Too bad businesses are typically run by dolts who don't have the slightest idea how to interpret the data. I've been in charge of "medical informatics" for a large firm and spent a startling amount of time having to explain the difference between a mean and a median to high-level executives.
Since your're in business school, buy a calculator that is specifically setup to support you in completing the coursework.
I used a TI BA2 when working on my MBA/MHA and it was an excellent fit for the coursework. You won't need the TI89s and other scientific calculators (they're overkill for b-school classes).
I'm in complete agreement...
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...that Neal's books often have abrupt endings & leave me wishing that he'd add a bit here and there (the open threads...). Come to think of it, his writing is much like every software project I've been involved in!
I'm willing to bet that an undergraduate degree in any liberal art field, coupled with a graduate degree in business & a decent understanding of technology, can lead to excellent earnings. It worked for me.
I just bought my girlfriend a new G4 Mac and at $2500 for the box (granted, it's a good one) there's no way Mac will overtake MSFT with the $500 boxes pushed by the likes of Dell.
SAP is a large software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
Their product is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that is comprised of one big honking database and a bunch of applications that are used in different parts of a large business (Accounts Receivable, Manufacturing, Purchasing, HR, etc.) that are supposedly integrated.
FYI: Several of the images on SCO's site appear to have been lifted from a Lands' End catalog. Since LE does their own photography, and does not license their images to others, it appears that SCO might have a little IP problem of their own.
is incredible. I recently bought one (DVORAK no less) and it's made interacting with my computer a lot more productive.
Also, I don't buy the story about difficulty in going between QWERTY and DVORAK as I do it each day between my home machines and the one I use at work. If there was a problem, it's not that expensive to buy two ($300... for good hardware, it's not a bad price!).
If anyone who reports to me preferred a non-QWERTY keyboard, I'd be happy to purchase one for him/her to use. It's very much akin to someone who is left handed wanting lefty scissors.
Buy a laptop projector and use it instead...
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It'd be maybe $1K for a used one & they're actually made for that purpose.
Catherine Harris was caught accepting a bribe from her cousin, Bill Griffin the founder and CEO of RISCORP. Somehow she avoided prison, Bill did not & had to serve several years.
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies has awesome internships. They pay well, you do real work, and if you do a good job it's likely that you'll have a job after you graduate.
Sorry to inform you, but mgmt no longer bothers with H1-B visas. The current approach is to sign with an offshore bodyshop (TCS, Mascot, etc.) for ~$30/hour, and the offshore resource comes to the US on a L-1 visa (no nasty quotas to deal with).
If you don't believe me, take a look at TCS's website. I recently resigned my position in IT because I saw the writing on the wall (you WILL be replaced by a lower cost resource!!!). I was formerly employed by the largest corporation in the world.
The larger companies are using L-1 visas now. They sign an outsourcing agreement with some bottom-of-the-barrel "consulting company" (TCS, Mascot, Satyam, etc.) and they'll bring hordes of people over for the low low price of about $35/hour.
Um, maybe I missed something in business school, but... this is ~$70/year for someone who is usually not very good at their job.
My impression from working with C-level folks at a nearly universally reviled conglomerate is that their motive is based on their goal of reducing "Base Cost" (ie salary costs) and they can expense their new and increasingly inept employees from a different cost bucket and thus get to keep their bonuses.
I work in eBusiness at a nearly universally reviled conglomerate (think lightbulbs and aircraft engines).
This company has tried time and again to offshore software development. It simply doesn't work for them (poor communciation, zero requirements, no solid testing procedures) thus they bring their "resources" onshore with H1B or L1 visas. They can't "downsize" while bringing these folks onshore, so they give many more of their employees poor performance evaluations and can fire them without screwing up their visa mill.
I'm surprised that no one brought up that Time Warner cable (provider of my cable modem service) might be diminishing AOLs subscriber base. What's really odd is that they didn't try to "upsell" me to AOL once I got the cable modem.
Get 'em each a CD burner, a pack of RW CDs, and offer 5 sessions to teach them how to use it. Publicize it beyond your branch, and write an SOP that is 1) approved by your corporate IT dept, 2) shared during the education sessions, and 3) sent to all users.
It sounds like a no-win situation as you'll likely be blamed whenever a shiftless user losers his/her data. Doing the above means that the sh#$ will rain on whoever is running the clown college.
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Too bad businesses are typically run by dolts who don't have the slightest idea how to interpret the data. I've been in charge of "medical informatics" for a large firm and spent a startling amount of time having to explain the difference between a mean and a median to high-level executives.
Since your're in business school, buy a calculator that is specifically setup to support you in completing the coursework.
I used a TI BA2 when working on my MBA/MHA and it was an excellent fit for the coursework. You won't need the TI89s and other scientific calculators (they're overkill for b-school classes).
...that Neal's books often have abrupt endings & leave me wishing that he'd add a bit here and there (the open threads...). Come to think of it, his writing is much like every software project I've been involved in!
I auctioned my old boss on eBay. I got $20, the high bidder got my old job.
I'm willing to bet that an undergraduate degree in any liberal art field, coupled with a graduate degree in business & a decent understanding of technology, can lead to excellent earnings. It worked for me.
I just bought my girlfriend a new G4 Mac and at $2500 for the box (granted, it's a good one) there's no way Mac will overtake MSFT with the $500 boxes pushed by the likes of Dell.
SAP is a large software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
Their product is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that is comprised of one big honking database and a bunch of applications that are used in different parts of a large business (Accounts Receivable, Manufacturing, Purchasing, HR, etc.) that are supposedly integrated.
FYI: Several of the images on SCO's site appear to have been lifted from a Lands' End catalog. Since LE does their own photography, and does not license their images to others, it appears that SCO might have a little IP problem of their own.
is incredible. I recently bought one (DVORAK no less) and it's made interacting with my computer a lot more productive.
Also, I don't buy the story about difficulty in going between QWERTY and DVORAK as I do it each day between my home machines and the one I use at work. If there was a problem, it's not that expensive to buy two ($300... for good hardware, it's not a bad price!).
If anyone who reports to me preferred a non-QWERTY keyboard, I'd be happy to purchase one for him/her to use. It's very much akin to someone who is left handed wanting lefty scissors.
It'd be maybe $1K for a used one & they're actually made for that purpose.
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Catherine Harris was caught accepting a bribe from her cousin, Bill Griffin the founder and CEO of RISCORP. Somehow she avoided prison, Bill did not & had to serve several years.
If you don't believe it, please check via Google.
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies has awesome internships. They pay well, you do real work, and if you do a good job it's likely that you'll have a job after you graduate.
I believe that good Quality Assurance protocols for critical systems is the key here (not certifications).
Sorry to inform you, but mgmt no longer bothers with H1-B visas. The current approach is to sign with an offshore bodyshop (TCS, Mascot, etc.) for ~$30/hour, and the offshore resource comes to the US on a L-1 visa (no nasty quotas to deal with).
If you don't believe me, take a look at TCS's website. I recently resigned my position in IT because I saw the writing on the wall (you WILL be replaced by a lower cost resource!!!). I was formerly employed by the largest corporation in the world.
The larger companies are using L-1 visas now. They sign an outsourcing agreement with some bottom-of-the-barrel "consulting company" (TCS, Mascot, Satyam, etc.) and they'll bring hordes of people over for the low low price of about $35/hour.
Um, maybe I missed something in business school, but... this is ~$70/year for someone who is usually not very good at their job.
My impression from working with C-level folks at a nearly universally reviled conglomerate is that their motive is based on their goal of reducing "Base Cost" (ie salary costs) and they can expense their new and increasingly inept employees from a different cost bucket and thus get to keep their bonuses.
I work in eBusiness at a nearly universally reviled conglomerate (think lightbulbs and aircraft engines).
This company has tried time and again to offshore software development. It simply doesn't work for them (poor communciation, zero requirements, no solid testing procedures) thus they bring their "resources" onshore with H1B or L1 visas. They can't "downsize" while bringing these folks onshore, so they give many more of their employees poor performance evaluations and can fire them without screwing up their visa mill.
I'm sooo outta IT.
You clearly do NOT go to an Ivy. Your grammar is horrid.
I'm surprised that no one brought up that Time Warner cable (provider of my cable modem service) might be diminishing AOLs subscriber base. What's really odd is that they didn't try to "upsell" me to AOL once I got the cable modem.
Get 'em each a CD burner, a pack of RW CDs, and offer 5 sessions to teach them how to use it. Publicize it beyond your branch, and write an SOP that is 1) approved by your corporate IT dept, 2) shared during the education sessions, and 3) sent to all users.
It sounds like a no-win situation as you'll likely be blamed whenever a shiftless user losers his/her data. Doing the above means that the sh#$ will rain on whoever is running the clown college.