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On Reflection: Corporate Game Changer
Gamification software from a UW startup makes biz-school case studies more authentic.
Imagine youre the CEO of an airline in crisis. Customers and shareholders are unhappy. Your employees have just gone on strike. What do you do? Give in to union demands? Hold your ground and negotiate? Fire all the employees? Its the first of a cascading set of decisions you must make in The Signature Case…
On Reflection: Amazon’s Cloud Control
Amazon Web Services is gaining market share at an astonishing rate.
The rapidly growing cloud business of Amazon Web Services (AWS) could soon begin to put the same kind of pressure on the legacy IT sector that Amazon.com has already put on the retail sector. KeyBanc Capital Markets estimates AWS is adding $1 billion in incremental revenues every quarter. Analysts expect annual AWS revenue will more…
On Reflection: Who will be Our Pecora?
Lessons from the depression resonate today.
Eight years on, it seems were still trying to make sense of the financial meltdown, with films like Margin Call, The Big Short and Money Monster grappling with the facts, fixations and fury of that upheaval. A small Seattle theater company called The Repertory Collective joined the fray in March, noting how we confronted this…
On Reflection: Working the Phone
Amazons Mechanical Turk was the first service to allow businesses to connect with hundreds of thousands of anonymous workers around the world and have them handle small tasks for small sums of money. Seattles Spare5 has improved on that model by offering screened experts to perform micro-tasks on a mobile device for micro-payments. Spare5, which…
On Reflection: Volt Athletics Pairs Fitness Coaching with Cloud Technology
In this Fitbit-crazy universe, its one thing to know how many steps we took today. Its another thing entirely to know what to do with that information. We can close that loop, says Dan Giuliani. Wearable technology is telling us what we did but not necessarily telling us what to do. Giuliani and his best…
Angel Investing Goes from Fringe to Fast-growing
Angel investors are a major factor in early-stage investing today, with total investments in 2007 of $26 billion, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. An arena that angel investors are becoming increasingly interested in investing in is so-called clean technology. The term cleantech is generally used to describe…
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