Jan 04
Analysts believe Yahoo’s next CEO must be willing to merge the search firm with Microsoft.
To impress shareholders, Yahoo‘s next chief executive needs just one qualification: the willingness to do a deal with Microsoft
That’s because this remains Yahoo’s best option, short of a dramatic turnaround plan, analysts said.
But if Microsoft does eventually buy Yahoo, shareholders should brace themselves for a price far lower than the $47.5 billion the software behemoth offered earlier this year.
Wall Street analysts estimate that Microsoft would not offer more than $17-$20 per share for Yahoo, whose stock has fallen below $12 from a high of $30.25 in February.
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Jan 04
To provide technical assistance and developmental knowledge to fight poverty and disease, the World Bank first had to overhaul its antiquated I.T. system and build a global network.
Amidst the World Bank’s recent management brouhaha, a more significant event has gone overlooked—the bank’s dramatic transformation from a hierarchical source of low-interest loans to a decentralized organization that uses knowledge-sharing technologies to fight poverty and disease in developing nations. The enabler of this transformation: the bank’s overhaul of its antiquated I.T. infrastructure and construction of a truly global network.
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Jan 04
Apple University may serve as the company’s internal MBA program as part of a training and development division, mirroring aspects of a similar program that developed at Pixar.
The new program is set to begin early next year under the direction of Joel Podolny, who Apple hired away from Yale University’s School of Management last month. Podolny served as the dean for Yale’s business school, and will now act as the dean for Apple’s own university program, according to a retirement letter from Yale president Richard Levin published last month.
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Nov 15
Boston doctors warm up to system that challenges their judgments in prescribing medication to patients
Computerworld – At Partners HealthCare System Inc., which includes some of Boston’s most prestigious teaching hospitals, a knowledge management system for physicians has reduced serious medication errors by 55%. John Glaser, CIO at Partners, has been at the helm of this effort for more than a decade, bringing just-in-time knowledge to bear on life-and-death decisions. In this month’s Harvard Business Review, he reports on progress and lessons learned with co-author Thomas H. Davenport, director of Accenture Ltd.’s Institute for Strategic Change in Cambridge, Mass. Computerworld’s Kathleen Melymuka, who first reported on the project a decade ago, spoke with Glaser recently to get an update about how the system is working.
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Nov 08
Shuffle Master, a casino equipment maker, found a quick way to get more from its customer relationship management and planning systems—and avoid a full-blown integration project.
When people talk about winning big in las vegas, they wish for Lady Luck on their shoulder, but Shuffle Master, the manufacturer of automatic shuffling machines and chip counting products, found her to be too flighty a companion.
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