Author: timbatchelder

  • Understanding culture: why Walmart has struggled in China

    Sea Bass With Barbie Dolls Challenge Wal-Mart in China By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com Play Shelves stacked to the ceil­ing with low-price hot sauce, Bar­bie dolls, and noo­dles stand near tanks where shop­pers can fish out live sea bass for din­ner. Wel­come to RT-Mart, China’s ver­sion of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) From Shang­… RT @BloombergNews:…

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  • Struggling Big Pharma returns to Chinese ethno medicine for ideas

    Ancient Chinese Cures Seen Helping Drugmaker Pipelines By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com The world’s biggest drug­mak­ers are turn­ing to ancient Chi­nese reme­dies to boost prod­uct pipelines. Glax­o­SmithK­line Plc is test­ing botan­i­cals — com­pounds extract­ed from plants — for immune dis­or­ders, Sanofi plans to turn… RT @BloombergNews: The world’s biggest drugmakers are turning to ancient Chinese…

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  • Why LinkedIn is replacing Monster as job search tool

    Job Recruiters Eschew Monster to Find Hidden Talent on LinkedIn By Olga Kharif -, bloomberg.com In his more than 15 years as a head­hunter, Jeff Vijung­co has tried Mon­ster, Craigslist, Career­Builder, and other online job boards. Late­ly the head of recruit­ment at Adobe Sys­tems Inc. (ADBE) has scrapped most of them. “I think job post­i……

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  • Visualizing cities at night with no lights

    This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city… RT @core77: Awesome…

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  • Mitt’s son says he was not up for the job

    Mitt’s Son Says He Never Wanted to be President Anyway Connor Simpson, theatlanticwire.com If you thought the tale of how Mitt Rom­ney lost the gen­er­al elec­tion was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never want­ed to be Pres­i­dent any­way. At least, that’s what Tagg…

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  • Calculating a College Degree’s True Value

      businessweek.com Some states are posting their graduates’ salaries online RT @BW: What’s a college degree really worth? | http://flip.it/TbD8l http://flip.it/wx3kw Calculating a College Degree’s True Value Related articles Is the value of a college degree dwindling away? (bizjournals.com) Is this the ‘definitive guide’ to the college grad job market? (costofcollege.wordpress.com)

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  • Why Everyone at My Company Has One Job Title

    Issie Lapowsky, inc.com Inc. magazine The Nerdery, No. 99 on Inc.’s Hire Power list, rose above tragedy to give every employee a personal stake in success COM­PA­NY PRO­FILE Com­pa­ny: The Nerdery Head­quar­ters: Bloom­ing­ton, MN Founder: Mike… RT @whatifglobal: Why one company named all its employees “co-presidents”: Another moving read from @Inc’s Hire Power Awards http://flip.it/BH3bP…

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  • Top towns to raise kids

    (via America’s Best Places to Raise Kids 2013 – Businessweek) Related articles Oro Valley named best Arizona place to raise kids () Only the Apocalypse Will Stop Simpson and Bowles (businessweek.com) Best Towns for Raising Families in New England (boston.com) Show Them the Money: Top Valley Coders Now Have Agents, Too (businessweek.com) Multiplayer Game ‘EVE…

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  • Why military weapons don’t belong in our communities

    Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities Bloomberg By The Numbers » 15.5 How many points the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort index rose in the past 17 weeks., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by Scott Olson/Getty Images A “weapon of war” — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slay­ing of…

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  • Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon

    American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015 By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.com Guns and cars have long been among the lead­ing caus­es of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatal­i­ties will prob­a­bly exceed traf­fic fatal­i­ties for the first time, based on data com­piled by Bloomberg. While motor-vehicle… RT…

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  • Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

    You, Under the Retail Microscope By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.com Fred­er­ic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images It’s the clas­sic hol­i­day face-off. On one side, you have the wary shop­per, who is often “just brows­ing” and more and more like­ly to pur­chase only online. On the other, there’s the sales­per­son, wh… RT @BloombergNews: How stores use…

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  • Gen Y professionals give up cubicles for personal control

    American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals By Elliot Blair Smith -, bloomberg.com After being dis­missed from her job as a Mid­town Man­hat­tan secu­ri­ties attor­ney in Octo­ber 2009, Christi­na Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trail­er to her Dodge Ram pick­up and drove 1,628 miles to Texas. The 32-year-old lawyer sold… RT @BloombergNews: For young Generation…

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  • Why Apple will grow faster with Tim Cook

    Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More Paul Spiegelman, inc.com THE CULTURE GAP How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’. Much has been writ­ten about the bril­liance of Steve Jobs and the icon­ic com­pa­ny that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser…

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  • iPads swarm healthcare

    Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health? By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns. Slow­ly but sure­ly, iPads are chang­ing the fa… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good…

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  • Frog picks top tech trends

    20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog By frog, fastcodesign.com From automated cars to smarter smartphones, here are the ideas that will shape the future. Yes, it’s already that tran­si­tion­al time when our cur­rent year ends and anoth­er begins, and today and tomor­row are quick­ly chang­ing hands. Rather… RT @FastCompany: The tech…

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  • IBM says future of tech is cognitive science

    IBM Imagines Our Five-Year Future: It’s A Touchy, Feely, Smart World By Kit Eaton, fastcompany.com IBM guesses at innovations that will change the world inside the next half a decade, and much of it requires computers that work like your brain. It’s a smart idea to think of IBM as one of the smartest com­pa­nies…

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  • Follow the journey of your trash

    The GPS-Tracked Life Cycle of Garbage By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new project uses location-based data from a throwaway mobile phone to track the life cycle of New York’s garbage. A New York-based techie’s new prod­uct uses mobile phone loca­tion data to track the path of garbage from trash bin to land­fill.… RT @FastCompany: The…

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  • Brooklyn clinic provides direct care for freelancers

    A Brooklyn Clinic For Freelancers Looks To Change The Insurance Industry BY KATHARINE GAMMON, fastcoexist.com The health insurance from the Freelancer’s Union has been a godsend to the city’s workers in the gig economy. Now it’s opened a brick and mortar doctor’s office where freelancers can go to get cutting-edge health care. In a brick…

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  • Figure your real career aptitude with data and online tools

    How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thomp­son, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…

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  • Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

    How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape. Years ago, when spooks and gov­ern­ment employ­ees need­ed a secure smart­phone, they turned to Research in… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices…

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  • Visualize the management team’s mutations

    Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What would your corporate structure look like if you tracked every employee, manager, and department over years? Maybe a lot like this. Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larg­er machine. The prob­lem can be, how do you track that……

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  • Convert NYC into wetlands to hurricane proof the city

    A Plan To Hurricane-Proof New York, With A Ring Of Wetlands By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com A grassy buffer zone around Lower Manhattan might work better than big seawalls—and look better, too. In the wake of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, there have been a flur­ry of ideas on how to deal with the prospect that storms of such…

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  • Talented workers bring their own devices

    Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…

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  • Why the walking dead is so addictive yet mindless

    loafersansocks: I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore. When I did, however, this is exactly how I felt. The large portion that is pink was ultimately enough to make me steer clear for the rest of the series. Related articles Walking Dead continues to Bore us all (reviewsofthetube.wordpress.com)

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