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Research report: September 2008 The art of innovation How fine arts graduates contribute to innovation Kate Oakley, Brooke Sperry and Andy Pratt Edited by Hasan Bakhshi The art of innovation How fine arts graduates contribute to innovation Foreword In the 21st century, the UK’s economic competitiveness and social wellbeing will increasingly depend on our ability to innovate. A significant part of the innovation process revolves around ‘creativity’ – the ability to generate…

Accounting Education Series, Volume No. 16 Accounting Education: Charting the Course through a Perilous Future W. Steve Albrecht, Brigham Young University Robert J. Sack, University of Virginia Table of Contents Foreword About the Authors About the Sponsoring Organizations About the Sponsors Task Force Members • • • • • • • • CHAPTER 1 Why Accounting Education May Not Survive in the Future CHAPTER 2 Changes in the Business Environment CHAPTER 3 Fewer and Less Qualified Students…

always know when an HBR article hits the big time. Journalists write about it, pundits talk about it, executives routecopiesof it around the organization, and its vocabulary becomes familiar to managers everywhere -sometimes to the point where they don't even associate the words with the original article. Most important, of course, managers change how they do business because the ideas in the piece helped them see issues in a new light. "Marketing Myopia" is the quintessential big hit…

Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands ziv@cs.vu.nl February 2002 Preface Preface This Master thesis is the final product of six-months of research, comprising the last phase of my studies for an MSc degree in computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The research was carried out in cooperation by the Vrije Universiteit and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young Nederland B.V., where I was employed during the research. Two people have supervised the research:…

Derivatives THE TOOLS THAT CHANGED FINANCE Derivatives THE TOOLS THAT CHANGED FINANCE Phelim Boyle & Feidhlim Boyle Acknowledgements Several people have helped us in connection with this book and it has benefited from their comments and their suggestions. Even when we did not follow their advice on a particular point, we were forced to think about how we could do a better job of explaining the issue. These individuals are not responsible for any remaining errors – we…

criteria and selction processCriteria and Selection process Based on the explanation provided earlier, we organized our selection process to look for sustainable and responsible investment following 3 steps and 2 different ways. First of all we decided as a part of our philosophy, to determine what non sustainable investment is and reduce by this the investment universe. We want that our investors are sure of our sustainable responsibility since this is our main objectives. We hence…

deterioration and consequently facilitating the commercialization of many types of products. This paper summarizes the findings from a literature review on the technology of modified atmosphere packaging and analyzes its effects as well as related safety issues for different gas mixtures. The bacteriostatic effect of modified atmosphere packaging is usually due to the action of carbon dioxide, which extends the adaptation phase and decreases the rate of microbial growth. The ideal gas…

SETTLEMENT The early history of the Celts is murky, but it is thought that they originated somewhere in the eastern part of central Europe around the 2nd millennium BC and began to migrate across the continent, arriving in France some time in the 7th century BC. In the 3rd century a group of Celtic Gauls called the Parisii settled on the site of present-day Paris. Centuries of conflict between the Gauls and Romans ended in 52 BC, with the latter taking control of the territory.…

Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceuticals DRUGS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES A Series of Textbooks and Monographs Executive Editor PharmaceuTech, Inc. Pinehurst, North Carolina James Swarbrick Advisory Board University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Larry L. Augsburger Harry G. Brittain Center for Pharmaceutical Physics Milford, New Jersey Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Jennifer B. Dressman Anthony J. Hickey University…

TLFeBOOK Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant H A R VA R D B U S I N E S S S C H O O L P R E S S BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( W. Chan Kim Renée Mauborgne Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a…