Carly Fiorina Speaks Her Mind!

Ever wish you could sit down with a corporate CEO to discuss things?

Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard (1999-2005) recently spoke at Stanford University (audio file) about her journey from being a medieval history major, law school dropout, a secretary... to the leader of one of the biggest technology companies in the world. Fiorina describes ways in which leadership in business and entrepreneurship entails developing an appetite for risk and overcoming the fear of change. Fiorina offers her own 3Cs of leadership... capability, collaboration and character.

Isn't it interesting that many executives these days want to shrink their thoughts down to only words that begin with "C"?

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Profit Optimization

The local paper today carried an interesting article about profit optimization... the art and science of re-arranging prices to generate maximum overall income... and profit.

This, of course, is a familiar story... airlines have been doing this for years. But now the technology is starting to be used in retail stores, and this is a trend that is definitely worth watching!

Leaders in the field include:

Profit Logic

Khimetrics

DemandTec

What do YOU think? How could this technology be used in YOUR industry?

NEW Business and Management Search Engine

Professionals and MBA students typically have very precise questions and information needs. General search engines may be great for general information about a wide variety of subjects, but wouldn't it be great to use a search engine specifically tailored for the task at hand... say, finding financial information about mergers and acquisitions?

Now you can!

A new search engine has just been released for business and management inquiries.

Xexco Ltd. today launched knuru, a new knowledge resource that uses natural language search to pull relevant results from business information. As part of the launch, knuru will feature top-tier articles and research from the Wharton School's business journal, Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu ).

knuru allows the user to search using K@W, knuru.com and the research function embedded in Microsoft Office. Natural language search allows users to type short descriptive sentences rather than keywords into the search box, and get deeply relevant responses to their queries. Rather than return a list of ranked Web pages, knuru delivers fewer, more targeted findings that are ranked and ordered according to the relevancy of the search query and are not influenced by page rankings or sponsors. The combination of natural search, ranked by relevancy from a pool of professional content, results in a superior search experience for users.