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Overacademization And Ph D Titles
Keller, Morton, and Phyllis Keller (2001). Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University. Story behind the Passage Today in the morning, I received breaking news on my cell phone that went: “Minister for Family Affirs resigns from office.” This is not the first time that this happens to a leading politician. We have been…
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Existentialist Freedom
Beauvoir, Simone de (2009/1949). The Second Sex, 37. Story behind the Passage Today in my Feminist reading circle, we discussed Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex. I never read the whole thing before but as soon as I started reading the first chapters again in preparation for the course, I immediately felt catapulted back to the time…
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Processes Like Zippers
Paksoy, Turan et al., eds. (2019). Lean and Green Supply Chain Management: Optimization Models and Algorithms. Story behind the Passage Somehow, the past always comes back to you. Or maybe you make it come back. Whatever you believe in — it does not matter. Just enjoy whatever life allows you to encounter. And for me, this currently…
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Is Writing Art Or What
Shakir, Evelyn (2014). Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Memoirs of an Arab-American Woman, 73. Story behind the Passage Any text starting with “is it this…” or “that…” can be taken to set up an either/or logic that frames the piece in a questionable way. That is actually the whole point of my contribution today. I am not…
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Business Women And Identity
Kwolek-Folland, Angel (1994). Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1. Story behind the Passage “All this neo-liberal terminology, we should get rid of it altogether.“ This is what self-declared critical thinkers like to say. You know what, I understand all the critical thinking but the point is, it is also getting on my…
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Selling Lemons
Akerlof, George A. (1970). “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism, 488. Story behind the Passage Again, I have to stress that I am losing track of all my blog topics. I swear I once thought about writing about the lemon paper above, which is a classic in economics. But I am…
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Karl
Sahner, Karl (2009). Karl, 181. Story behind the Passage Karl Lagerfeld is one of my biggest roles models. There you go — now it is out. He is one of the few people on this planet who really walked the talk and he resisted all mainstream ideas and temptations. Sure, it is tempting to satfisfy your ego with…
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Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1994/1926). The Great Gatsby, 188. Story behind the Passage Today I looked at the website of a colleague of mine from the U.S. Well, she is more of a successful role model in our business than a colleague. I looked at her work and I could see the American Dream behind it. What…
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Writing Ads
Frome, Shelley (2009). The Art and Craft of Screenwriting: Fundamentals, Methods Advice from Insiders, 214. Story behind the Passage Yesterday in my Social Entrepreneurship class we talked about THINX and Miki Agrawal’s book. No worries, the semester is going to be over soon and I am not going to start that many more posts with…
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Moving Images Moving People
Schulz-Bruhdoel, Norbert (2005). Die PR- und Pressefibel: Zielgerichtete Medienarbeit: Ein Praxisbuch für Ein- und Aufsteiger, 134. Story behind the Passage There are so many things that entrepreneurs learn on their journey. One is: You never know what the day brings when you get up. That is quite a dumb statement, of course, because it applies…