A burgeoning crop of specialist master's degrees is luring professionals away from MBAs in an effort to meet the needs of particular industries
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A burgeoning crop of specialist master's degrees is luring professionals away from MBAs in an effort to meet the needs of particular industries
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Demand for the GSB programme at its regional Singapore campus is intensifying as its MBA attracts record applications
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Insead and Wharton are to extend a partnership that has helped broaden perspectives for faculty and students alike
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Problems experienced by up to 60 per cent of MBA students at top European business schools led to the formation of a company that has developed a different approach to loans
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Click here for EUROPA press release, 5 June 2008.
More than 2,000 students and 450 teaching staff
from outside Europe have been selected to receive an Erasmus Mundus scholarship
for the academic year 2008/09. These scholarships will allow them to study in
Europe for one or two years and obtain a Master's degree from one of the 103
top-quality Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses offered by consortia of European
higher education institutions.
In 2008, a total number of 17 new partnerships of Erasmus Mundus Masters
Consortia with higher education institutions in non-European countries were
selected. Altogether, they encompass 62 universities from 28 different third
countries. These 17 partnerships foresee an outgoing mobility of an estimated
477 European students and 192 European scholars over the next two years. The
partnerships allow European higher education institutions, scholars and students
to strengthen their ties with other higher education environments in the
world...
The second phase of Erasmus Mundus (2009-13) is expected to start in 2009
with a planned total budget of 950 million euros. Its main new features are the
inclusion of joint doctoral programmes, increased scholarships for European
students and an intensified structural cooperation with third-country higher
education institutions. In addition, the new proposal integrates a mobility
scheme for all levels of higher education.
One of the characteristic features of the Erasmus Mundus programme is that
student grantees follow their courses in at least two universities located in
different European countries. This gives them the additional opportunity to
learn about European cultures, languages and academic systems.
On 6-7 June 2008 the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in Italy, will
host the 4th Erasmus Mundus Student Seminar and the 4th
General Assembly of the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA - www.em-a.eu). About 200 participants are expected
including representatives from the European institutions, Italian, Slovenian and
French national authorities, Erasmus Mundus course coordinators, national
contact points and, of course, more than a hundred students and alumni from the
entire world.
For more information on Erasmus Mundus:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html
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Click here for EUROPA press release, 5 June 2008.
More than 2,000 students and 450 teaching staff
from outside Europe have been selected to receive an Erasmus Mundus scholarship
for the academic year 2008/09. These scholarships will allow them to study in
Europe for one or two years and obtain a Master's degree from one of the 103
top-quality Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses offered by consortia of European
higher education institutions.
In 2008, a total number of 17 new partnerships of Erasmus Mundus Masters
Consortia with higher education institutions in non-European countries were
selected. Altogether, they encompass 62 universities from 28 different third
countries. These 17 partnerships foresee an outgoing mobility of an estimated
477 European students and 192 European scholars over the next two years. The
partnerships allow European higher education institutions, scholars and students
to strengthen their ties with other higher education environments in the
world...
The second phase of Erasmus Mundus (2009-13) is expected to start in 2009
with a planned total budget of 950 million euros. Its main new features are the
inclusion of joint doctoral programmes, increased scholarships for European
students and an intensified structural cooperation with third-country higher
education institutions. In addition, the new proposal integrates a mobility
scheme for all levels of higher education.
One of the characteristic features of the Erasmus Mundus programme is that
student grantees follow their courses in at least two universities located in
different European countries. This gives them the additional opportunity to
learn about European cultures, languages and academic systems.
On 6-7 June 2008 the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in Italy, will
host the 4th Erasmus Mundus Student Seminar and the 4th
General Assembly of the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA - www.em-a.eu). About 200 participants are expected
including representatives from the European institutions, Italian, Slovenian and
French national authorities, Erasmus Mundus course coordinators, national
contact points and, of course, more than a hundred students and alumni from the
entire world.
For more information on Erasmus Mundus:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html
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Press release of Media-Newswire.com - June 5, 2008
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| 0 comment(s) Press release of Media-Newswire.com - June 5, 2008 function startReloadTimer(interval) {setTimeout(reloadPage, interval);}function reloadPage() {try {var reloadUrl = "/news/reload?" + Math.random();Goo_SendMessage(reloadUrl, undefined, undefined, reloadPageCallback);} catch(e) {// If we failed to contact news, try again in a minute HANOVER, N.H.-Deans from business schools in Eastern Europe, Spain, and the "Globalization is changing Deans from more than
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| 0 comment(s) Jeffrey Immelt, GE's CEO, has received a lot of publicity recently for fostering "imagination breakthroughs" by encouraging managers to think deeply about innovations that will insure GE's longer-term success. He has vowed that he will protect those working on the breakthroughs from the "budget slashers" focused on short-term success. Questions that this effort raises include: (1) Why so much publicity? (2) Isn't "deep thinking" what leaders are paid to do? and (3) Why do these kinds of effort require so much protection? In their new book, Marketing Metaphoria, Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman suggest some answers to the questions. In decrying the lack of what they call "deep thinking" among managers and especially those responsible for marketing, they suggest some things that get in its way. Among them are: (1) reluctance to take risk, especially when short-term performance is at stake, (2) the fear of disruption resulting from "thinking differently and deeply," (3) the potential psychological cost of changing one's mind resulting from deep thinking, and (4) the lack of information providing deep insights on which to base deep thinking. According to the Zaltmans, nearly all research techniques commonly used today probe humans only at their conscious level, that the subconscious (offering deep insights) really determines behavior, and that explains why humans don't behave as they say they will, whether in buying or other behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds can be based on insights gained from listening in a disciplined way for metaphors that relatively small numbers of people (consumers, managers, public servants, etc.) use in the course of extended, probing interviews. In these interviews, the object is to use "surface metaphors," like "I am drowning in debt," to identify "metaphor themes," like "Money is like liquid," and the associated "deep metaphor," in this case "resource." They claim that just seven deep metaphors—balance (equilibrium), transformation (changing states or status), journey (as in life), container (keeping things in and keeping things out), connection (feelings of belonging or exclusion), resource (providing survival), and control—describe 70 percent of our inner feelings. The objective is to find deep metaphors that individuals share in common (a true market segment or a basis for resolving a confIict) rather than differences. If we would just take the time to explore them we would be able to realize such things as more substantial, farsighted, successful new product introductions (such as the hybrid auto ten years ago at Toyota); more successful conflict resolution; and more significant innovation, Ã la GE, in general. This raises several questions: Have the Zaltmans hit on a basic problem of leadership and management today? Are there appropriate responses other than the one that GE is pursuing? What is your organization doing to combat the absence of deep thinking in decision-making? What are you doing to combat it in thinking about your own life inside and outside the organization? What do you think?
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| 0 comment(s) Sen. Charles E. Grassley is seeking additional information about four liver transplants performed at the UCLA Medical Center involving patients who were suspected members or associates of Japanese organized-crime groups, the Los Angeles Times reported. Two of the recipients made subsequent donations of $100,000 to UCLA. The university and the surgeon who performed the operations, Ronald W. Busuttil, have released statements saying they do not make moral judgments about patients. In a letter to UCLA, Senator Grassley, a Republican of Iowa, wrote, “While surgeons do not seek to pass moral judgment on the patients they treat, Americans hope at the very least that foreign criminal figures wait in line along with the rest of us.” The operations took place from 2000 to 2004, a period when more than 100 patients in the Los Angeles area died waiting for liver transplants. —Charles Huckabee
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| 0 comment(s) Yale University plans to expand its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent by establishing two new residential colleges, the university’s president, Richard C. Levin, announced in a letter to alumni. Pointing to the large number of talented applicants that Yale turns away each year, Mr. Levin noted that the university’s last significant increase came with the admission of women, in 1969, and that undergraduate enrollment had remained at about 5,200 since 1978. The new residential colleges are expected to open in 2013. To pay for the expansion, the university is also increasing the goal of its Yale Tomorrow fund-raising campaign by $500-million, to $3.5-billion. —Charles Huckabee
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| 0 comment(s) Both hairdressing and the army are unfashionably hierarchical professions, but their practitioners are amongst the happiest with their jobs, writes Lucy Kellaway
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| 0 comment(s) Neville Isdell, chief executive, refocused Coca-Cola by listening to top managers and drawing up a new manifesto
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| 0 comment(s) Corning, a company of many serious scientific achievements, sticks by its innovations until it finds a viable application
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| 0 comment(s) If he is to reach the White House, the Democratic nominee will need to make his policies – on Iraq, on Iran, on the economy and healthcare – more detailed. He must show a franker recognition of the costs and benefits than he has shown so far, writes Clive Crook
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| 0 comment(s) In terms of global monetary policy, we are in the middle of a shift from a unipolar to a bipolar world, writes Wolfgang Münchau
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| 0 comment(s) As proponents of multilateralism, Europeans are best placed to make the case to China for working through international institutions, writes Charles Grant
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| 0 comment(s) Energy ministers expressed 'serious concerns' about soaring oil prices and urged producers to lift production through greater investment and provide more open supply data
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| 0 comment(s) The application deadlines have started to appear. Essay questions can't be too far behind. In any case and in no particular order, here are recently announced application deadlines:
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| 0 comment(s) Bryan M. Johnston, who recently was selected to become the next president of Saint Martin’s University, died in his sleep at his home in Salem, Ore., on Friday night, the university has announced. Mr. Johnston, who was 59, was to have taken office at Saint Martin’s, a Roman Catholic institution in Washington State, on July 1. The cause of his death was not known, The Oregonian reported. Mr. Johnston had served in several administrative roles at Willlamette University, in Salem, including as its interim president in 1997 and 1998. He also had been a state legislator in Oregon and was head of a division of its Department of Human Services. “We are deeply saddened by the news of Bryan’s death,” Douglas M. Astolfi, Saint Martin’s current president, said in the university’s statement. “More than a loss for the university community, this is a tragedy for Bryan’s family. Our prayers are with his wife and four children.” —Charles Huckabee
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| 0 comment(s) A well-known Harvard child psychiatrist may have violated federal and university conflict-of-interest rules by belatedly reporting to university officials that he had earned at least $1.6-million in consulting fees from drug makers, The New York Times reported, citing information given to investigators working on behalf of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, a Republican of Iowa. The senator’s office looked at information from the psychiatrist, Joseph Biederman, and a colleague in the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School, Timothy E. Wilens, in relation to federal grants they received. Dr. Wilens, like Dr. Biederman, belatedly reported earning at least $1.6-million from 2000 to 2007, the Times reported. Another colleague, Thomas Spencer, reported earning at least $1-million after he was pressured by investigators, the paper said. Senator Grassley suggested that even the belated disclosures might understate the researchers’ outside income, saying their data did not match payment information obtained from the companies. “In a few cases, the doctors disclosed more money than the drug companies reported,” he said in remarks published in the Congressional Record. “But in most cases, the doctors reported less money.” A Harvard spokesman told the Times that the information regarding the doctors had been referred to a university conflict committee for review. Dr. Biederman is widely known for research that has supported the use of antipsychotic drugs in children. He said in a statement to the Times that he took conflict-of-interest policies “very seriously.” Dr. Wilens and Dr. Spencer told the newspaper they thought they had complied with conflict-of-interest rules. —Audrey Williams June
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| 0 comment(s) A German school is spinning off a novel fund management operation staffed by many of its former students
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| 0 comment(s) The Netherlands' new train timetable was designed by a team of academics and logistics experts using sophisticated computer wizardry
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| 0 comment(s) For many MBA students a 'green' personal life is more important than working for a company with environmentally friendly policies
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| 0 comment(s) Click here for article of BBC News, 3 June 2008 University College London, the Open University and Trinity Educational content is already available in the United States through the But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material The service will include recordings of lectures from leading academics...
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| 0 comment(s) Click here for article of BBC News, 3 June 2008 University College London, the Open University and Trinity Educational content is already available in the United States through the But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material The service will include recordings of lectures from leading academics...
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| 0 comment(s) It is important that we move quickly to adapt the regulatory system to address the vulnerabilities exposed by this financial crisis, says Timothy Geithner
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| 0 comment(s) It is June 8, 2008 and I'm 2.5 months away from the time grad schools starts. I need to be in Arizona by August 19. We will go through orientation on the 23 or so, and I can't move in the dorms any earlier then that...
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| 0 comment(s) The lucrative Indian legal market could be opened up in as little as three years if political conditions are favourable, the UK justice minister has claimed
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| 0 comment(s) Updated at 10 p.m. The U.S. Coast Guard has found the body of a missing crew member from a Texas A&M University at Galveston sailboat that capsized during a race from Galveston to Veracruz, Mexico, the Houston Chronicle reported. The dead crewman, Roger Stone, of Clear Lake, Tex., was the sailboat’s second safety officer. He was found in the vessel’s wreckage. According to an account of the disaster in the Houston newspaper, Mr. Stone discovered the boat was taking on water, made sure everyone else aboard got off safely, but was unable to do so himself. “We now know that Roger Stone died a hero in the classic sense of the word,” said R. Bowen Loftin, chief executive officer of the Galveston campus. A Coast Guard helicopter located the five other sailors at about 2 a.m. today after an 18-hour search. They were sunburned and dehydrated, but listed in good condition at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The rescued crew members, who stayed afloat with four life vests, were another safety officer, Steven Conway, and four students from the Houston area: Ross Busby, Steven Guy, Joe Savana, and Travis Wright. “I’ve talked to all of them, and they’re all doing fine,” said Mr. Loftin. “They were extremely happy to be alive.” —Katherine Mangan
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| 0 comment(s) We, at I AM MBA @ SPU,Thailand, are starting Green/White MBA in Bangkok, Thailand. The ways to go are still needed to do more research, find out the possibility and the practicle useful to all stakeholders here in Bangkok. If you have mor...
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| 0 comment(s) The US president will push European leaders to step up financial sanctions against Iran, in what is likely to be his last extended presidential visit to the continent
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| 0 comment(s) A battle between BP and its Russian partners for control of TNK-BP, the oil venture, overshadowed Russia's efforts to court some of the world's biggest companies
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| 0 comment(s) Pressure increased on the Bank of England after figures showing manufacturers are facing the highest price rises for raw materials for more than 20 years, prompted some to speculate that the next move in interest rates could be upwards
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| 0 comment(s) The Illinois Supreme Court has declined to review a jury’s finding that Knox College’s negligence contributed to the 1998 murder of a student in a campus building, the Peoria Journal Star reported. The victim, Andrea Racibozynski, died after another student, Clyde Best, knocked her down a stairwell and beat her with a brick. Mr. Best, who pleaded guilty but mentally ill in 1999, was sentenced to 60 years in prison. In 2000, Ms. Racibozynski’s family filed a civil wrongful-death lawsuit against Knox. The jury awarded the family more than $1-million, finding the college negligent for failing to provide adequate lighting and security in the stairwell where the assault took place. In their subsequent appeals, lawyers for Knox College argued that the institution had adequate security and could not have prevented the murder by installing more lights. —Eric Hoover
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| 0 comment(s) The president's volatile approval ratings are hurtling downwards as activists try to rally 1m to demand his resignation and renegotiation of a deal with the US on beef imports
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| 0 comment(s) The O2 staff who were dismissed were ahead of the game. They should have been made heads of sales and marketing, not fired, argues Michael Skapinker
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| 0 comment(s) The fact that, in the US, black could have become the 'colour of hope' is a source of both self-examination and admiration in France, writes Dominique Moïsi
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| 0 comment(s) The island is passing on to China its experience recovering from the big Nantou earthquake that hit on September 21 1999
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| 0 comment(s) Volumes sank last year as rising agricultural commodity prices – particularly for wheat, corn and rice – hit donors' budgets, according to the UN
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| 0 comment(s) We need to set the country on a path that sees spending growing more slowly than the economy, and the share of income taken by the state falling, says George Osborne
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| 0 comment(s) At least twelve people, including a French engineer and members of the Algerian security forces, were killed in eastern Algeria at the weekend when two roadside bombs went off within half an hour of each other.
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| 0 comment(s) The biggest reason for the Russian government to get serious about the rule of law is the welfare of its own citizens. Wealthy foreign businessmen can look after themselves. It is ordinary Russians who suffer most from a lawless environment, writes Gideon Rachman
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| 0 comment(s) The Tory leader has returned his party to the political mainstream – no mean feat. But it is easier to squander credibility than reclaim it, writes Philip Stephens
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| 0 comment(s) Bernard Kouchner, France's foreign minister, says the rest of the EU would look at the Irish with 'gigantic incomprehension' if they rejected the bloc's Lisbon reform treaty
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| 0 comment(s) Marshall L. Fisher, director of Wharton's Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management, has been researching issues related to retail supply chain strategy for many years. In this interview, Fisher highlights some of the challenges facing global procurement, and he discusses the example of Luen Thai, a Chinese company that built a giant "supply-chain city," becoming a one-stop shop for clothing manufacturers looking to outsource to low-cost producers.
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| 0 comment(s) Initiatives for staff care under employee assistance, or well-being programmes, can cover the exotic as well as the mundane
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| 0 comment(s) London has played host to two big change management spectaculars, writes Stefan Stern
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| 0 comment(s) After carrying its channels to distant corners of the globe, the music group is now focused on making them profitable
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| 0 comment(s) Barack Obama described John McCain's proposed tax cuts as "outrageous" and said they would amount to $5,700bn over the next decade – more than double the cost of George W. Bush's tax cuts
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| 0 comment(s) Britain will lead the fight against growing European calls for a crackdown on executive pay and bonuses, says Kitty Ussher, the Treasury minister
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| 0 comment(s) A close associate of Mervyn King, Bank of England governor, is expected to become the new internal member of the monetary policy committee
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| 0 comment(s) As we gradually get closer and closer to graduating many people like to bring up the idea of money and getting paid. Lets be honest with each other we are all partly doing this because we want a bigger salary and more prestige. That ...
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| 0 comment(s) Jerusalem — Some Israeli academics are not too happy that Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer, authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, are scheduled to speak on Thursday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The title of their talk: “Is the ‘Israel lobby’ good for Israel?” Both men have also courted controversy in the United States with their argument that Israel wields disproportionate influence on the United States’ foreign policy. Mr. Walt is a professor of international relations at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Mr. Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “Their decision to come here means they are looking for a good fight,” said Akiva Eldar, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, told The Guardian, a British newspaper. Gerald Steinberg, a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, won support from some colleagues when he suggested in an e-mail message that the American authors should address “an empty room.” “Their articles and books are not academic,” Mr Steinberg told The Chronicle. “It’s not research, it’s a polemic. It doesn’t belong in a university.” But Menachem Klein, a colleague of Mr. Steinberg’s at Bar-Ilan, said it was inappropriate for Israelis to call for shunning visitors when Israeli academics are themselves the targets of attempted boycotts by British lecturers and others. “I am against boycotting anyone,” Mr. Klein said in an interview. “Academia is about arguing, free debate, and free speech. If you have good arguments, go there and debate.” —Matthew Kalman
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| 0 comment(s) In a dramatic U-turn, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, has called on Marxist guerrillas to cease their fight against the Colombian government and hand over hundreds of hostages for nothing in return
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| 0 comment(s) Malaysian prime minister tells the FT he will deflect public anger by improving the country's social safety net and cutting government spending
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| 0 comment(s) Click here for Times Higher Education, 5 June 2008 Does the Google generation, which has grown ...illustrates the immense gulf between the world of old-time ...So is it not just a particular generation but the whole academic world ....None of this suggests a very sophisticated level of searching skills
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| 0 comment(s) Click here for Times Higher Education, 5 June 2008 Does the Google generation, which has grown ...illustrates the immense gulf between the world of old-time ...So is it not just a particular generation but the whole academic world ....None of this suggests a very sophisticated level of searching skills
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| 0 comment(s) Japan will launch an experimental carbon trading scheme for industry this autumn, says prime minister Yasuo Fukuda, promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 per cent by 2050
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| 0 comment(s) Policy analysts, college leaders, and government officials from more than 20 states gathered in Charlottesville, Va., today to discuss the national purposes of American higher education and to identify ways to overhaul public policy to meet the needs of the nation’s changing population. The conference was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. The groups plan to publish a report and recommendations that emerged from the day of conversations. Detailed information about the event, including video, is available here. Gordon Davies, the former director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the state’s coordinating board, concluded the gathering by saying that the group had reached a broad-based consensus on the key higher-education issues facing the United States this century. Those issues include the need to improve workforce training, to enact policies that support and foster lifelong learning as most states’ populations age and grow more diverse, to alter reward systems for institutions and states, to support institutional research that is focused on states’ needs, and to foster institutions’ engagement in their local communities in ways that seek to improve social and economic well being. Mr. Davies also emphasized that while the group articulated a set of national purposes for higher education, most solutions for improving policies must be developed locally. —Sara Hebel
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| 0 comment(s) Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, believes that the danger of a "substantial downturn" in the US economy has abated over the past month, but that inflation risks are increasing
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| 0 comment(s) Several pieces of art stolen two weeks ago from the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology have been recovered, according to the Canadian Press. Some of the items apparently were found at a house in a Vancouver suburb. The police are not releasing any further information because the investigation is continuing. University officials were relieved to hear the items were intact and were waiting to learn what pieces had been recovered. The theft sparked fears that the works, which included jewelry and other gold items by Mexican artists and the Haida sculptor Bill Reid, would either disappear into a private collection or be melted down. The university has offered a $50,000 reward, and an insurance company has put up an undisclosed additional amount for information. CBC News reported last week that members of the museum’s security staff were hoodwinked the night of the heist after two cameras went off line and a caller, supposedly from the alarm company, told them there was a malfunction and to ignore any alarms. The thief or thieves broke in later, while the sole guard on duty was taking a smoking break. Cameras that were still working did pick up some shadowy figures, but because the lights are turned off to save energy, the footage was not very useful. —Karen Birchard
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| 0 comment(s) According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, intellectual property in this country is worth more than $5 trillion—about twice the amount of the current federal budget. The question: Are companies taking advantage of this value? Not as much as they could be, is the answer from Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy. "It has become more essential than ever that firms have a clear policy for maximizing the value of their intellectual property," he says. We asked Lerner to discuss current issues in IP and also describe an Executive Education course he will teach this summer on the subject. Sean Silverthorne: Do you think companies in general do an effective job at monetizing intellectual property or using it to gain competitive advantage? Josh Lerner: There is a tremendous diversity of responses to the growing importance of intellectual property on the part of firms. In many cases, firms have ignored the increased role of intellectual property in today's economy for too long, and have failed to adopt strategies to monetize their holdings. In other cases, however, companies have adopted "scorched earth" policies that aim to confront and litigate with rivals about intellectual property, which have often proved to be counterproductive as well. Q: Why is it important today for firms to focus on their IP? A: In many nations, intellectual property has become increasingly important. In part, this change has reflected the changing mixture of the economy, with the development of knowledge-intensive industries such as software and biotechnology. This change has also been driven by policy shifts, which have sometimes naively associated stronger intellectual property protection with more innovation. Global treaties and conventions have played a role as well. As a result of these shifts, it has become more essential than ever that firms have a clear policy for maximizing the value of their intellectual property. Q: How effective are copyright law and patent law, both here and globally, in protecting IP? What are the weaknesses that companies need to think about? A: The range of patent and copyright legislation is vast, and the complexity of policies in even a single country is substantial, so it is hard to generalize. But it is clear that intellectual property laws are not a cure-all. In many cases, rivals can "patent around" even the broadest award, and copyright law is typically even narrower. Even when a firm can prevent a rival from undertaking a directly competitive product, if the rival introduces an inferior substitute, it may damage consumers' perceptions and depress sales in the entire product category. As a result, intellectual property protection must be seen as not a cure-all, but rather as a tool with both strengths and weaknesses. Q: What companies would you consider the exemplars in developing effective strategies for their IP? What makes these strategies so effective? A: We can consider a few examples of striking strategies: Q: What is happening in the area of patent pools? Are these becoming more popular and, if so, in which industries? A: In a patent pool, firms blend their patents with those of other firms. These pools allow users to access a number of firms' patents simultaneously, thereby avoiding the "patent thicket." In many cases, the pooling agreements also specify the pricing schedule in the agreement that establishes the pool, assuring that no party attempts to extract very high fees or to increase its fees after users are locked in. Patent pools date back as far as the 1850s but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the scope of these activities is likely to grow in future years. In many industries, leaders have expressed frustration about the proliferation of patent thickets—the large number of overlapping awards—and the ensuing rise of costly and time-consuming litigation. In many cases, technology sharing has been proposed as a remedy. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for decades, they have been seen as a potential solution for increasingly prevalent patent licensing issues elsewhere, such in new biotechnology-related fields. For instance, a great deal of interest has surrounded proposals to use patent pools to address the multiplicity of rights that are slowing research in critical diseases such as AIDS and breast cancer. Patent pools are only one way in which firms share their technology with each other. The rapid growth of open source software over the course of this decade has been highlighted in numerous press accounts. The multibillion dollar initial public offerings of Red Hat and VA Linux, IBM's embrace of open source and its investment of billions of dollars into these projects, and the recent (though qualified) embrace of Linux by Microsoft, formerly a bitter opponent: all these events have been extensively documented. What is much less well appreciated, however, is that open source is only the tip of the iceberg of the technology sharing that is reshaping high-technology industries. Patent pools, standard-setting organizations, and technology licensing efforts are having a profound effect on how firms seek to exploit new discoveries. Q: You are teaching an Executive Education course this summer on Strategies for Protecting and Monetizing Intellectual Property. What are some of the key takeaways you hope to leave with your participants? A: The course will be an attempt to explore this exciting and dynamic arena. Its key goals are: Sean Silverthorne is editor of HBS Working Knowledge.
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| 0 comment(s) UK Business Schools have grown rapidly over the last forty years. Despite a tentative start, where many commentators (including some vice-chancellors) appeared to question the status of management as an academic discipline, business schools have no
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| 0 comment(s) The first session is due to start on the 9th and 10th of October 2008 and will focus on an overview for marketers in business schools and higher education, the first lunch-to-lunch session willl focus on how to preapre a winning integrated market
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| 0 comment(s) In partnership with EFMD: Programme for Business School Deans.The first cohort has recently visited six business schools Boston including: Babson, Bentley, Boston University ,Harvard, MIT Sloan and North Eastern.The second IDP cohort starts in Dec
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| 0 comment(s) Companion is the highest category of membership and is awarded only to individuals who have a distinguished record of achievement in senior management. Companions form an exclusive group of the InstituteÂ’s membership and include other leading busin
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| 0 comment(s) The IDP comprises three modules of 2-3 days each in different countries. The sessions focus on high level strategic discussions, benchmarking and new developments in the global business and management education field. A cohort of 22 business school
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| 0 comment(s) Please click here to access the new Guide.
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| 0 comment(s) Last year, Rochdale entrepreneurs Paul and Jerry set up JPM ECO Logistics Limited, an eco-friendly haulage company which runs its vehicles on 100 per cent bio-diesel. Although they knew they had a sound business premise, they admit they weren't bus
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| 0 comment(s) The £6 million programme has six
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| 0 comment(s) Members of the ABS Executive are meeting with Rama Thirunamachandran, Director for Research and Knowledge Transfer, HEFCE, and Alan Palmer, Policy Officer, Learning and Teaching, HEFCE, on 15th January 2008 at ABS to discuss the Research Excellence F
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| 0 comment(s) Lorraine from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria was nominated for the award after winning the North West regional NES award. She impressed judges with her company, One to One Personal Care, which focuses on looking after elderly and disabled people who ne
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| 0 comment(s) The title of companion was bestowed upon:Professor Sir George Bain (formerly of London Business School)Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (Judge Business School, Cambridge)Professor Peter McKiernan (School of Management, University of St Andrews)Profess
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| 0 comment(s) The IDP has proved a popular choice, all the places have been snapped up -; plans are being made for next year's programme which will feature trips to business schools in : Dubai, Spain and Solvenia. For further information please contact Julie Davie
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| 0 comment(s) The Web Works project evaluated 18 UK business school websites across ten key performance criteria and 30 further criteria dealing with access to and interest in the information provided. Interactive focus groups were held with 270 current and pro
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| 0 comment(s) The ABS is delighted that over 100 people have registered for this years Conference and AGM.If you would like to register as a day delegate or would like us to source alternative accomodation please contact: Vicky Reid, Events Manager on: 020 7388 00
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| 0 comment(s) The
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| 0 comment(s) 'Talent Wars: the international market for academic staff' explores the international dimensions of academic staff recruitment and provides comparisons between UK and key competitor countries.The main findings include:There is not an academic 'brain-
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| 0 comment(s) The three new departments are: The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), which has been formed from the HE, FE and Skills Directorates of the former DfES and the Science and Innovation directorates of the former DTI; the Departme
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| 0 comment(s) Upon being elected, Jonathan Slack said:"I am delighted to be given the opportunity to Chair such a prestigious group of national and international associations, particularly at a time when the ?Bologna? process is gaining momentum and impacting
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| 0 comment(s) In this year?s HR Top 100 Most Influential compiled by Human Resources Magazine in association with Ceridian, Kai Peters is the joint second highest climber, going up 52 places from 78th last year. The list of HR practitioners, academics, authors, co
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| 0 comment(s) The new scholarships will enable women owner-managers to participate in Cranfield School of Management?s acclaimed Business Growth and Development Programme (BGP), the leading programme of its kind in the UK.; ;The Scholarships are being provided by
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| 0 comment(s) This new online resource is free, time saving, comprehensive, flexible and updated regularly by ABS members.*Click here to search for courses now!*The directory appears as the top non-sponsored listing on Google and promises to be essential for under
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| 0 comment(s) We are proud to have worked with the Independent on producing the Guide to Business Schools for 2007, please click here to view the pdf.
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| 0 comment(s) A home in Spain was the inspiration for Geert Duizendstraal's property business
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| 0 comment(s) The new generation of nomadic entrepreneurs, nicknamed the 'kinetic elite', work out of hotel lobbies, airport lounges and cafes, writes Luke Johnson
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| 0 comment(s) An outsider acting as a mentor may be able to see what the owner of a company cannot
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| 0 comment(s) With brutal efficiency, the oil price is beginning to duff up a monster of the
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| 0 comment(s) R&D bosses and academics struggle to create a more entrepreneurial culture
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| 0 comment(s) Here is a crisp new book on managing costs which urges its readers to be unflinching and persistent in their attack on costs
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| 0 comment(s) Anheuser-Busch, the owner of Budweiser beer, last night received an
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| 0 comment(s) Global oil production fell last year for the first time in six years while
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| 0 comment(s) Controversial changes to capital gains tax and the treatment of non-domiciled
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| 0 comment(s) US banking stocks hit a five-year low yesterday, as the financial markets
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| 0 comment(s) Leading shareholders in Bradford & Bingley (B&B) are considering
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| 0 comment(s) The British banking sector was thrown into fresh uncertainty yesterday as
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| 0 comment(s) Towards the end of last year, as financial panic about the global credit
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| 0 comment(s) The fall in the CPI, which contrasts with a rising trend across much of the globe, will provide some relief to policy makers who have declared high inflation their main challenge
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this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
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|| "an unknown version";
this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
};
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return data[i].identity;
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*/
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string: "navigator.vendor",
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identity: "Safari"
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prop: "window.opera",
identity: "Opera"
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string: "navigator.vendor",
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string: "navigator.vendor",
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{
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Firefox",
identity: "Firefox"
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{ // for newer Netscapes (6+)
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Netscape",
identity: "Netscape"
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string: "navigator.userAgent",
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identity: "Explorer",
versionSearch: "MSIE"
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{
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Gecko",
identity: "Mozilla",
versionSearch: "rv"
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{ // for older Netscapes (4-)
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Mozilla",
identity: "Netscape",
versionSearch: "Mozilla"
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this.dataOS = [
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Win",
identity: "Windows"
},
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Mac",
identity: "Mac"
},
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Linux",
identity: "Linux"
}
]
};
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this.ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;
this.TEXT_NODE = 3;
this.CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
this.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5;
this.ENTITY_NODE = 6;
this.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
this.COMMENT_NODE = 8;
this.DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;
this.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;
this.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
this.NOTATION_NODE = 12;
}
*/
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isMozilla: (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Firefox') != -1) || (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Netscape') != -1) || (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Mozilla') != -1),
isIE: (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Explorer') != -1),
*/
isMozilla: function()
{
if(gBrowserDetect == null)
{
gBrowserDetect = new BrowserDetect();
gBrowserDetect.init();
}
return (gBrowserDetect.browser.search('Firefox') != -1);
},
isIE: function()
{
if(gBrowserDetect == null)
{
gBrowserDetect = new BrowserDetect();
gBrowserDetect.init();
}
return (gBrowserDetect.browser.search('Explorer') != -1);
},
firstElement: function(parentNode, tagName)
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while(node && node.nodeType != 1 /* ELEMENT_NODE */)
{
node = node.nextSibling;
}
if(tagName && node && node.tagName && node.tagName.toLowerCase() != tagName.toLowerCase())
{
node = DomUtils.nextElement(node, tagName);
}
return node;
},
nextElement: function(node, tagName)
{
if(!node)
{
return null;
}
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{
node = node.nextSibling;
}
while(node && node.nodeType != 1 /* ELEMENT_NODE */);
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{
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},
textContent: function(node)
{
var _result = "";
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{
return _result;
}
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xml += "n";
xml += "";
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};
this.dataTypeOf = function (o)
{
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var type = typeof(o);
type = type.toLowerCase();
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{
case "number":
if (Math.round(o) == o)
type = "i4";
else
type = "double";
break;
case "object":
var con = o.constructor;
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type = "date";
else if (con == Array)
type = "array";
else
type = "struct";
break;
}
return type;
};
this.doValueXML = function(type,data)
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var xml = "" + data + "";
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};
this.doBooleanXML = function(data)
{
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};
this.doDateXML = function(data)
{
var xml = "";
xml += dateToISO8601(data);
xml += "";
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};
this.doArrayXML = function(data)
{
var xml = "n";
for (var i = 0; i From : \s*([\w\s\d-'\.]+?)\s*<([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)>", "gi"); \s*
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if (parseResult)
{
var _this = this;
//dump("Name:" + parseResult[1] + " Email:" + parseResult[2] + "n");
var fromNodes = DomUtils.findContentNodes(contentDocument, /From.:./);
for(var i = 0; i
var infoBox = contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[2], parseResult[1], this.HOTMAIL);
}
}
}
}
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* parsing function for Classic Yahoo mail
*/
this.parseYahoo = function(contentDocument)
{
if (contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton'))
return;
var fromRE = new RegExp(">From:(]+>]+> )?"([\w\s\d-'\.]+?)"\s*<([A-Za-z0-9_\-.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)>", "gi"); \s*
var node = null;
var parseResult = null;
var tableNodes = contentDocument.getElementsByTagName('table');
for(var i=0; i
var infoBox = contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[3], parseResult[2], this.YAHOO);
}
}
}
}
}
/**
* parsing function for Yahoo AJAX
*/
this.parseYahooAjax = function(contentDocument)
{
// IE needs to add click event listener on tables. Firefox doesn't need to as we hook up with "pageview" event
if(DomUtils.isIE())
{
// add event listener to message selection table
var messageSelectionTable = DomUtils.getElementById(contentDocument, "mainTablePane");
if(messageSelectionTable && DomUtils.getAttribute(messageSelectionTable, "eventAttached") != "true")
{
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(messageSelectionTable, "click",
function() { _this.delayParse(_this.parseYahooAjax, contentDocument, 1000);} );
DomUtils.setAttribute(messageSelectionTable, "eventAttached", "true");
}
// add event listener to the tab
var tabControls = DomUtils.getElementsByClassName(contentDocument, "TabControl", "div");
for(var i = 0; i
for(var i = 0; i
{
// the last tag contains the email address in the attribute title
var node = aTags[aTags.length - 1];
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "title");
var name = 'Unknown'; // no name is supplied by AOL
dump("inject infobox with email: " + email + "n");
// inject the ibox button
var infoBoxButton = contentDocument.createElement("img");
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxButton, "id", "infoBoxButton");
node.parentNode.appendChild(infoBoxButton);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox", "");
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBoxButton, email, name, this.AOL);
}
}
/**
* parsing function for GMAIL
*/
this.parseGMail = function(node)
{
// process nodes
if(node)
{
// skip everything that is not visible
if(node.style && node.style.display && node.style.display == 'none')
{
return;
}
/*
// Grab the email address from text node
var textContent = null;
switch(node.nodeType)
{
case 2: // ATTRIBUTE_NODE
case 3: // TEXT_NODE
case 4: //CDATA_SECTION_NODE
textContent = node.nodeValue;
break;
default:
break;
}
if (textContent != null)
{
var parseResult = null;
var emailRE = new RegExp("([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)", "gi");
if (parseResult = emailRE.exec(textContent))
{
dump(parseResult[1] + "n");
}
}
*/
// Grab the email address from id, gmail uses _user_email@addr.ess as id for the name node
if(node.id)
{
var id = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'id');
// email and name node
var emailRE = new RegExp("_user_([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)", "gi");
var parseResult = emailRE.exec(id);
if (parseResult)
{
//dump("Email:" + parseResult[1] + "n");
//if(!this._document.getElementById("infoBox"))
if(!DomUtils.hasAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox"))
{
var infoBoxButton = this._document.createElement("img");
node.parentNode.appendChild(infoBoxButton);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox", "");
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBoxButton, parseResult[1], DomUtils.textContent(node), this.GMAIL);
}
}
// also hook up with the 'more option' event, when click, do a reparse
if (id == 'mm' || id == 'ec')
//if (id=='fi') // capture all the click event in the main content window
{
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(node, "mousedown", function(event) {
if(DomUtils.getAttribute(DomUtils.getEventTarget(event), "type") != "infoButton") _this.reparse(_this, _this.GMAIL); }, true);
}
}
if(node.nodeName=='FRAME' || node.nodeName=='IFRAME')
{
this._document = DomUtils.getContentDocument(node);
if (this._document)
this.parseGMail(this._document.documentElement);
}
if(node.hasChildNodes())
{
var children = node.childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i
var parseResult = fromRE.exec(html);
if (parseResult)
{
var _this = this;
//dump("Name:" + parseResult[1] + " Email:" + parseResult[2] + "n");
var localDoc = node.ownerDocument;
node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace(parseResult[0], parseResult[0] + "");
var infoBox = localDoc.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[2], parseResult[1], this.HOTMAIL_LIVE);
}
}
}
if(node.nodeName=='FRAME' || node.nodeName=='IFRAME')
{
var nodeDocument = DomUtils.getContentDocument(node);
if (nodeDocument)
{
this.parseHotmailLive(nodeDocument.documentElement);
}
else
return;
}
if(node.hasChildNodes())
{
var children = node.childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i
{
//dump("id: " + DomUtils.getAttribute(docNodeChildren[i], "id") + "n");
if (DomUtils.getAttribute(docNodeChildren[i], "id") == DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "infoBoxId"))
{
infoBox = docNodeChildren[i];
break;
}
}
if(infoBox)
{
docNode.removeChild(infoBox);
node.removeAttribute("infoBoxId");
}
else
{
dump("can't find infoBox to removen");
}
}
this.lastOpenInfoBox = null;
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "hide");
}
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
this.showInfoBox = function(node)
{
if (DomUtils.isIE())
this.showInfoBoxIE(node);
else
this.showInfoBoxMozilla(node);
}
/**
* to display the infobox, either create it if it doesn't exist
* or show the hidden infobox if it has been created
*/
this.showInfoBoxMozilla = function(node)
{
// dump("Show InfoBox with email: " + node.getAttribute("email") + "n");
// hide the previous infobox
if(this.lastOpenInfoBox)
{
this.hideInfoBox(this.lastOpenInfoBox);
}
this.lastOpenInfoBox = node;
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
if(DomUtils.hasAttribute(node, "infoBoxId"))
{
// if we already have the info box, just show it
var infoBoxId = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "infoBoxId");
var contentDoc = DomUtils.findDocument(node);
var infoBoxDiv = contentDoc.getElementById(infoBoxId);
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "block";
infoBoxDiv.style.top = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "top") + this.ICON_HEIGHT_OFFSET) + "px" ;
infoBoxDiv.style.left = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "left") + this.ICON_WIDTH_OFFSET) + "px";
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
return;
}
else
{
// call XMLRPC to get the data and create the infoBox
// construct tracking web services URL
this.constructWebServicesURL(DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "origin"));
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.LOAD_ICON_URL);
var _this = this;
if(!_this.xmlrpcSession)
_this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile(_this, node);
else
{
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSSession.getMiniProfileInfo",
parameters: [_this.xmlrpcSession, DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "email")],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
// dump("XMLRPC MiniProfile: " + data + "n");
var xmlData = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if(!xmlData || !xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
//dump("new session:" + xmlData[0] + "n");
_this.xmlrpcSession = xmlData[0];
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
}
else
{
// give it a second try because xmlData is Fault when session expired, if not
// just show the error infobox
if(_this.parseFaultObject(xmlData) == 5 /* WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SESSION_ERROR */)
_this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile(_this, node);
else
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
}
},
sync: true
});
}
}
}
/* macro , to separate out the code so more human-readable */
this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile = function(_this, node)
{
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSLogin.login",
parameters: [_this.username, _this.password],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
_this.xmlrpcSession = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if (_this.xmlrpcSession != undefined && _this.xmlrpcSession.isFaultObject)
{
// fault, just skip the second call
_this.createInfoBox(node, _this.xmlrpcSession);
}
else
{
//dump("Session :" + _this.xmlrpcSession + "n");
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSSession.getMiniProfileInfo",
parameters: [_this.xmlrpcSession, DomUtils.getAttribute(node,"email")],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
//dump("XMLRPC MiniProfile: " + data + "n");
var xmlData = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if(!xmlData || !xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
//dump("new session:" + xmlData[0] + "n");
_this.xmlrpcSession = xmlData[0];
}
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
},
sync: true
});
}
},
sync: true
});
}
/**
* create the DIV and IFRAME for infobox
*/
this.createInfoBox = function(node, xmlData)
{
//dump("infoXML: " + xmlData + "n");
var contentDoc = DomUtils.findDocument(node);
var infoBoxDiv = contentDoc.createElement("div");
var infoBoxIFrame = contentDoc.createElement("iframe");
var date = new Date();
var infoBoxId = "infoBoxDiv" + date.valueOf();
infoBoxDiv.appendChild(infoBoxIFrame);
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'src', this.TEMPLATE_URL);
infoBoxIFrame.style.width = "100%";
infoBoxIFrame.style.height = "100%";
infoBoxIFrame.style.border = "0px solid white";
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'id', 'infoFrame');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'name', 'infoFrame');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'scrolling','no');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxDiv, "id", infoBoxId);
infoBoxDiv.style.position="absolute";
infoBoxDiv.style.width = "300px";
infoBoxDiv.style.height = "255px";
infoBoxDiv.style.border = "1px solid black";
infoBoxDiv.style.top = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "top") + this.ICON_HEIGHT_OFFSET) + "px" ;
infoBoxDiv.style.left = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "left") + this.ICON_WIDTH_OFFSET) + "px";
infoBoxDiv.style.background = "white";
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "none";
infoBoxDiv.style.opacity = 0.9;
infoBoxDiv.style.zIndex = 10;
// find the parent HTML node and append child there
var docBody = DomUtils.findDocumentBody(node);
docBody.appendChild(infoBoxDiv);
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "infoBoxId", infoBoxId);
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(
infoBoxIFrame,
'load',
function()
{
//alert("load callback");
_this.execInfoBox(infoBoxIFrame, xmlData, node);
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "block";
},
false
);
if(true)
{
var enterInfoBoxDiv = function()
{
//dump("mouseovern");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "mouseInIBox", "true");
}
var leaveInfoBoxDiv = function()
{
//dump("mouseoutn");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "mouseInIBox", "false");
args = [node];
DomUtils.setTimeout(function(){ return _this.checkHideInfoBox.apply(_this, args); }, _this.HIDE_DELAY_TIME);
}
DomUtils.addEventListener(infoBoxDiv, "mouseover", enterInfoBoxDiv, false);
DomUtils.addEventListener(infoBoxDiv, "mouseout", leaveInfoBoxDiv, false);
}
}
/**
* exercise the javascripe inside the infobox to generate the content
*/
this.execInfoBox = function(infoBoxIFrame, xmlData, node)
{
var iBoxDoc = DomUtils.getContentDocument(infoBoxIFrame);
var name = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'name');
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'email');
// Determine if the XMLRPC result code is valid
var xmlResultCode = 0;
var xmlResult = "";
if (xmlData != undefined)
{
if (xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
xmlResultCode = this.parseFaultObject(xmlData);
}
else
{
xmlResult = xmlData[1];
}
}
// Run the ibox script with the XMLRPC data
if (iBoxDoc)
{
var runScript = iBoxDoc.getElementById('run');
var strNameSearchUrl = this.NAME_SEARCH_URL + escape(escape(name));
runScript.innerHTML = "var xmlInputData = " + xmlResult.toSource() + "; showMiniProfile(xmlInputData, " + xmlResultCode + ", " + name.toSource() + ", " + strNameSearchUrl.toSource() + ", " + email.toSource() + ", true)";
// Hook up the close button
var closeButton = iBoxDoc.getElementById('close');
var loginLink = iBoxDoc.getElementById('runLogin');
var inviteLink = iBoxDoc.getElementById('inviteLink');
//dump("LoginLink: " + loginLink + "n");
var _this = this;
// Hide the info box when user click outside of the infobox, when use click inside the infobox, the event listener in the next
// line will take over
DomUtils.addEventListener(node.ownerDocument, "mousedown", function(event) {_this.hideInfoBox(node); return false; }, false);
// Define custom mouseclick behavior for info box
if(DomUtils.isMozilla())
{
DomUtils.addEventListener(loginLink, "click",
function(event)
{
DomUtils.stopPropagation(event);
_this.hideInfoBox(node, true);
linCompPref(function(){ _this.setAccount(nsLinCompPref.getCharPref("com.linkedin.lincomp.username"), TEAdecrypt(nsLinCompPref.getCharPref("com.linkedin.lincomp.password"), "linkedin")); });
return false;
}, true);
DomUtils.addEventListener(iBoxDoc, "mousedown",
function(event)
{
DomUtils.stopPropagation(event);
if(!LinCompUtils.captureLinkClick(event))
_this.hideInfoBox(node);
return false;
}, true);
if(inviteLink)
DomUtils.addEventListener(inviteLink, "click",
function(event)
{
_this.hideInfoBox(node, true);
return false;
}, true);
}
DomUtils.addEventListener(closeButton, "click", function() { _this.hideInfoBox(node); } , true);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
}
/**
* XMLRPC helper
*/
this.parseFaultObject = function(faultObj)
{
var WS_XMLRPC_RESULT =
{
OK: 0,
LOGIN_ERROR : 1,
CONNECTION_ERROR: 2,
OFFLINE_ERROR : 3,
SITEDOWN_ERROR : 4,
SESSION_ERROR : 5,
USAGE_ERROR : 6,
UNKNOWN_ERROR : 7
};
var WS_XMLRPC_ERROR =
{
WS_LOGIN_ERROR : "LoginDeniedException",
WS_NOMEMBER_ERROR : "NoSuchMemberException",
WS_CONNECTION_ERROR : "Sync HttpSendRequest failed",
WS_UNREACHABLE_ERROR : "The system cannot find the file specified.",
WS_SESSION_ERROR : "InvalidSessionStateException",
WS_USAGE_ERROR : "UsageLimitExceeded"
};
var faultString = faultObj.faultString;
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_LOGIN_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.LOGIN_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_NOMEMBER_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.OK;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_CONNECTION_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.CONNECTION_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_UNREACHABLE_ERROR) != -1)
{
// LinkedIn can be reach, user must set IE to offline
if(isHostReachable("http://www.linkedin.com"))
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.OFFLINE_ERROR;
}
// LinkedIn is not reachable but one of the ping sites are reachable,
// LinkedIn is down
if(isHostReachable("http://www.google.com"))
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SITEDOWN_ERROR
}
// User has no connection to the Internet
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.CONNECTION;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_SESSION_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SESSION_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_USAGE_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.USAGE_ERROR;
}
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.UNKNOWN_ERROR;
}
this.showInfoBoxIE = function(node)
{
var IEToolbar = new ActiveXObject("IEToolbar.IEIBox");
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "email");
var name = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "name");
var origin= DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "origin");
IEToolbar.ShowProfile(email, name, origin);
// Restore the icon back to the "normal" state.
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
/**
* return the type from URL
*/
this.detectURL = function(url)
{
var urlTesters = new Array();
if(this.detectProperty.gmail)
{
var gmailTester = new Object();
gmailTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://mail.google.com/mail/", "gi");
gmailTester.returnValue = this.GMAIL;
urlTesters.push(gmailTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.hotmail)
{
var hotmailTester = new Object();
hotmailTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.hotmail\.msn\.com/cgi-bin/getmsg\?msg=", "gi");
hotmailTester.returnValue = this.HOTMAIL;
urlTesters.push(hotmailTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.hotmailLive)
{
var hotmailLiveTester = new Object();
hotmailLiveTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.live\.com/mail/mail\.aspx", "gi");
hotmailLiveTester.returnValue = this.HOTMAIL_LIVE;
urlTesters.push(hotmailLiveTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.yahoo)
{
var yahooTester = new Object();
yahooTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.yahoo\.com/ym/ShowLetter\?.*MsgId=", "gi");
yahooTester.returnValue = this.YAHOO;
urlTesters.push(yahooTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.yahooAjax)
{
var yahooAjaxTester = new Object();
yahooAjaxTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.yahoo\.com/dc/launch", "gi");
yahooAjaxTester.returnValue = this.YAHOO_AJAX;
urlTesters.push(yahooAjaxTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.aol)
{
var aolTester = new Object();
aolTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://([A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\.)?webmail\.aol\.com/.*/mail/display-message\.aspx", "gi");
aolTester.returnValue = this.AOL;
urlTesters.push(aolTester);
}
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United States recently gathered to discuss the differences in international
models of business education and the impact of globalization on their industry.
The event was the latest in a series of roundtables held around the globe and
organized and moderated by Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth, and Santiago Iñiguez, dean of Instituto de Empressa Business
School. This latest assembly was hosted by Dean Paul Garrison of the Central European
University Business School in Budapest.
business education just as surely as it has changed international business,"
says Danos. "These roundtable discussions have been a valuable tool for
comparing regional business school models and ensuring that our MBA programs
reflect the realities of the modern marketplace."
20 schools around the world, senior faculty members, business education
reporters, education consultants, and professional development executives from
top corporations have joined together for the four roundtable sessions held to
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{
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this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
|| this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion)
|| "an unknown version";
this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
};
this.searchString = function (data)
{
for (var i=0;i 0)
{
if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
return data[i].identity;
}
/*
else if (dataProp)
return data[i].identity;
*/
}
return null;
};
this.searchVersion = function (dataString)
{
var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
if (index == -1) return;
return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1));
};
this.dataBrowser = [
{
string: "navigator.vendor",
subString: "Apple",
identity: "Safari"
},
/*
{
prop: "window.opera",
identity: "Opera"
},
*/
{
string: "navigator.vendor",
subString: "iCab",
identity: "iCab"
},
{
string: "navigator.vendor",
subString: "KDE",
identity: "Konqueror"
},
{
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Firefox",
identity: "Firefox"
},
{ // for newer Netscapes (6+)
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Netscape",
identity: "Netscape"
},
{
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "MSIE",
identity: "Explorer",
versionSearch: "MSIE"
},
{
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Gecko",
identity: "Mozilla",
versionSearch: "rv"
},
{ // for older Netscapes (4-)
string: "navigator.userAgent",
subString: "Mozilla",
identity: "Netscape",
versionSearch: "Mozilla"
}
];
this.dataOS = [
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Win",
identity: "Windows"
},
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Mac",
identity: "Mac"
},
{
string: "navigator.platform",
subString: "Linux",
identity: "Linux"
}
]
};
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var gBrowserDetect = null;
var DomUtils =
{
/*
function domHelper()
{
this.ELEMENT_NODE = 1;
this.ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;
this.TEXT_NODE = 3;
this.CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
this.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5;
this.ENTITY_NODE = 6;
this.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
this.COMMENT_NODE = 8;
this.DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;
this.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;
this.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
this.NOTATION_NODE = 12;
}
*/
/*
isMozilla: (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Firefox') != -1) || (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Netscape') != -1) || (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Mozilla') != -1),
isIE: (BrowserDetect.browser.search('Explorer') != -1),
*/
isMozilla: function()
{
if(gBrowserDetect == null)
{
gBrowserDetect = new BrowserDetect();
gBrowserDetect.init();
}
return (gBrowserDetect.browser.search('Firefox') != -1);
},
isIE: function()
{
if(gBrowserDetect == null)
{
gBrowserDetect = new BrowserDetect();
gBrowserDetect.init();
}
return (gBrowserDetect.browser.search('Explorer') != -1);
},
firstElement: function(parentNode, tagName)
{
var node = parentNode.firstChild;
while(node && node.nodeType != 1 /* ELEMENT_NODE */)
{
node = node.nextSibling;
}
if(tagName && node && node.tagName && node.tagName.toLowerCase() != tagName.toLowerCase())
{
node = DomUtils.nextElement(node, tagName);
}
return node;
},
nextElement: function(node, tagName)
{
if(!node)
{
return null;
}
do
{
node = node.nextSibling;
}
while(node && node.nodeType != 1 /* ELEMENT_NODE */);
if(node && tagName && tagName.toLowerCase() != node.tagName.toLowerCase())
{
return DomUtils.nextElement(node, tagName);
}
return node;
},
textContent: function(node)
{
var _result = "";
if (node == null)
{
return _result;
}
for (var i = 0; i
xml += "" + this.getParamXML(this.dataTypeOf(data),data) + "n";
xml += "n";
}
xml += "n";
xml += "";
return xml; // for now
};
this.dataTypeOf = function (o)
{
// identifies the data type
var type = typeof(o);
type = type.toLowerCase();
switch(type)
{
case "number":
if (Math.round(o) == o)
type = "i4";
else
type = "double";
break;
case "object":
var con = o.constructor;
if (con == Date)
type = "date";
else if (con == Array)
type = "array";
else
type = "struct";
break;
}
return type;
};
this.doValueXML = function(type,data)
{
var xml = "" + data + "";
return xml;
};
this.doBooleanXML = function(data)
{
var value = (data==true)?1:0;
var xml = "" + value + "";
return xml;
};
this.doDateXML = function(data)
{
var xml = "";
xml += dateToISO8601(data);
xml += "";
return xml;
};
this.doArrayXML = function(data)
{
var xml = "n";
for (var i = 0; i From : ([\w\s\d-'\.]+?)\s*<([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)>", "gi"); \s*
var parseResult = fromRE.exec(html);
if (parseResult)
{
var _this = this;
//dump("Name:" + parseResult[1] + " Email:" + parseResult[2] + "n");
var fromNodes = DomUtils.findContentNodes(contentDocument, /From.:./);
for(var i = 0; i
var infoBox = contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[2], parseResult[1], this.HOTMAIL);
}
}
}
}
/**
* parsing function for Classic Yahoo mail
*/
this.parseYahoo = function(contentDocument)
{
if (contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton'))
return;
var fromRE = new RegExp(">From:(]+>]+> )?"([\w\s\d-'\.]+?)"\s*<([A-Za-z0-9_\-.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)>", "gi");
var node = null;
var parseResult = null;
var tableNodes = contentDocument.getElementsByTagName('table');
for(var i=0; i
var infoBox = contentDocument.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[3], parseResult[2], this.YAHOO);
}
}
}
}
}
/**
* parsing function for Yahoo AJAX
*/
this.parseYahooAjax = function(contentDocument)
{
// IE needs to add click event listener on tables. Firefox doesn't need to as we hook up with "pageview" event
if(DomUtils.isIE())
{
// add event listener to message selection table
var messageSelectionTable = DomUtils.getElementById(contentDocument, "mainTablePane");
if(messageSelectionTable && DomUtils.getAttribute(messageSelectionTable, "eventAttached") != "true")
{
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(messageSelectionTable, "click",
function() { _this.delayParse(_this.parseYahooAjax, contentDocument, 1000);} );
DomUtils.setAttribute(messageSelectionTable, "eventAttached", "true");
}
// add event listener to the tab
var tabControls = DomUtils.getElementsByClassName(contentDocument, "TabControl", "div");
for(var i = 0; i
for(var i = 0; i
{
// the last tag contains the email address in the attribute title
var node = aTags[aTags.length - 1];
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "title");
var name = 'Unknown'; // no name is supplied by AOL
dump("inject infobox with email: " + email + "n");
// inject the ibox button
var infoBoxButton = contentDocument.createElement("img");
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxButton, "id", "infoBoxButton");
node.parentNode.appendChild(infoBoxButton);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox", "");
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBoxButton, email, name, this.AOL);
}
}
/**
* parsing function for GMAIL
*/
this.parseGMail = function(node)
{
// process nodes
if(node)
{
// skip everything that is not visible
if(node.style && node.style.display && node.style.display == 'none')
{
return;
}
/*
// Grab the email address from text node
var textContent = null;
switch(node.nodeType)
{
case 2: // ATTRIBUTE_NODE
case 3: // TEXT_NODE
case 4: //CDATA_SECTION_NODE
textContent = node.nodeValue;
break;
default:
break;
}
if (textContent != null)
{
var parseResult = null;
var emailRE = new RegExp("([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)", "gi");
if (parseResult = emailRE.exec(textContent))
{
dump(parseResult[1] + "n");
}
}
*/
// Grab the email address from id, gmail uses _user_email@addr.ess as id for the name node
if(node.id)
{
var id = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'id');
// email and name node
var emailRE = new RegExp("_user_([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[A-Za-z]+)", "gi");
var parseResult = emailRE.exec(id);
if (parseResult)
{
//dump("Email:" + parseResult[1] + "n");
//if(!this._document.getElementById("infoBox"))
if(!DomUtils.hasAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox"))
{
var infoBoxButton = this._document.createElement("img");
node.parentNode.appendChild(infoBoxButton);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node.parentNode, "infoBox", "");
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBoxButton, parseResult[1], DomUtils.textContent(node), this.GMAIL);
}
}
// also hook up with the 'more option' event, when click, do a reparse
if (id == 'mm' || id == 'ec')
//if (id=='fi') // capture all the click event in the main content window
{
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(node, "mousedown", function(event) {
if(DomUtils.getAttribute(DomUtils.getEventTarget(event), "type") != "infoButton") _this.reparse(_this, _this.GMAIL); }, true);
}
}
if(node.nodeName=='FRAME' || node.nodeName=='IFRAME')
{
this._document = DomUtils.getContentDocument(node);
if (this._document)
this.parseGMail(this._document.documentElement);
}
if(node.hasChildNodes())
{
var children = node.childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i
var parseResult = fromRE.exec(html);
if (parseResult)
{
var _this = this;
//dump("Name:" + parseResult[1] + " Email:" + parseResult[2] + "n");
var localDoc = node.ownerDocument;
node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace(parseResult[0], parseResult[0] + "");
var infoBox = localDoc.getElementById('infoBoxButton');
this.initInfoBoxButtonProperty(infoBox, parseResult[2], parseResult[1], this.HOTMAIL_LIVE);
}
}
}
if(node.nodeName=='FRAME' || node.nodeName=='IFRAME')
{
var nodeDocument = DomUtils.getContentDocument(node);
if (nodeDocument)
{
this.parseHotmailLive(nodeDocument.documentElement);
}
else
return;
}
if(node.hasChildNodes())
{
var children = node.childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i
{
//dump("id: " + DomUtils.getAttribute(docNodeChildren[i], "id") + "n");
if (DomUtils.getAttribute(docNodeChildren[i], "id") == DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "infoBoxId"))
{
infoBox = docNodeChildren[i];
break;
}
}
if(infoBox)
{
docNode.removeChild(infoBox);
node.removeAttribute("infoBoxId");
}
else
{
dump("can't find infoBox to removen");
}
}
this.lastOpenInfoBox = null;
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "hide");
}
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
this.showInfoBox = function(node)
{
if (DomUtils.isIE())
this.showInfoBoxIE(node);
else
this.showInfoBoxMozilla(node);
}
/**
* to display the infobox, either create it if it doesn't exist
* or show the hidden infobox if it has been created
*/
this.showInfoBoxMozilla = function(node)
{
// dump("Show InfoBox with email: " + node.getAttribute("email") + "n");
// hide the previous infobox
if(this.lastOpenInfoBox)
{
this.hideInfoBox(this.lastOpenInfoBox);
}
this.lastOpenInfoBox = node;
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
if(DomUtils.hasAttribute(node, "infoBoxId"))
{
// if we already have the info box, just show it
var infoBoxId = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "infoBoxId");
var contentDoc = DomUtils.findDocument(node);
var infoBoxDiv = contentDoc.getElementById(infoBoxId);
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "block";
infoBoxDiv.style.top = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "top") + this.ICON_HEIGHT_OFFSET) + "px" ;
infoBoxDiv.style.left = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "left") + this.ICON_WIDTH_OFFSET) + "px";
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
return;
}
else
{
// call XMLRPC to get the data and create the infoBox
// construct tracking web services URL
this.constructWebServicesURL(DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "origin"));
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.LOAD_ICON_URL);
var _this = this;
if(!_this.xmlrpcSession)
_this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile(_this, node);
else
{
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSSession.getMiniProfileInfo",
parameters: [_this.xmlrpcSession, DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "email")],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
// dump("XMLRPC MiniProfile: " + data + "n");
var xmlData = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if(!xmlData || !xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
//dump("new session:" + xmlData[0] + "n");
_this.xmlrpcSession = xmlData[0];
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
}
else
{
// give it a second try because xmlData is Fault when session expired, if not
// just show the error infobox
if(_this.parseFaultObject(xmlData) == 5 /* WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SESSION_ERROR */)
_this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile(_this, node);
else
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
}
},
sync: true
});
}
}
}
/* macro , to separate out the code so more human-readable */
this.callXmlRpcLoginAndGetMiniProfile = function(_this, node)
{
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSLogin.login",
parameters: [_this.username, _this.password],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
_this.xmlrpcSession = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if (_this.xmlrpcSession != undefined && _this.xmlrpcSession.isFaultObject)
{
// fault, just skip the second call
_this.createInfoBox(node, _this.xmlrpcSession);
}
else
{
//dump("Session :" + _this.xmlrpcSession + "n");
_this.xmlrpcService.call(
{
method: "WSSession.getMiniProfileInfo",
parameters: [_this.xmlrpcSession, DomUtils.getAttribute(node,"email")],
load: function(type, data, evt)
{
//dump("XMLRPC MiniProfile: " + data + "n");
var xmlData = _this.xmlrpcService.parseResult(data);
if(!xmlData || !xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
//dump("new session:" + xmlData[0] + "n");
_this.xmlrpcSession = xmlData[0];
}
_this.createInfoBox(node, xmlData);
},
sync: true
});
}
},
sync: true
});
}
/**
* create the DIV and IFRAME for infobox
*/
this.createInfoBox = function(node, xmlData)
{
//dump("infoXML: " + xmlData + "n");
var contentDoc = DomUtils.findDocument(node);
var infoBoxDiv = contentDoc.createElement("div");
var infoBoxIFrame = contentDoc.createElement("iframe");
var date = new Date();
var infoBoxId = "infoBoxDiv" + date.valueOf();
infoBoxDiv.appendChild(infoBoxIFrame);
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'src', this.TEMPLATE_URL);
infoBoxIFrame.style.width = "100%";
infoBoxIFrame.style.height = "100%";
infoBoxIFrame.style.border = "0px solid white";
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'id', 'infoFrame');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'name', 'infoFrame');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxIFrame, 'scrolling','no');
DomUtils.setAttribute(infoBoxDiv, "id", infoBoxId);
infoBoxDiv.style.position="absolute";
infoBoxDiv.style.width = "300px";
infoBoxDiv.style.height = "255px";
infoBoxDiv.style.border = "1px solid black";
infoBoxDiv.style.top = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "top") + this.ICON_HEIGHT_OFFSET) + "px" ;
infoBoxDiv.style.left = (DomUtils.getTotalOffset(node, "left") + this.ICON_WIDTH_OFFSET) + "px";
infoBoxDiv.style.background = "white";
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "none";
infoBoxDiv.style.opacity = 0.9;
infoBoxDiv.style.zIndex = 10;
// find the parent HTML node and append child there
var docBody = DomUtils.findDocumentBody(node);
docBody.appendChild(infoBoxDiv);
//DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "infoBoxId", infoBoxId);
var _this = this;
DomUtils.addEventListener(
infoBoxIFrame,
'load',
function()
{
//alert("load callback");
_this.execInfoBox(infoBoxIFrame, xmlData, node);
infoBoxDiv.style.display = "block";
},
false
);
if(true)
{
var enterInfoBoxDiv = function()
{
//dump("mouseovern");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "mouseInIBox", "true");
}
var leaveInfoBoxDiv = function()
{
//dump("mouseoutn");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "mouseInIBox", "false");
args = [node];
DomUtils.setTimeout(function(){ return _this.checkHideInfoBox.apply(_this, args); }, _this.HIDE_DELAY_TIME);
}
DomUtils.addEventListener(infoBoxDiv, "mouseover", enterInfoBoxDiv, false);
DomUtils.addEventListener(infoBoxDiv, "mouseout", leaveInfoBoxDiv, false);
}
}
/**
* exercise the javascripe inside the infobox to generate the content
*/
this.execInfoBox = function(infoBoxIFrame, xmlData, node)
{
var iBoxDoc = DomUtils.getContentDocument(infoBoxIFrame);
var name = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'name');
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, 'email');
// Determine if the XMLRPC result code is valid
var xmlResultCode = 0;
var xmlResult = "";
if (xmlData != undefined)
{
if (xmlData.isFaultObject)
{
xmlResultCode = this.parseFaultObject(xmlData);
}
else
{
xmlResult = xmlData[1];
}
}
// Run the ibox script with the XMLRPC data
if (iBoxDoc)
{
var runScript = iBoxDoc.getElementById('run');
var strNameSearchUrl = this.NAME_SEARCH_URL + escape(escape(name));
runScript.innerHTML = "var xmlInputData = " + xmlResult.toSource() + "; showMiniProfile(xmlInputData, " + xmlResultCode + ", " + name.toSource() + ", " + strNameSearchUrl.toSource() + ", " + email.toSource() + ", true)";
// Hook up the close button
var closeButton = iBoxDoc.getElementById('close');
var loginLink = iBoxDoc.getElementById('runLogin');
var inviteLink = iBoxDoc.getElementById('inviteLink');
//dump("LoginLink: " + loginLink + "n");
var _this = this;
// Hide the info box when user click outside of the infobox, when use click inside the infobox, the event listener in the next
// line will take over
DomUtils.addEventListener(node.ownerDocument, "mousedown", function(event) {_this.hideInfoBox(node); return false; }, false);
// Define custom mouseclick behavior for info box
if(DomUtils.isMozilla())
{
DomUtils.addEventListener(loginLink, "click",
function(event)
{
DomUtils.stopPropagation(event);
_this.hideInfoBox(node, true);
linCompPref(function(){ _this.setAccount(nsLinCompPref.getCharPref("com.linkedin.lincomp.username"), TEAdecrypt(nsLinCompPref.getCharPref("com.linkedin.lincomp.password"), "linkedin")); });
return false;
}, true);
DomUtils.addEventListener(iBoxDoc, "mousedown",
function(event)
{
DomUtils.stopPropagation(event);
if(!LinCompUtils.captureLinkClick(event))
_this.hideInfoBox(node);
return false;
}, true);
if(inviteLink)
DomUtils.addEventListener(inviteLink, "click",
function(event)
{
_this.hideInfoBox(node, true);
return false;
}, true);
}
DomUtils.addEventListener(closeButton, "click", function() { _this.hideInfoBox(node); } , true);
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
}
/**
* XMLRPC helper
*/
this.parseFaultObject = function(faultObj)
{
var WS_XMLRPC_RESULT =
{
OK: 0,
LOGIN_ERROR : 1,
CONNECTION_ERROR: 2,
OFFLINE_ERROR : 3,
SITEDOWN_ERROR : 4,
SESSION_ERROR : 5,
USAGE_ERROR : 6,
UNKNOWN_ERROR : 7
};
var WS_XMLRPC_ERROR =
{
WS_LOGIN_ERROR : "LoginDeniedException",
WS_NOMEMBER_ERROR : "NoSuchMemberException",
WS_CONNECTION_ERROR : "Sync HttpSendRequest failed",
WS_UNREACHABLE_ERROR : "The system cannot find the file specified.",
WS_SESSION_ERROR : "InvalidSessionStateException",
WS_USAGE_ERROR : "UsageLimitExceeded"
};
var faultString = faultObj.faultString;
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_LOGIN_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.LOGIN_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_NOMEMBER_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.OK;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_CONNECTION_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.CONNECTION_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_UNREACHABLE_ERROR) != -1)
{
// LinkedIn can be reach, user must set IE to offline
if(isHostReachable("http://www.linkedin.com"))
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.OFFLINE_ERROR;
}
// LinkedIn is not reachable but one of the ping sites are reachable,
// LinkedIn is down
if(isHostReachable("http://www.google.com"))
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SITEDOWN_ERROR
}
// User has no connection to the Internet
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.CONNECTION;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_SESSION_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.SESSION_ERROR;
}
if(faultString.search(WS_XMLRPC_ERROR.WS_USAGE_ERROR) != -1)
{
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.USAGE_ERROR;
}
return WS_XMLRPC_RESULT.UNKNOWN_ERROR;
}
this.showInfoBoxIE = function(node)
{
var IEToolbar = new ActiveXObject("IEToolbar.IEIBox");
var email = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "email");
var name = DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "name");
var origin= DomUtils.getAttribute(node, "origin");
IEToolbar.ShowProfile(email, name, origin);
// Restore the icon back to the "normal" state.
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, "status", "show");
DomUtils.setAttribute(node, 'src', this.STATIC_ICON_URL);
}
/**
* return the type from URL
*/
this.detectURL = function(url)
{
var urlTesters = new Array();
if(this.detectProperty.gmail)
{
var gmailTester = new Object();
gmailTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://mail.google.com/mail/", "gi");
gmailTester.returnValue = this.GMAIL;
urlTesters.push(gmailTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.hotmail)
{
var hotmailTester = new Object();
hotmailTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.hotmail\.msn\.com/cgi-bin/getmsg\?msg=", "gi");
hotmailTester.returnValue = this.HOTMAIL;
urlTesters.push(hotmailTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.hotmailLive)
{
var hotmailLiveTester = new Object();
hotmailLiveTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.live\.com/mail/mail\.aspx", "gi");
hotmailLiveTester.returnValue = this.HOTMAIL_LIVE;
urlTesters.push(hotmailLiveTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.yahoo)
{
var yahooTester = new Object();
yahooTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.yahoo\.com/ym/ShowLetter\?.*MsgId=", "gi");
yahooTester.returnValue = this.YAHOO;
urlTesters.push(yahooTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.yahooAjax)
{
var yahooAjaxTester = new Object();
yahooAjaxTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://[A-Za-z0-9\.]+\.mail\.yahoo\.com/dc/launch", "gi");
yahooAjaxTester.returnValue = this.YAHOO_AJAX;
urlTesters.push(yahooAjaxTester);
}
if(this.detectProperty.aol)
{
var aolTester = new Object();
aolTester.regexp = new RegExp("^http://([A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\.)?webmail\.aol\.com/.*/mail/display-message\.aspx", "gi");
aolTester.returnValue = this.AOL;
urlTesters.push(aolTester);
}
for (var i = 0; i
United States recently gathered to discuss the differences in international
models of business education and the impact of globalization on their industry.
The event was the latest in a series of roundtables held around the globe and
organized and moderated by Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth, and Santiago Iñiguez, dean of Instituto de Empressa Business
School. This latest assembly was hosted by Dean Paul Garrison of the Central European
University Business School in Budapest.
business education just as surely as it has changed international business,"
says Danos. "These roundtable discussions have been a valuable tool for
comparing regional business school models and ensuring that our MBA programs
reflect the realities of the modern marketplace."
20 schools around the world, senior faculty members, business education
reporters, education consultants, and professional development executives from
top corporations have joined together for the four roundtable sessions held to
date...
June 08, 2008
Published: June 6, 2008 Author: Jim Heskett
To read more:
Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay H. Zaltman, Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep
Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers (Boston: Harvard Business
Press, 2008);
Gerald Zaltman, How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the
Market (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes.
non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music downloading service.
for students to use on iPods or computers.
College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes.
non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music downloading service.
for students to use on iPods or computers.
June 09, 2008
up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of
thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz
investigates
scholarship and the assumptions made - or often said to be made - by
today's "Google generation", where everything is about instant
gratification and "facts at one's fingertips", and information that
lies more than three clicks away simply doesn't exist. Many are now
concerned that this generation gap presents a fundamental challenge to
some of the things that universities have long stood for, and that
universities are either unable or failing to bridge it.
that has been Googlised? There seems to be some evidence for this.
"With Google Scholar and Google Library under way," Library Journal
reported in 2006, "Google strengthened its claim as the ubiquitous
front door to the web and all of its content... 72 per cent of scholars
surveyed for a report on self-archiving confessed to using Google to
find scholarly literature on the web. Journal publishers of all sizes
and importance are shaping their business plans around this phenomenon,
sharing metadata with Google and other web crawlers in hopes of drawing
users to content behind their tollgates."...
among the students of tomorrow. But that is only the half of it.
Uncritical reliance on search engines may be a reasonable way of
accessing information, despite their many limitations, but it is of no
help for the core educational goal of learning to assess such
information. The Ciber paper expressed concerns about whether students'
"having 'facts at their fingertips' and a surfeit of information is at
the expense of creative and independent thinking".
up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of
thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz
investigates
scholarship and the assumptions made - or often said to be made - by
today's "Google generation", where everything is about instant
gratification and "facts at one's fingertips", and information that
lies more than three clicks away simply doesn't exist. Many are now
concerned that this generation gap presents a fundamental challenge to
some of the things that universities have long stood for, and that
universities are either unable or failing to bridge it.
that has been Googlised? There seems to be some evidence for this.
"With Google Scholar and Google Library under way," Library Journal
reported in 2006, "Google strengthened its claim as the ubiquitous
front door to the web and all of its content... 72 per cent of scholars
surveyed for a report on self-archiving confessed to using Google to
find scholarly literature on the web. Journal publishers of all sizes
and importance are shaping their business plans around this phenomenon,
sharing metadata with Google and other web crawlers in hopes of drawing
users to content behind their tollgates."...
among the students of tomorrow. But that is only the half of it.
Uncritical reliance on search engines may be a reasonable way of
accessing information, despite their many limitations, but it is of no
help for the core educational goal of learning to assess such
information. The Ciber paper expressed concerns about whether students'
"having 'facts at their fingertips' and a surfeit of information is at
the expense of creative and independent thinking".
June 10, 2008
Q&A with: Josh Lerner Published: June 9, 2008 Author: Sean Silverthorne
About the author
years experience in helping people in the most disadvantaged areas of the
English regions set up successful and sustainable businesses and the results of
the evaluation highlight how much of a positive impact t
study provides insights across ten key performance criteria and 30 further
criteria dealing with access to and interest in the information provided.
Findings are based on work carried out with270 current and prospective students
at bu
20th century: globalisation. Those great tentacles that gripped our world in
a hideous embrace are suddenly weakening and the multinational octopus is
looking a bit pale and sickly. The extraordinary rise in the price of crude
oil is wrecking outsourced business models everywhere and distance from your
customer is no longer merely a matter of dull logistics. Whether you are
selling coiled steel or cut flowers, the cost of transport is a problem.
June 11, 2008
unsolicited $47 billion ($£23.9 billion) all cash offer from its bigger
Belgian rival, InBev.
consumption continued to grow, according to BP.
foreigners have had a negative impact on Britain’s competitiveness and the
Treasury needs to do all it can to reverse the damage, a report by a House
of Lords committee claims today.
high street, offering the latest sign that retailers may not feel its full
effects until next year.
a stock market value of more than £1 billion and a planned move to the full
list.
Independent News and Media ended in failure yesterday after a lengthy annual
meeting that featured turns from Kevin Spacey and a former Canadian Prime
Minister.
remained jittery following Lehman Brother’s news on Monday that it needs
fresh capital. The market was also reacting to rumours that Goldman Sachs
would report a hefty second-quarter writedown on its portfolio of
mortgage-related investments on Tuesday.
including some at its site in Harlow, Essex, marking a significant new stage
in cutbacks in the pharmaceuticals industry, which is struggling in the face
of competition from cheaper generic products and fewer blockbuster
medicines.
calling on Rod Kent, the chairman, and other senior executives to resign in
the wake of the embattled mortgage lender's botched £400 million rights
issue plan and a shock profits warning.
underwriters to the huge HBOS rights issue were faced with the prospect of
being lumbered with £4 billion of unwanted shares.
crunch reached its climax, I wrote that a taxpayer-backed “plan B” would
soon be needed to the save the world banking system. If financial markets
failed to clear up the sub-prime mortgage mess by the end of the first
quarter, the consequences would be so horrific that governments would have
no choice but to step in.
deepening economic downturn forces more companies to cut staff, City experts
said yesterday.
over Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest maker of generic drugs, in a deal
worth up to $4.6 billion ($£2.3 billion).
reassure the City about its financial position yesterday after a collapse in
its share price.
trailer for the main feature, the HBOS Rocky Rights Horror Picture Show.
June 12, 2008
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