Tips From MBA Students On How To Succeed In The Program in USA

Interesting Tip

Benchmark against yourself. See how much you are progressing in your knowledge and skills in the area of management. Do not be frightened by seeing others' progress. Develop at your comfortable pace. But make the best use of institute infrastructure, faculty and fellow learners.



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19 October Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1860 -  The Società Anonima del nuova motore Barsante e Matteucci (Anonymous Society of the New Barsanti and Matteucci Engine) was formed in Florence, Italy, to manufacture internal combustion engines.  On 5 Jun 1853, Father Eugenio Barsante and engineer Felice Matteucci were the first to record having designed a three-stroke gas engine. They obtained British patents. The first engine in actual operation was installed in 1856 at the Maria Antonia Railway Station in Florence.


1973 -  A US Federal Judge  declared the ENIAC patent invalid and belatedly credited physicist John Atanasoff with developing the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff- Berry Computer or the ABC. It was built in 1937-42 at Iowa State University by Atanadoff and a graduate student, Clifford Berry.


2012 - An announcement was made that engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS), England has developed a way to create petrol from air and water. Initial plan is to make a plant that will make 1,200 litres a day.

Birthdays

1862 - Auguste Lumiere

1910 Subramanyam Chandrasekhar  (Nobel in 1983)

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20 October Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1906 - Vacuum tube


Birthdays

1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett, 1886
was  Britain's most outstanding cognitive psychologist between the World Wars. He wrote on practical (ergonomic) problems in applied psychology, but is best-known for his pioneering cognitive approach to understanding human memory. In forming one of the earliest models of memory, Bartlett observed that in remembering stories or events there is a tendency for distortions to occur.
Future of Ergonomics - An article by Bartlett

1891 - Sir James Chadwick

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14 October Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1863 - Nobel's first patent

1884 - Patent to Eastman

1947 - First Super Sonic Flight

Birthdays

1840 - Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch

1857 - Elwood Haynes - Inventor - Gasoline powered car., Stellite alloy

1900 William Edwards Deming  Death 23 December 1993
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http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/total-quality-management-focus-on-six.html

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October - Month Birthdays - Management Scholars and Professionals

1 - Don Peppers (1950)
2 - Geert Hofstede (1928)  - National Culture
3
4 - William Gibb Dyer (1925)
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6 - Malcolm McNair (1894),
      Thomas O. Jones (1944),
      Kenneth Morse (1946)
7 - Kenneth W. Bilby (1918)
8 - C. Jackson Grayson Jr. (1923)
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10
11 - H.J. Heinz
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13 - John Roger Commons (1862)
14 - W. Edwards Deming (1900)  - Quality Management  http://mtrrp.blogspot.in/2014/05/total-quality-management-approach.html
        Stefano Gatti (1967)
15 - Stanley Fischer (1943), Michael Monroe Lewis (1960)
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21 - Alfred Nobel (1833)
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24 - Stephen Covey (1932)  - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
25 - Mike L. Fry (1960)
26 - Charles E. Bedaux (1886)
27 - Edwin Francis Gay (1867)
28 - Lawrence E. Fouraker (1923)
29 - Captain Henry Metcalfe (1847) - Cost of Manufacture
        Jeffrey E. Garten (1946)
30 - Myron Tribus (1921)
31 - Paul Terry Cherington (1876), Karl Edward Weick (1936)

Principles of Information Systems - Ralph M. Stair and George W. Reynolds - Book Information

Principles of Information Systems



Ralph M. Stair, George W. Reynolds

Cengage Learning, 01-Jan-2011 - Computers - 704 pages
Stair/Reynolds' PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 10E puts today's principles of information systems first, where they belong! This streamlined edition focuses on the core IS principles that are most important in business studies or careers. Readers gain


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12 October Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1920 - Construction of  Holland Tunnel was started between NJ and New York
1964 - Voshkod I was launched by USSR

Birthdays

1860 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry (Inventor)
1865 - Sir Arthur Harden (Nobel L)


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13 October Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1868 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent, by signing and dating his application. It was received by the U.S. Patent Office with an application date of 28 Oct 1868, and it was issued as No. 90,646 on 1 Jun 1869. The invention was an “Electrographic Vote-Recorder,” which can be used by legislative bodies, such as the U.S. Congress. It would enable the ligislators to vote for or against an issue by turning a switch to the right or left.

1953 - Patent for Ultrasonic Alarm


Bithdays

1776 - Peter Barlow (Inventor)
1787 - William Brockendon - Inventor

John Roger Commons


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Management Blogs and Websites

Websites of Famous Thinkers and Professors of Management

Harry Mintzberg - Articles  - Links to many articles of Mintzberg are available


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