Mrs. PND returned from London this weekend with a pile of papers including The Times which I don't read now because of their pay wall. The higher brow UK papers like The Times, Independent, Telegraph and Guardian have always been a joy to read whenever I am back in the UK. On weekends it is not uncommon to go through four editions of some combination of these newspapers where perspectives...
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Château de Chanteloup, (Martell) France 1966It really hasn't changed much and you can still have dinner there.Another weekly image from my archive. Click on it to make it larger.In addition to the images I've posted on Flickr and those I've periodically posted on PND, I have now produced a Big Blurb...
Re-post from November 19, 2009 I was enamored with the airline industry as I grew up and close readers will know I’ve always traveled a lot. Out of business school I interviewed with three airlines in their pricing departments where newly hired MBA’s went to learn the business. In that role, staff managed pricing of airline seats to maximize revenue per flight. Remembering that once a flight left...
Monday, September 24, 2012
MOOC Coursera continues to add providers to its platform with a big expansion noted in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.The new partners come in a mix of shapes and sizes, comprising state flagships like the University of Maryland at College Park, liberal-arts colleges like Wesleyan University, specialized institutions including the Berklee College of Music, and foreign institutions like the University...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Kabul girl and her mother 1973This is a spooky image taken out of our car window as we drove by. (That's the door edge on the right). The girl is smiling for my father and perhaps catches a glimpse of one of the three boys in the car but it is the mother standing behind this girl that you wonder about. ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
If employers won't value for profit education what's the prospect? (WaPo): Education researchers have actually conducted a number of studies about this. As of a few years ago, the findings were pretty bleak for the industry. A literature review in 2009 found that ”all scholarly research to date has concluded that the ‘gatekeepers’ [human resources managers, executives, etc.] have an overall negative...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Three directors of University Presses take to Inside Higher Ed to discuss the realities of publishing in today's academic environment (IHEd):It is self-evident that the books and journals we publish benefit faculty in their roles as authors, researchers, and teachers. Less evident is that our conduct of peer review and the luster of our imprints together support the tenure and promotion system that...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Arthur Ashe, Flushing Meadows 1972Another weekly image from my archive. Click on it to make it larger.In addition to the images I've posted on Flickr and those I've periodically posted on PND, I have now produced a Big Blurb Book: From the Archive 1960 -1980 of some of the images I really thought were...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A re-post originally from November 9, 2009: There is a self-publishing conference in NYC this weekend which reminded me of a project I worked on several years ago. After reading an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review about defining a company's corporate strategy, I decided to use the ideas in...
Monday, September 3, 2012
Kevin Carey of Washington Monthly takes a look at investments in the education technology space. (WM):Last August, Marc Andreessen, the man whose Netscape Web browser ignited the original dot-com boom and who is now one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capitalists, wrote a much-discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. His argument was that “software is eating the world.” At a time...
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