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Better management would allow American universities to do more with less DEREK BOK, a former president of Harvard, once observed that “universities share one characteristic with compulsive gamblers and exiled royalty: there is never enough money to satisfy their desires.” This is a bit hard on compulsive gamblers and exiled royals. America’s universities have raised their fees five times as fast as inflation over the past 30 years. Student debt in America exceeds credit-card debt.
How to cope with data overload GOOGLE “information overload” and you are immediately overloaded with information: more than 7m hits in 0.05 seconds. Some of this information is interesting: for example, that the phrase “information overload” was popularised by Alvin Toffler in 1970. Some of it is mere noise: obscure companies promoting their services and even more obscure bloggers sounding off
Businesses are learning to serve the growing number of hard-up Americans MANAGEMENT gurus have rhapsodised about “the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid” in emerging markets ever since C.K.
We mentioned in our recent interview with AHAlife’s founder and director Shauna Mei that SQUA.RE is collaborating with AHALife, and today we launch our collaboration; a joint pop-up online boutique of SQUA.RE and AHALife’s favorite items. Click on the image below. AHAlife‘s mission is to find the best unique products from around the world. Together [...]
The NHS needs to learn from innovations in the rest of the world NO SPECTACLE is “so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality”, harrumphed Thomas Macaulay, a Victorian historian. Today there is no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of panic about the National Health Service (NHS). Every decade or so the government tries to reform the NHS—and every decade or so the NHS masses its forces to work the public into a frenzy
SQUA.RE is proud to introduce to you the unique concept and vision of AHALife.com in online retail, with an exclusive interview with founder and CEO, Shauna Mei. AHAlife is the online discovery destination where you can learn about – and purchase – the best unique products from around the world, collectively curated by a group [...]