Topic: Duke University

Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ»

Next-Gen Cloaking Devices Even Better At Hiding

The clever chaps at Duke University have been busy beavering away for years to make the sci-fi staple cloaking device a reality, and their recent results mean a real product is closer than ever. They've fabricated a better ...READ»

Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»

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Our Brains Versus Fast Food? No Contest

Do we crave flavor, or just calories? A new study reveals that our brain chemistry may be to blame for our love affair with food.READ»

PhonePoint App Will Let You Write in Thin Air

Students at Duke University have developed an application that allows users to write short notes in thin air using the accelerometers in their phones.READ»

The Big Issue(s)

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

MBA Front Lines

Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America's most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.READ»

Rex Adams

Do Online Education and Training Click? Rex Adams Dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University Even for top business schools, using the Internet to supplement classroom learning is a relatively new endeavor. Fuqua was the ...READ»

Advertisers in Issue 31

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The Making of the 2007 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards

The numbers: 314 nominations, 133 applicants, 43 winners What we required: The executive director's statement explaining mission and strategy; two years of audited financials and tax filings; and a 35-question survey regarding ...READ»

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Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips

Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips If you want top-tier business talent to fill positions in your office, look here first! MBA student and alumni online resume books are available to order right now! ...READ»

Do Online Education and Training Click?

Rex Adams Rex Adams is the dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Wrote about: Do Online Education and Training Click? Is reading: On a daily basis ... the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New ...READ»

Behind the (i)Podium

Yesterday, Shasha touched on some of Apple's recent improvements to the iPod. In today's news, it's reported that Duke University will issue 1,650 iPods preloaded with an academic calendar and course material as part of a $500,000 ...READ»

CEO: Career Ending Opportunity

"The giant sucking sound heard in the business world during 2004 was the extraction of chief executives from seats of power," states a recent study by Booz Allen Hamilton consultants. According to the study, of the world's 2,500 ...READ»

Undercover Bedbugs?

The latest in soldiery: a menagerie of robo-animals.READ»

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It doesn't cost $40,000. It doesn't take two years. And you're never late to class.READ»

Artery, Heal Thyself

Abbott's new absorbable stent could change heart surgery and revive a $5 billion business.READ»

A Cast of Leaders

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ»

Hope and Dreams

University of North Carolina professor Jim Johnson teaches business-school students, but his real mission is to build bridges.READ»

Will Companies Ever Learn?

Judy Rosenblum has dealt with all of the obstacles that keep companies from getting smarter. Here is her 10-point curriculum for getting smart about learning.READ»

Leader - Bob Moffat

The personal-computer business used to be fast growing and glamorous. Now it's ruled by price wars, vanishing stock prices, consolidation, and layoffs. So why is Bob Moffat, who runs IBM's PC group, having such a good time at work?READ»

What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Should you go to business school? If so, how do you get in? And if you go, what will you take away? If you want to pass the B-school test, take a lesson from some B-school students.READ»