NEW .oO
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Corporate culture and ethics
http://www.rampupsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/corpor...allowing, enabling or contributing to every success and failure when it hits the media—and for good reason. But is corporate culture also at the bottom of the amazing number of ethical lapses that have come to light over the last decade or so? In a talk on ethics Bradley Preber, Grant Thornton’s partner-in-charge of its Forensic Accounting and Investigative Services practice commented that “Any company that continues having pervasive and systematic behavior problems with its employees must look at its
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Acronym
http://blogs.asaecenter.org/Acronymthat shares anecdotes and statistics demonstrating how many young women of today aim to become a new kind of leader, driven not by money and power, but by a sense of social responsibility. On the other side of the coin, a recent podcast from Knowledge at W.P. Carey addresses a troubling trend among young people: cheating on tests and lying on resumes to get ahead in school or career. The discussion depicts the youngest members of our workforce as supremely self-centered, willing to trample ethical boundaries in
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Bias: a good reason to settle before trial?
http://mediationchannel.com/2008/04/25/thoughts_on_bias/’s insistence that “I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned”, folks who understood something about the subtle tools of persuasion weren’t so reassured. One of those tools, reciprocity, is what creates a powerful sense of obligation when we receive a gift from someone else. What makes bias so pernicious is that all too often
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Knowledge@Emory
http://knowledge.emory.eduEconomic Impact Study: Phoenix Scores Big with Super Bowl XLII Academic Consultants Bring a Different Perspective to Business Problems Computing IT's Give-and-Take Role in Sustainability -- Part Two Robert Gillette: Making 'Em Fly at Honeywell Aerospace
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Google Alert - allintext:How to reduce travel costs
http://cost-cutting.com/2008/04/24/google-alert-allintexthow...On a typical day, Hernández can travel up to 90 miles along with a crew of three — Michael Hernández, Pedro Velasco and Alejandro Tovar — in two battered … See all stories on this topic Computing IT's Give-and-Take Role in Sustainability — Part Two Knowledge@W. P. Carey (Subscription) - Tempe,USA Cisco claims to have cut its travel costs 30 percent through widespread use of its own TelePresence videoconferencing product. "Even taking one airplane
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“Super” Impact
http://www.thebusinessofsports.com/?p=23Impact Study, and the numbers are, well, super. Having the Super Bowl in Arizona generated a record $500.6 million in spending by both visiting fans and companies. You can read many of the details about the study and the results through the Knowledge@WPCarey
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