29 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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Nobel Prize Winners

1920 John C. Harsanyi  Economics
         Pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1994/harsanyi-facts.html
About Harsanyi http://www.almaz.com/nobel/economics/1994a.html

1929 Peter Higgs
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/higgs-facts.html

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1860 Willem Einthoven -  Medicine
          http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1924/einthoven-facts.html
1934 Bengt I. Samuelsson - Medicine
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1982/samuelsson-facts.html
1936 Günter Blobel  -  Medicine
          http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1999/blobel-facts.html


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2014 Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M awared the 100,000th degree.
         http://kagstv.com/News/KAGSNews/ID/3795/AM-Engineering-Presents-100000th-Degree-to-Lucky-Graduate

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1927 Manfred Eigen  Chemistry
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1967/eigen-facts.html

1947 - Michael Levitt - Chemistry
          http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/levitt-facts.html

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2014 Demand for engineering plastics is growing.
         http://allnewsvideos.com/2014/05/09/increasing-consumption-in-key-end-use-sectors-drive-demand-for-engineering-plastics-according-to-new-report-by-global-industry-analysts-inc/

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1899 Friedrich August von Hayek  Economics
         Brief Biography and List of Works  http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Hayek.html
         Hayek Nobel Prize Lecture - The Pretense of Knowledge
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1974/hayek-lecture.html

          2014 - Hayek Still Relevant - http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/050714-700009-hayeks-free-market-ideas-still-hold-power.htm
       
1902 André Lwoff  Medicine
1947 H. Robert Horvitz  Medicine

Others

1894 - Benjamin Graham ( Graham and Dodd's Equity Analysis  -  Graham-Rao Method for India  )


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1877 Ole Evinrude the inventor of the outboard marine engine was born.


Noble Prize winners

1905 Glenn Theodore Seaborg  - Chemistry
Biography - Seaborg
Nobel Lecture - Transuranium Elements - Present Status - 12 December 1951

1944 James J. Heckman  - Economics
Biography - James Heckman
Nobel Lecture - Contribution of Microeconometrics to Economic Knowledge

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Marketing Communications in Digital Media

In digital media creative is only beginning. Once, it is posted in the digital media, the conversation begins with comments. How the communicators behave in response is important in digital media. One has to talk to digital media public and engage them in conversation.

Consumers are happy to look at hoarding. They expect only ads.  But on digital media, they are not coming mainly to see ads. They are present on the digital media for conversation and information.

A discussion with Karthik Krishnan - ibs ( Confession box - Lost in Translation)
Brand Equity, 16 April, 2014

Supplier Risk Management - Open Ratings DNBi Supply Management

Supplier Risk Management

The underlying driver of this initiative is better risk management. If a supplier is headed for crisis, lean companies  want to know about long before it impacts the business—and more importantly—in time to actually do something to prevent it.
Unforeseen supplier-related issues can significantly affect a supply chain's business: The cost to switch suppliers is extremely high, and the impact of missed deliveries can be crippling financially. Signing on solely with Tier-1 suppliers doesn’t provide the security needed, and the globalized nature of today’s supply bases adds  yet another level of complexity.

To overcome these challenges, deep, predictive supplier insights are available from Open Ratings
to monitor the financial and operational performance of thousands of suppliers worldwide. As a result,
these experts have at their fingertips far more detailed information than ever before, creating a foundation
for insightful collaboration—as well as a system of  early warning alerts.

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