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Most people can agree on what Santa Claus looks like -- jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola advertising actually helped shape this modern-day image of Santa.
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
1.12.08
Coca-Cola Christmas
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17.11.08
15.9.08
Web is life. Television is furniture.
In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some lessons and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
20.5.08
Thinking-Big and Scaling Up
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Fazle Abed's organization BRAC has attained success in fighting poverty on an unparalleled scale -- in Bangladesh and now in several other countries. He shares his experiences as a leader of the citizen sector, and offers advice to like-minded organizations seeking to create viable, broad and long-lasting change.
17.5.08
16.5.08
Keep It Simple Stupid!
David-Pogue opens his talk with a musical number about the trials of customer support, then launches into some sharp commentary on "The Software Upgrade Paradox" ("Improve a piece of software enough times, you eventually ruin it").
Thug-Life
In an eye-opening talk -- presented before the publication of Freakonomics -- Steven-Levitt presents one of the book's more fascinating analyses. Sifting data collected through first-person interviews with a Chicago drug gang, he shows that drug dealing is not at all a quick route to riches.
Doing-Business in Africa
Negative images of Africa dominate the news: famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria, says there's a less-told story unfolding in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity. Cracking down on corruption -- and the perception of corruption -- will be the key to its success.
She tells how Nigerian officials taking money illicitly have been jailed, and prospective business partners are getting at least a partial picture now.
The Five-Predictions
Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas-Negroponte waxes on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word "convergence," Negroponte was thinking about the "electronic books of the future" and computers as the future of education.
In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED's 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project.
15.5.08
Building Social Business Ventures
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Dr. Yunus shares his strategies for building businesses dedicated to the social good. He describes the founding and structure of Grameen Bank, Grameenphone and other companies he has created to find new solutions.
Innovator for the Poor
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In response to the overwhelming poverty in Bangladesh, Fazle H. Abed created the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, or BRAC. His organization has already helped lift over 35 million people out of poverty through comprehensive education, health-care and microfinance programs in Bangladesh.
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Creating a Poverty-Free World
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Dr. Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, offers his insights into what is required to eradicate global poverty. Yunus envisions a new kind of capitalism, and demonstrates how his organizations, the Grameen-Bank and the Grameen Family of Companies, offer viable solutions to pervasive poverty.
Open-Innovation in Services
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Over the last few years, BT has been transforming its business from a telco to a networked service provider, based on "new wave" revenues.
BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) is an important part of that transition. It is an end-to-end IP-based network, which will consolidate BT's complex networks and systems on to a single infrastructure. In particular, it will enable the creation of new converged communications and information services -- by BT, third parties and its customers. 21CN is a platform for open innovation.
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