Topic: University of Cambridge

Better, Cheaper LEDs Ringing Death Knell of Fluorescent Bulbs

LED lighting has long been viewed as a superior alternative to compact flourescent bulbs. Although flourescents are more electrically efficient than old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, producing them requires a complex procedure that ...READ»

The Expert on Experts

An expert guide to expertise.READ»

Rowing, Team-building, Winning, and Businesses

The confluence of business and social interests! It is too much fun! Look at this one. Harvard Business Review’s September issue features a piece called “Lessons from the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.” As an ...READ»

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Scientists create an artificial "swarm" to learn how a small band of revolutionaries can overthrow established leaders.READ»

University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School Chooses TOPYX eLearning Solution

Interactyx Limited is very proud to announce today that the TOPYX® eLearning 2.0 solution with integrated social networking technologies, has been chosen by Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge as its comprehensive eLearning content distribution and collaborative learning platform. Students of Cambridge’s Executive MBA programme will commence using TOPYX in August 2009 for a two year term.READ»

A Divine Reading List

Here's a selection of works by Harvard Divinity School faculty and students.READ»

Highest Education

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education has released its Academic Ranking of World Universities. The ranking is based on various indicators of academic and research performance, including Nobel laureates, ...READ»

Cambridge Business School Moves to Topyx for Learning Platform

Executive MBA students at the University of Cambridge will be using an application from Interactyx that combines elements of a course management system with social networking. Over the next two years students in Cambridge's Judge Business School will be working with Topyx eLearning.READ»

What tools are prestigious schools incorporating into their eLearning programs?

The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School implemented a state of the art virtual learning environment (VLE) with Interactyx Limited’s TOPYX® VLE platform. Beginning this term, the candidates of its Executive MBA program will use the TOPYX platform.READ»

Autumn in Camden, Maine II

More from PopTech in Maine... I think I can summarize Clay Shirky's presentation on "social software" in just a few words: The most popular Weblogs are a lot more popular than the least popular Weblogs. (This is known as a "Power ...READ»

Gimme Sanctuary

Andy Taylor has built a music-industry powerhouse by doing what's best for his artists.READ»

Online Education Beats the Classroom

On Wednesday, Aug. 19, the New York Times published an article based on a 12 year study comprehensive study on online education at all levels (K-12, college and adult continuing education programs of all kinds) was recently published. The study encompassed 99 quantitative studies comparing online and instructor lead courses.READ»

Gimme Sanctuary

Andy Taylor has built a music-industry powerhouse by doing what's best for his artists.READ»

Resolution: Create a Stronger, Smarter Organization

Tired of the usual end-of-year reflections? Alongside the new year, you may be looking for a new practice to improve your organization's competitiveness, talent, staying power, and smarts. Conduct a learning culture audit to speed ...READ»

Bad Numbers

For those who major in business with the aim of making pots of money, there is little scope to discover one's own talents, develop one's own values or learn about a world wider than school or college. READ»

The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire

John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster. Today, he runs the world's largest for-profit university -- and a company whose shares are defying gravity on Wall Street. So why do so many smart people say such terrible things about him? And why does he relish their attacks?READ»

How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard

Not long ago, economist Noreena Hertz lived at the lefty margins of her field. But her (widely ignored) prediction of the credit crisis and her call for a more evolved form of capitalism have suddenly put her at the center of the universe.READ»

Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

Good Ways to Deliver Bad News

Dr. Robert Buckman is a cancer specialist who teaches doctors -- as well as executives at IBM, Andersen Consulting, and Upjohn -- how to break bad news: "You can't let emotions interfere with your message."READ»

Green Power

Thanks to soaring fuel prices, lots of creative energy is being applied to alternative energy. The time may finally have come for these three champions of on-the-verge technologies.READ»

Offshoring in Reverse

When many leaders think about offshoring, what comes to mind is Indian call centers, the loss of American jobs, and Indian workers replacing laid-off Americans. Meanwhile, more American executives are taking leadership posts in Indian -- and other overseas -- companies. Will it balance out?READ»

Lighting the GE Way

GE is working as hard as it can to kill off its lightbulb business -- before someone else does.READ»

Learning and Change - Catherine Muther

"Why shouldn't the Internet have as much impact on how we think about philanthropy as it has had on how we think about commerce?"READ»

Roger Cass, The Last Optimist

Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom -- the notion that we're only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.READ»

Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.READ»

• The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0
• Marissa Mayer: The 2008 Fast 50
• Gina Bianchini: Ning's Infinite Ambition