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  • The Flap over Cisco’s Flip: Why the Company Killed off a Popular Product
    The Flip a quick and easy video recorder that captures spontaneous moments for instant uploading to YouTube is about to fold. Cisco Systems which bought the Flip just two years ago is closing the business in a move that illustrates how rapidly evolving technology and business strategies can force major corporate flip-flops.

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    11 min
  • Estée Lauder’s William Lauder: ’The Consumer Still Wants and Needs to Be Touched’
    Estée Lauder -- the $7.8 billion cosmetics and beauty products giant founded in 1946 -- has grown to more than 25 brands in 140 countries. The company clearly knows its customers 95% of whom are women. In a recent interview with Knowledge at Wharton William Lauder the company’s executive chairman and the grandson of founder Estée Lauder discussed the challenges of working in a family-owned business the company’s global growth aspirations and why the key to success is ”getting women to put their hands together.”

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    23 min
  • Lowering the Deficit: The Choices Range from Drastic to Draconian
    The United States government spends more than it takes in a practice that is illegal in most state governments and harshly criticized when households and businesses do it. After being the rule rather than the exception for most of the past century why is the country’s deficit spending such a big deal now? Is the U.S. really on the edge of a precipice? Will the deficit-reduction plans under consideration in Washington work? How painful will the remedies be? Wharton faculty and other experts weigh in.

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    19 min
  • Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale: ’Paper Books Will Evolve into More Precious Products’
    Alberto Vitale was running Bantam Books the world leader in paperbacks when the Newhouse family recruited him to become the COO of Random House. In that role and later as the CEO of one of the world’s top publishing firms Vitale oversaw huge changes in the publishing industry. In this interview with Stephen J. Kobrin publisher and executive director of Wharton Digital Press and Knowledge at Wharton Vitale discusses the rise of digital publishing the future of bookstores and the globalization of copyright among other issues.

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    41 min
  • Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans
    Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist hedge fund manager derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring -- who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student -- about events in the Middle East the oil supply investing in options the U.S. economy the dollar health care and of course black swans.

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    38 min
  • The Ouster of Muhammad Yunus: Can Politics Destroy Grameen Bank?
    ”Dismissed.” A single word from Bangladesh’s highest court ended a bitter legal battle that has grabbed world attention. The loser in this case: Muhammad Yunus the 70-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of Grameen Bank the groundbreaking Bangladeshi microfinance institution he is no longer allowed to run. But as with many of the highs and lows of microfinance there is much more than meets the eye to this boardroom shakeout.

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    19 min
  • Another Tech Bubble? Separating the Froth from the Facts
    Valuations are growing aggressively for Facebook Groupon and a handful of other social media darlings. But does that growth signal the coming of another tech bubble? Not necessarily say Wharton faculty and other experts who note that the main issues are the extent to which these valuations are supported by real staying power and whether or not these companies are having an undue influence across the tech landscape.

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    15 min
  • Keeping Its Distance: Can the Fed Be Effective Innovative -- and Independent?
    The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank played a central role in mounting a response to the financial crisis of 2008. Battling unprecedented disasters the Fed responded with what experts describe as creative even heroic measures. But in the wake of that crisis the Fed faces new challenges including an increasingly critical Congress at a time when the central bank’s responsibilities have expanded in significant ways. Observers question whether the Fed can continue to effectively monitor the financial landscape while also keeping clear of the politicians in Washington.

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    13 min
  • In the Health Care Sector Who Should Choose Which Treatment Is Best?
    Each day workers in the health care field debate the most reliable course of action for treating a particular ailment. As part of U.S. health care reform new emphasis is being placed on comparative effectiveness research (CER) which pits remedies against one another to determine which is best. A new paper by Wharton professor Scott Harrington warns that the government should avoid developing a monopoly on CER and offers suggestions for sparking interest from private sector researchers.

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    14 min

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