We continue our examination of the business book Blue Ocean Strategy with an interview of authors W. Chan Kim And Renée Mauborgne. We explore their motivation for writing the book, and why more companies are using their strategies
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How is a blue ocean different from the usual business market? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Blue Ocean Strategy (2005) by W.
Read More »10 Cool Exercise Innovations
Working out has never been more efficient or a bigger part of a human culture than it is today. We've dug into the history of kinesiology to find the inventions and processes that changed exercise.
Read More »Sell on Value, Not on Price
Don't want to compromise on price? Experts explain how to stay competitive based on the value of your product or service to consumers.
Read More »First Humans Who Left Africa Continued to Mate with Africans
By Ewen Callaway pf Nature magazine Stored inside Craig Venter's genome are clues to the history of humankind, including global migrations and population crashes. [More]
Read More »Doctor Who Time Warps To Facebook’s VOD
By order of the Shadow Proclamation (okay, Facebook), select episodes of Doctor Who will materialize online for fans around the world. Including one that's never been released before. The BBC, that venerable broadcaster adored by grandmas across the globe, is trying something new: Its Worldwide arm is putting select episodes of one of the BBC's content jewels, Doctor Who, online as a paid video-on-demand service on Facebook .
Read More »How Businesses Can Forge (Much-Coveted) Brand Partnerships With Foursquare
Foursquare gets hundreds, if not thousands, of brand requests every week. Here's how to forge a partnership with the in-demand service, and to reach customers who might get lost in the shuffle on Facebook or Twitter
Read More »How to Brand Big
You probably wouldn’t expect The University of Southern Mississippi to be accepting national awards among top marketers from American Express or Coca Cola, but in June, the university’s president, Dr. Martha Saunders , took home its second Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award, as well as several Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence. While the daunting task of branding a University is a far cry from branding a small business, I jumped at the opportunity to learn a few things from the woman who increased Southern Miss’s national media coverage by over 800 percent, web traffic by 107 percent, the alumni association by more than a 1,000 members beyond its goals and freshmen enrollment by 14 percent
Read More »What Hanksy’s Rat-Themed Street Art Means For Tom Hanks’ "Larry Crowne"
As Tom Hanks heads to the box office with his latest flick, a rodent-bodied spoof pops up on the streets of NYC--and on popular photo app Instagram. Is this a marketing stunt or just an odd cultural collision
Read More »Go to Landfill, Find a Dinosaur Footprint!
Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.
Read More »An Education in Cheese
Cheese is a world unto itself. Cheese U Boot Camp, a three-day course ($495) offered by the venerable cheesemonger Murray’s, lets you jump in with combat-booted feet.
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Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D. Jackson and David J
Read More »Incredible Find in Temple Museum, Harrowing Rescue on Crumbly Mudstone
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Read More »MSU China Paleontology Expedition–New season starts with division of egg duties, petrified trees, soybean Popsicles
Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D. Jackson and David J. Varricchio, professors in the Department of Earth Sciences, Dinosaur Paleontology at Montana State University and Jin Xingsheng, paleontologist and Vice Director of the Zhejiang Natural History Museum in Hangzhou, China
Read More »What bats, bombs, and sharks taught us about hearing [Video]
The most surprising part of this story was that they managed to record brainwave activity from the sharks. This tale is about one of the most fascinating figures in the history of neuroscience: Dr.
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