Meeting

What’s to come during the Open Field’s summer-long experiment? Join us for a social hour, followed by a chance to share ideas and pose questions about the cultural commons. What constitutes a community of shared ideas, artworks, and other resources? How do age-old ideas about the commons translate to today’s digital world? Guests for this conversation present ideas from an array of fields, including new media, philosophy, education, law, and history

Speakers include:
Michael Edson is the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution and is leading an initiative called the Smithsonian Commons.

Sumanth Gopinath, musicologist interested in the intersections of race, ethnicity, music and the ringtone industry.

Jon Ippolito, artist, writer and curator interested in building and sustaining networks and breaking down hierarchical media and culture.

Laura Musacchio, landscape design educator and researcher interested in human-nature interactions in metropolitan, cultural and bioregional landscapes.

Caroline Woolard, artist and co-founder of OurGoods, a barter network for independent projects.

Duration : 1:43:20

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HighEdWeb 2008 Conference keynote by Kyle Ford, director of product marketing at Ning, Inc., and previously the associate product manager at Yahoo! Inc.

Duration : 0:58:25

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Google’s Transformers with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product Management, Enterprise, Mario Queiroz, VP Product Management, Android, Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience and Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, Client

Duration : 1:15:33

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Conjoint analysis or stated preference analysis is used in many of the social sciences and applied sciences including marketing, product management, and operations research. The presentation explains the principle, using a simple example. It shows, how to calculate the part-worth utilities and how to derive the relative preferences from individual attributes from there. A full factorial and a fractional factorial design is used. An Excel template for this example is available from the author.

Duration : 0:9:32

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Conjoint analysis or stated preference analysis is used in many of the social sciences and applied sciences including marketing, product management, and operations research. The presentation explains the principle, using a simple example. It shows, how to calculate the part-worth utilities and how to derive the relative preferences from individual attributes from there. A full factorial and a fractional factorial design is used. An Excel template for this example is available from the author.

Duration : 0:9:52

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Conjoint analysis or stated preference analysis is used in many of the social sciences and applied sciences including marketing, product management, and operations research. The presentation explains the principle, using a simple example. It shows, how to calculate the part-worth utilities and how to derive the relative preferences from individual attributes from there. A full factorial and a fractional factorial design is used. An Excel template for this example is available from the author.

Duration : 0:9:52

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May 12, 2010…Hiring Reform Roll Out Part 2 with information about changes in the hiring process.

Duration : 1:17:18

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Part of 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship.
What things typically trip up an entrepreneur in starting and running a company? Is it getting the right business partner? Is it having the killer technology? How does one recover from major setbacks? A panel of seasoned entrepreneurs, angels, venture capitalists, and board members discuss the common pitfalls most new entrepreneurs encounter when building their businesses.

Duration : 1:5:56

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Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is the author of the widely read investment book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. He has also authored several other books, including the recently published The Elements of Investing.

Dr. Malkiel has long held professorships in economics at Princeton, where he was also chairman of the Economics Department. He also served as the dean of the Yale School of Management and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies. Dr. Malkiel is a past president of the American Finance Association and the International Atlantic Economic Association, and a past appointee to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He continues to serve on several corporate and investment management boards.

Duration : 1:11:45

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Google Tech Talk
April 8, 2010

ABSTRACT

Presented by W. David Schwaderer.

Innovation is essential for all progress and competitive survival. It provides a democratic vehicle for individuals and upstarts to challenge and neutralize powerful incumbents. Yet, because change accompanies innovation, it is a double-edged sword.

This presentation examines the historical reception transformative scientific breakthroughs initially received before widespread adoption. By example, it teaches principles that can help ensure change agents personally, and their organizations, are on the delivering side of innovation’s sharp edge.

W. David Schwaderer has a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He has worked at IBM, EDS, Adaptec, Symantec, and Silicon Valley startups. He has authored six commercial software programs for a variety of machine architectures using several different languages, dozens of articles, and ten technical books that explain complex technology in approachable ways. David’s soon-to-be-published 11th book follows over 10 years of research and is titled “Innovation Survival – Concept, Courage, Chance, and Change”.

Duration : 0:59:56

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