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Tapping into the For |
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| If we view the world萸� population as a pyramid ?with the richest people at the top, and poorest people at the broad base ?it may surprise you to realize that some of the best business opportunities await those who target the bottom of the pyramid. |
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Space: The Final Eco |
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| Forty to fifty years ago, space stations and commercial space travel were part and parcel of nearly everyone��셲 vision of the 21st century. We all remember the ��쏱an Am space-plane��� arriving at the enormous rotating space station in the early moments of Stanley Kubrick��셲 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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The Long and Short o |
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| We��셶e recently experienced oil price fluctuations that remind us of the economic importance of fossil fuels. But, just how important is petroleum today and going forward? What are the shortterm, medium-term, and long-term trends driving oil prices? What��셲 likely to happen to oil prices and what are the implications? |
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Companies Learn and |
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| Most organisms behave like complex adaptive systems. As their parts sense and respond to conditions outside the system that constantly change, each part interacts with and influences the other parts in the system. Ultimately, this yields new patterns of behavior for the overall system. |
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Location-Based Techn |
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| When General Motors introduced OnStar in some of its Cadillac models in 1996, it was pioneering an industry known as location-based services ?or LBS. Because of the existence of global positioning satellites that can triangulate the position of a GPS transmitter anywhere in the world, GM had the idea that roadside assistance and other services could be delivered to drivers in their cars on a subscription basis. |
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