tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62270592012-01-26T11:50:28.977-08:00Not everyone needs to spend $100k+ for a MBA. We will try to cover all the key fundamentals taught in business school, that you really need to know. Stay tuned.Shameeknoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227059.post-1114072531089301882005-04-21T01:28:00.000-07:002006-11-30T02:09:59.346-08:00

A very nice thought which was quoted by David Yoffie, Professor HBS ( of Judo Strategy fame ), in a Stanford Exec briefing I had the opportunity to watch :White - Hasbro i-Dog Robotic Music Loving Canine* To laugh is to risk appearing a fool* To weep is to risk appearing sentimental* To reach out for another is to risk involvement* To expose your feelings is to risk rejection* To place your

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snip :The consensus to emerge from last week's RFID conference was that the true benefits of the technology will not materialize until tag costs go below 10 cents. "What Gen 2 is going to do, hopefully, is get everybody to use the same standard and consequently drive down the costs," said Gary Cooper, Tyson Foods' CTO. "I need the cost to really drop because we're moving hundreds of millions of

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Swiss watchmakers invented the quartz watch, but it went against their paradigm of mechanical watches, so they ignored taking out a patent on it, and rejected the whole idea. They in fact went ahead and presented the technology in international watchmakers conferences as more of an academic exercise. It was then that others, like Japanese watchmakers Seiko, copied the designs and latched onto the

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A student goes through a rigorous martial arts training regimen for years, and the day dawns when he is about to receive his black belt. He goes to his sensei, kneels in front of him, and waits.Sensei asks him, before handing over the black belt - "What do you think is the meaning of the black belt ? ".Student replies "It is a reward, a recognition for all the hard work I put in"Sensei waits for

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This is awesome ! Homeplug uses your existing power cabling to set up ethernet class networks in your home., using just your existing electrical wiring ! And this alliance of all vendors in the value chain, has already started coming up with products. Huuuuuuge shot in the arm for home networking and smart homes - i am amazed. A very old article in Commsdesign about the technology gives a brief

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Checked out this cool new web app at www.furl.net - i always wanted something like this where i could capture my surfing experience, without having to rely on IE bookmarks. I have a feeling this is going to catch on. I have added Furl links to the blog as well.

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PC/Xbox Games development seems like such a perfect candidate for being done out of India.Why ?Becausea. its extremely labour intensive, requiring not just programmers but 3D artists and their ilk.b. its a make or break thing, so u want to minimize the investment required upfront, since u dont know the chances of successc. 3d animation, a related industry is picking up in india - getting good

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Built To Last is another awesome book I read in the recent past. One of the interesting terms coined by the authors is "Big Hairy Audacious Goals "(BHAGs). Research done by the authors reveal that outstanding visionary companies usually have a tendency to take up BHAGs at certain points, and they strive to reach it, with all their might, and a single minded focus. Examples abound - Boeing's

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Finished Liar's poker today - it sure is an unputdownable book ! One character - that of Michael Milken - interested me a lot. Googled him up, and boy - I wonder why I never heard of him before. Milken was this reclusive self built financial wizard who some say was an evil emperor ( he was tried on technical grounds for irregularities in financial transactions ) who bought about the era of

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I am reading these two books to get myself a glimpse into the world of management consulting and trading/i-banking - the two feeder jobs for B school grads - and both the books are excellent reads so far. Thoroughly recommended.One is Liar's poker, which follows the travails of a wannabe in the jungle of bond-trading @ wall street - just started it, and its already got me hooked. Its hilarious,

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