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HP MFPs, Pharos Print Management Solution Deliver Convenience, Efficiency

Wharton School of The University wanted to offer convenient on-campus student print capabilities with a built-in chargeback system. The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania deployed new HP Multifunction Printers equipped with Pharos print management software. As a result released processes eliminates unwanted, wasteful printing, duplex printing default cuts...

Tags: Wharton School, Hewlett-Packard Co., Document Management, Portals, Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies 2009-05-01

Business School Students Choose Hosted Collaboration Tools to Improve Productivity

While the Wharton School provided students with Microsoft Exchange Server - based e-mail service, it also works closely with students to continually enhance their communication and collaboration services. Wharton decided to deploy Microsoft Live@edu, including Microsoft Exchange Labs as the e-mail component among a suite of hosted collaboration services. Today,...

Tags: Wharton School, Microsoft Exchange Server, Student, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Business School, Tool, Groupware, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications

Case studies 2008-10-01

Does moral intelligence lead to business success?

There is a powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success, or so the authors of Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success would have us believe. In this chapter download, investigate this possible connection. Learn about the specific competencies that constitute "moral intelligence" and why...

Tags: Wharton School, Leadership, Management

Download resources 2007-08-08

Avoid common management pitfalls that can lead a good company to go bad

Why do good companies go bad? Archival research on companies that have failed in the past several decades and interviews with people from these failed companies lead to the conclusions in this sample chapter from The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies and How to Break Them. Learn about...

Tags: Wharton School, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Download resources 2007-06-22

Supercharge your career by adopting the key attributes of outstanding leadership

Nightly Business Report Presents Long Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times documents and analyzes the key attributes of lasting leadership, offering managers valuable lessons that can supercharge their career. In this sample chapter, gain an insider's perspective into Andy...

Tags: Wharton School, Leadership, Professional Development, Management, Career

Download resources 2007-05-03

Turn life into your laboratory: Hone your mental-model skills and practice continuous adaptive experimentation

Get better at making sense of what's going on around you so you can make sound decisions—both in business and in everyday life—that respond to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. One way is through continuous adaptive experimentation. More than a plodding process of testing and discovery,...

Tags: Wharton School, Research & Development, Business Operations

Download resources 2006-11-01

Rich Internet Application Case Study: Picking Classes at the Wharton School

How are Rich Internet Applications changing people’s lives? Well at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MBA students are using a Rich Internet Application developed by Jason Lehman of the Student Services group to decide their...

Tags: Development tools, Wharton School, auction

Blog posts 2006-05-10

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Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharers

Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharersAnd after they lose alot of customers.. they will do what?I know these media companies think that ISP's should disconnect the users but why would an ISP cut off its feet?Its dumb. Let the courts handle it and if they dont want to, then...

Tags: INTERNET, sharer, file sharer, Virgin, piracy, suspension

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Google says it loves competition

With Justice Department scrutiny over the Google Books Settlement only the the leading edge of antitrust regulators' attention to Google, the company has launched a dog-and-pony show dedicated to combating the impression that more control is needed. In a presentation PDF acquired by Consumer Watchdog,...

Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Twitter needs young users and regular tweeters to grow past niche

Now that Twitter has received Oprah's Midas Touch and been the subject of a conference of its own - called Twtrcon - does that mean that it's "arrived?" Some might argue that Twitter's growth numbers in recent months are proof enough that the site has gone mainstream....

Tags: Twitter, Productivity, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-02

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'

Imagine drawing on floor-to-ceiling office windows with your finger, using them like a whiteboard, aided by contextual information right at your fingertips, translated as necessary. You haven't lost your marbles -- you're participating in a global corporate meeting, and your colleagues are doing the same thing on four other continents....

Tags: Software, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Consumer Quality, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Renowned Business School Quintuples Computing Power as It Builds Its Data Center of the Future With Dell Servers, Storage and Services

The Wharton School needed to refresh its IT infrastructure with ultra-dense servers and storage to minimize its footprint and maximize its compute and storage capabilities in a new data center. Wharton consolidated existing IBM BladeCenter and storage infrastructure onto the leaner, more powerful Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure with ultra-dense...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Blade, Computing, Business School, Dell Server, Storage, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2008-08-01

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

The 100 Greatest Short Stories 1.0 (Mobile)

Now you can enjoy these "byte-sized" masterpieces any time and anywhere with The 100 Greatest Short Stories. A timeless collection of the world's greatest short stories, it includes the works of authors such as O. Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Guy...

Tags: Mobile, Rampart Software Development, Maupassant, Adventure, Packletide, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-02-21

Wall Street Journal: Flash is coming to the iPhone

Kendall Whitehouse of the Wharton School pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal article today that talked about the lack of adoption by mobile users in browsing the web (the link is behind the Wall Street Journal pay vault but its titled Browsing Barriers: Consumers can use...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, iPhone, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, January 05, 2007

Hey, look at this, the first UDD of the new year. Im sorry Ive been slacking this week with these but Ive been swamped with work. I still have a lot of fun doing them so hopefully you enjoy a few of the links from time to time. ...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flex, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Universal Desktop Daily, Rich Media, Mix07, WPF

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Yahoo exec: Peanut Butter manifesto reaction annoying

Wenda Harris Millard, chief sales officer at Yahoo, found the reaction to Brad Garlinghouses "Peanut Butter manifesto" annoying. Speaking at a UBS media and telecommunications conference in New York Millard said: "The reality is you could take Yahoos name off that memo and put on the name of...

Tags: Wenda Harris Millard, Google, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Pearson's wiki business book

Our world has certainly changed if Pearson, the publishing giant behind the Financial Times, Les Echos or Penguin Books, has decided to use a wiki to create a new business book. According to the Wall Street Journal in U.K.s Pearson Tests The Group Dynamic For a Wiki Book (paid registration...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Social Sciences

Blog posts 2006-11-21