Friday, April 30, 2010

The Last Spring 2010 Lecture in Operations Research / Management Sciences

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Today we were treated to a wonderful lecture by Professor Mehmet Gumus of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montre...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Fragile Networks Book Makes a Best Seller List!

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I am delighted to share with you that, according to the Academic Newswire and the Library Journal, the Fragile Networks book that I co-aut...

New Book and Experiment -- Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

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Albert Laszlo Barabasi's new book, which is for a general audience, is to be published today. Barabasi is the physicist (originally from...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Daffodil Lectures on Sustainability and the Environment at UMass Amherst Were Terrific!

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Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Daffodil Lectures at the new Integrated Sciences Building at UMass Amherst. The p...

Multi-product Supply Chains, Network Integration, and Mergers and Acquisitions

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Now that the economy appears to be recovering, more and more companies are looking at mergers and acquisitions as a means of further reducin...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Death by PowerPoint and Hypnotizing Chickens

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The New York Times has an article by Elisabeth Bumiller , with a terrific spaghetti-like graphic on the military's overuse and overreli...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Loving What You Do and Solving the Biggest Problems

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CNN has an Opinion Piece by Professor Terence Tao, about whom I have written about in this blog when Forbes featured him . In the Opinion P...