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...grows most of its new jobs there or the next Cisco is actually created there?" That's not so farfetched, says Du Pont CEO Chad Holliday: "If the U.S. doesn't get its act together, Du Pont is going to go to the countries that do, and so are IBM and Intel. We'd much rather be here, but we have an obligation to our employees and shareholders to bring value where...
...those organizations focused in varying degrees on applied science--attempts to invent useful new technologies--but all of them put money into pure science as well. So did private corporations, including AT&T, IBM and Xerox, which hired not just engineers but also mathematicians, physicists, biologists and even astronomers and gave them free rein. The strategy led to utterly impractical but revolutionary discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the cosmos, to name just one example, got its first experimental proof at AT&T's Bell Labs...
...thing. Competitive pressure and the need to prop up stock prices forced many companies to abandon research and focus mostly on short-term product development. Freewheeling corporate research labs that didn't contribute visibly to the bottom line--AT&T's Bell Labs, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center--have been restructured...
...student who has ever wondered how Mather House’s next-door, red-towered brick beauty evolved into the bustling community it is today should have his questions answered this spring. This house seminar, however, is not a simply the random creation of IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, nor is the course an underhanded attempt to boost Dunster’s reputation and House pride. Instead, “Histories of Dunster House” is actually being offered as a celebration of the House’s 75th anniversary as a residential community...
...student who has ever wondered how Mather House’s next-door, red-towered brick beauty evolved into the bustling community it is today should have his questions answered this spring. This house seminar, however, is not a simply the random creation of IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, nor is the course an underhanded attempt to boost Dunster’s reputation and House pride. Instead, “Histories of Dunster House” is actually being offered as a celebration of the House’s 75th anniversary as a residential community...