Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Communications and related activities have played a major role in my work over the past twenty years. The key reason is that over this period, I have been involved in a number of emerging business opportunities such as the Internet and e-business, Linux, cloud computing and digital money. Marketing and communications are essential when introducing…
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Toward the end of 2010, The Economist published The World in 2011, its annual issue with predictions for the following year on the variety of topics it normally covers. As summarized in the introductory article From the Editor, the 2011 predictions presented a balanced view of the next year, articulating both the magnitude of the…
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I just saw Julie and Julia on DVD. The film intertwines two stories. The main story starts in 1948 when Julia Child and her diplomat husband Paul arrived in Paris, and traces her transformation from recently married housewife looking for something to do, to the legend she became after the publication of Mastering the Art…
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I spent the first week of November as Innovator in Residence at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. As part of my activities during the week, Dean Ernest Wilson hosted a conference on Social Media: Platform of Provocation for Innovation?. The half-day conference consisted of two panels: one on the social and technological innovation…
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I spent the first week of November at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. USC Annenberg is one of the largest and most comprehensive schools of its kind in the world, with research and educational programs in communications, journalism, public diplomacy, public relations, media, educations and related areas. It is thus in a unique…
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Last week I wrote about my participation in the BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit, an event sponsored by the Business Innovation Factory in Providence. The BIF innovation summits make use of a unique storytelling format. Their goal is "to let great people tell great stories," which are later available to all in their Innovation Story Studio. …
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I spent last week in London at Imperial College where earlier this year I was appointed adjunct professor in the Innovation Group of the Tanaka Business School. As you can imagine, in such a world-class institution there are quite a number of exciting projects going on. But one in particular caught my attention. In early…
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Summer is usually the season for blockbuster movies, which usually feature lots of action, special effects, heroic characters, superstar actors, huge budgets, and so on. I watch my share of these movies, enjoying some a lot (e.g., Batman Begins), others less so. But, in the last few years, I have increasingly enjoyed watching what are…
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I recently attended a very interesting lecture on Chinese-American relations by Steven Weber, professor of political science and director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Weber’s central point is that the Sino-American relationship is now central to the health of the global political economy, but it is not a healthy relationship…
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I think that many of us first learn about broken hearts through baseball. One of the earliest memories of my childhood was when my team, Almendares lost a game to their fierce rivals, Habana, in the Cuban baseball winter league. I was about 3 at the time, and still remember being very sad and crying. …