From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Dec 15 14:59:32 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:59:32 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Semler on Leadership, Jay Keyser on MIT Hacks
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[LEADING BY OMISSION]
Semler's radical approach to management and leadership may enable you to
drop your five-year business plan in exchange for a "rolling rationale
about numbers". This is a must-see for inspiration on not only thinking
outside of the box, but for working outside of the box.
SPEAKER:
Ricardo Semler
President, Semco S/A
Author
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Every one of us can send emails on Sunday night, but how many of us
know how to go to the movies on Monday afternoon?"
--Riocardo Semler
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[WHERE THE SUN SHINES, THERE HACK THEY]
Using photos, artifacts and his own insights into the psychological
implications of hacking, Keyser takes us through an unofficial history
of hacks, explaining why a hack has to be clever, and why it is hard to
do "an elegant hack that does no harm". As one who admires and respects
hacking, he explains his own view on not prohibiting hacks, as to do so
would simply raise the bar on the next hack.
SPEAKER:
Samuel Jay Keyser
Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Special Assistant to the Chancellor
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"One day when I was Associate Provost, I got a visit from a young woman.
She was talking to me about hacks. I asked, 'Are you involved in
hacking?' She didn't answer me but went over and picked the lock on my
door."
--Jay Keyser
EVENT HOST: MIT Activities Committee (MITAC)
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 21 11:26:04 2005
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:26:04 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: NYSE CEO Thain, Newton on Engineering Systems
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[CONVOCATION KEYNOTE (1)]
n this first lecture from Sloan's Convocation, John Thain (SB '77)
provides insights into the changes he is making at the New York Stock
Exchange.
SPEAKER:
John Thain
Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange
PLAY NOW:
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We don't want to be an electronic processing network. People need to
figure out what the right price is. The morning Merck withdrew Vioxx,
there were five million shares to sell, and zero to buy. It took a
person to figure out the fair price for buyers and sellers."
--John Thain
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[THE 21ST CENTURY IS ABOUT ENGINEERING, SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY]
Newton explains UC Berkeley's approach to engineering systems, with an
emphasis on "societal-scale information systems".
SPEAKER:
A. Richard Newton
Dean of the College of Engineering, and
Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Engineers should spend time in a culture that is radically different
from the one they grew up in. I don't care if they work on an
engineering project or not."
-- A. Richard Newton
EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 28 10:50:43 2005
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:50:43 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Negroponte's $100 Laptop, Locke on Globalization
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[THE HUNDRED DOLLAR LAPTOP--COMPUTING FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS]
Negroponte provides first hand account of his revolutionary idea, to
make a laptop computer available and affordable for more than 800
million children worldwide--in one of the most interesting technology
stories of 2005.
SPEAKER:
Nicholas P. Negroponte
Chairman and Co-Founder, MIT Media Laboratory
Wiesner Professor of Media Technology
Chairman, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
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EVENT HOST: Technology Review
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[MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK FOR ALL]
Richard Locke moderates this discussion on overseas apparel factories
and the systemic challenges to address working conditions and fair wages
for workers.
MODERATOR:
Richard M. Locke
Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science
PANELISTS:
Hannah Jones
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Nike
Scott Nova
Executive Director, Workers Rights Consortium
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EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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IN THE PIPELINE:
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
City Design and Development Forum Fall 05
Kristina Ford
former New Orleans Director of City Planning
[REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO RE-ENERGIZE THE PLANNING
PROFESSION?]
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