Systems and Knowledge Management From his office window overlooking the main floor of the Harvard Cooperative Society‚ CEO Jerry Murphy can glance down and see custom- ers shopping. 19 They make their way through the narrow aisles of the crowded department store‚ picking up a sweatshirt here‚ trying on a baseball cap there‚ checking out the endless array of merchandise that bears the Harvard University insignia. Watching Murphy‚ you can well imagine the Co-op’s found- ers‚ who started
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Art Credit Design 84 Harvard Business Review 1237 Brown.indd 84 | June 2008 | hbr.org 5/1/08 8:45:11 PM Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products‚ services‚ processes – and even strategy. Thinking by Tim Brown Photos courtesy of IDEO T HOMAS EDISON created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention‚ but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick
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Born in 1945‚ Robert Gray is an Australian poet renowned for his imagistic style‚ drawing strength from his fastidious concern for the precision of language and a meticulous contemplation of physical existence. Gray’s works are unconventional in structure‚ and prevalent throughout his poems are the recurring themes of humanism‚ consumerism and naturalism‚ peppered with allusions to personal experiences. Gray’s thematic concerns arise from his personal context‚ alongside his love of the Australian
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Cobain‚ Vincent Van Gogh and David Foster Wallace struggled with deep depression and mental illness all their lives‚ their works and pursuits continuously exacerbating their state of mind‚ until they ultimately decided that suicide was the only option. Robert Frost was also affected by the darkness of depression. But he‚ through his constant communion with the thing he writes so much about‚ was able to overcome it. The poems "Dust of Snow" and "Stopping
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What features of LECO account for its long-term success in the US? There are several factors that have contributed to the long-term success of Lincoln Electric in the US. Most notably‚ the productivity of the labor force and the efficiency of operations have generated a competitive advantage over the market. Existing and potential competitors are not able to produce at the same low costs and subsequently are not able to offer competitive prices to the market‚ thus increasing LECO ’s market share
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The Laboratory’ ’The Laboratory’ by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue that tells the story of a woman’s plot to murder her romantic rival. The form in which Browning has written this poem subtly reveal aspects of the female speaker whilst allowing the reader to make their own personal judgement on her behaviour and character‚ which would commonly be that she is a jealous‚ obsessed‚ blood-thirsty and sadistic woman. The speaker in the poem demonstrates signs of insanity and instability
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The Harvard Management Company and Inflation Protected Bonds The Harvard Management Company is an entity wholly owned by Harvard University and it is responsible for managing Harvard’s endowment and pension assets. At the end of the second quarter of 2000‚ Harvard Management Co. oversaw the management of $19 billion‚ the majority of it managed internally by Harvard’s investment professionals. The endowment’s goal is to provide a real return of 6%-7%‚ of which 4%-5% would be distributed annually
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In Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse”‚ the narrator sympathizes and takes notice of a little mouse. In this work‚ the mouse is a part of the outside world‚ while the narrator is a part of the inside world; however‚ they are both “fellow mortals” (Burns 12). The person’s identifying with the mouse and elevating it to the level of a human being signifies that the “inside world” and the “outside world” exist together and truly are not two separate “worlds.” The mouse is able to create an inside world within
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One of America ’s most popular poets‚ Robert Frost‚ achieved major recognition and reached the widest possible audience. His direct and easy to read poems make him one of the most recognized poets in the country. Robert Frost has the ability to make his poems accessible to anyone reading them. His use of everyday vernacular and traditional form of poetry makes it easy for readers‚ but understanding them is a different story. Robert Frost ’s poems are very connotative in nature‚ making them very profound
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The artwork that I have chosen to critique is by an American artist named Robert Motherwell‚ (1915 -1991). The particular piece I have chosen is called "Open" # 150 in black and cream 1970 acrylic on canvas 69 x 204 1/4 inches at the Modern Museum. This artwork is a symmetrical balanced abstract painting that is about 41 years old and is horizontal in its organization and is made up of one neutral color cream rectangle inside at the top of one large intense black color rectangle. Counting a total
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