Vaccine Patches

Researchers in Japan have now invented vaccine patches. Design features a series of microscopic needles that dissolve on contact with the skin, releasing vaccine ingredients.
Ref: Daily Telegraph/Brainmail

Karioke Capitalism

Check out this radio broadcast on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on a new book called "Karaoke Capitalism: Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World." Ridderstrale and Nordstrom focus the challenges of business leadership in a world increasingly defined by individualism. "Karaoke" capitalism refers to the philosophy of imitation, ingrained into the corporate mindset by such popular concepts as benchmarking and best practice. For Ridderstrale and Nordstrom, the only way to survive is to chuck convention, to embrace your company's individual personality and promote it through everything you do

http://broadcast.uwex.edu:8080/ramgen/wpr/bok/bok090524b.rm

Segement starts at 42:24 and goes to 46:06

Interview with 3M CEO George Buckley

From a WSJ article 3/1/2010 "At 3M, Innovation Comes in Tweaks and Snips" : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575075590963046162.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"Everybody wants to find out how to can creativity. You can't. Creativity comes from freedom, not control."
George Buckley 3M

Watch video snippets:

Funding Universe

Funding Universe is a free website that has collected company histories. I believe this is the same company information that is provided in Business & Company Resource Center.

Industry Norms and Ratios — Financial and Marketing

Industry Norms and Ratios covers industry norms and ratios for various industries and discusses models and "things of interest around industry data and analysis." Blog is run by Vince Mautone VP of product development and client services at Oxxford Information Technology.

Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series

A collection of 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series is now available in Business Source Complete.

These videos feature lectures from Harvard Business School faculty members, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

Each video contains a table of contents, allowing viewers to jump to a specific topic, and many also provide a transcript in PDF format.

Business Source Complete is available to current FSU students, faculty, staff, visitors on the library's A-Z database page.

Here is a list of the videos listed in the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.

For more information on these videos, please read the documentation, or contact me at"twyckoff@fsu.edu."

Bankrupcy Database

Free database of major bankruptcies since 1986. It is primarily publicly traded companies and selected private companies. You can search by company name, asset size, business type, and bankrupcy start date.
http://www.bankruptcydata.com/findabrtop.asp