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Comment on John Deere and CSR by rawhouser

rawhouser — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:37:18 +0000

Wow, that sounds like a really interesting talk. They have the potential to really help the world through agriculture. I’ve thought about whether this “counts” as social innovation. They can clearly do a lot to reduce hunger and poverty, but it often falls outside of the term social innovation, UNLESS it is explained in this way.

Comment on Is Entrepreneurship good? by Applied Technology Ventures » Is Entrepreneurship good?

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Comment on Class featured on the Carlson website by rawhouser

rawhouser — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:30:52 +0000

Yes, that’s very exciting. I look forward to seeing their presentation as well as the presentation of Rasik Phalak at the Minnesota Cup, where they are both finalists. It would be great to see MGMT 4080 teams win the top two spots.
On side note: In our defense, none of us knew that they were going to be doing video.

Comment on Post Paper or email Paper for review by rawhouser

rawhouser — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:30:48 +0000

Please e-mail the paper and the slides. We will make a page to post the slides only on the website after the presentations are finished.

Comment on Entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and business thinkers reveal their recipes for success. by rawhouser

rawhouser — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:59:06 +0000

Carl, I really liked the point from Robin Wright about talking to the engineers at 3M about their tape, and realizing that they could make a new and interesting product claim on a product that they thought was just the same as every other.
Ian Powell’s point about treating people with respect, and the idea to just try, even if you fail, are great too.

Comment on Future technolgies from TED by rawhouser

rawhouser — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:27:23 +0000

Wow, thanks for the link Luke. I love watching TED, but sometimes it’s hard to find the talks that are most interesting. I really like the idea of using online games for useful purposes.

Comment on Future technolgies from TED by Lucas_Spangler

Lucas_Spangler — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:52:12 +0000

For the interested this article breaks down some of the other really interesting TED talks.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/16/ted.people/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Comment on How much do people matter? by mulle167

mulle167 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:12:09 +0000

I completely agree with the idea of paying more to get the best, but how on earth do they justify the idea that they have the best? As far as I can tell, the “top talent” that AIG is paying to retain has failed miserably.

The idea of a bonus is to reward someone for a job well done and to share the company’s success with its employees. It is incentive to do well when it is used in this way. When you continue to hand out rewards after a failure, you have disconnected the cause and effect and the feedback mechanism is now broken. Instead of searching for new ideas and better ways to manage, these people are receiving the message that everything is alright, proceed as usual. Everything is not alright.

Comment on How much do people matter? by nachiket

nachiket — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53:17 +0000

This is a typical strawman. I do not know if you are the best talent out there, would you like to work for AIG, given the publicity it has? I saw this same comment repeated often when I was researching the options backdating paper, we need to pay more to compensate and retain the best talent and since we do not have liquidity we will backdate. Reminds me of the Kenneth Lay chair in economics. No amount of endowed funds could fill that chair…

Comment on Technology Leapfrogging by nachiket

nachiket — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:39:30 +0000

Yes this is a good observation Todd about open source. In fact there is a saying the eyeballs reduce bugs-very true for open source as a host of users and developers ensure that bugs are idenitifed early and patched in no time. However, there are contingencies to when open source works, for instance only when the design rules (something we did not get into in our class) are clear. So people know what a web browser should be and should do and a dominant design has emerged. Now entrepreneurs can take advantage of readily available talent which thanks to communication channels is easily accesible and autonomously assemble some product via open source. This class is a very crude attempt to have open source learning where we learn from each other and we benefit from each other’s knowledge and insights. We also share videos and ratings to quickly identify the ones that are most useful. However here to the design rules are clear. Can there be open source in industries where design rules / interfaces are not known or where communciation channels about expertise are difficult ? Probably not yet for say aircraft manufacture.