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JacksonLine - December 2008

 

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On the Road with Jackson Library

  • Keep up with the latest business news during the Winter Break with Factiva. Read daily articles from the pages of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post.

  • Take home a New York Times bestseller such as Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell or The Post American World by Fareed Zacaria.

  • Check out The Dip by Seth Goodin in Audio format from our Media Center for the ride home.

  • Visit the Jackson Library website to read the latest business Blogs, Hot Topics or Highlights of New Industry & Market Research.

No matter where in the world you land during winter break, Jackson Library's resources are available to you.

food boxes imageFood for Fines

Tis the season of giving and you can erase your library overdue fines by donating to the GSB Food Donation Drive. The library will credit $2 against your outstanding fines for each non-perishable food item placed in the Library’s donation collection box.

The deadline to clear your fines and provide food to those in need is December 19th. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season from all of us at Jackson.

When You Are Away From the GSB - use webapps

If you are not on the GSB premises, or at Schwab, you will need to log into WebApps to access these databases. To access webapps:

  1. Login WebApps using your SUNet ID and password.
     
  2. Open Internet Explorer browser. The GSB Home page will display.
     
  3. Go to Library site by clicking on 'Faculty / Research', then 'Jackson Library'.
     
  4. Go to the desired Databases list (A-Z, or by topic).
     
  5. Click on the database name to access the database.

 

Popular Business Book Shelf  

Read the latest business books from the New York Times and Business Week best sellers list. New titles are added monthly. This month's additions:

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We Are Smarter Than Me:  How To Unleash The Power of Crowds in Your Business. True to its name, this little book is the joint creation of authors Libert and Spector and a crowd of contributors, including faculty, students and business people from Wharton, MIT and elsewhere.   The authors claim at the outset that “the book is far better than anything WE as individuals could have authored in that it represents the collective wisdom of our respective communities … “.  Readers are invited to join in the dialogue with their own blogs and podcasts on the topic of social networking and its effectiveness. HD69.S8 L53 2008

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Uber-pollster John Zogby’s The Way We’ll Be:  The Zogby Report on The Transformation of The American Dream  challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. is isolated from the world, politically fragmented and materialistic.  Drawing on thousands of interviews, Zogby predicts the future.  He sees the American Dream in transition, being redefined by four meta-movements:  living within limits, embracing diversity, looking inward for guidance and demanding authenticity.  Spearheaded by today’s 18-29 year old “First Global Generation”, Zogby argues we are becoming more internationalist, environmentally-conscious, and consenus-oriented and less job-obssessed than ever. HN90.P8 Z64 2008

 

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Say it Ain’t So! Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect is the title of a new book by Vahan Janjigian of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute.  Subtitled ‘What You Can – and Can’t – Learn From The World’s Greatest Investor’, the book attempts to dispel myths about Buffett and his investment style, and show readers how to learn from the master while avoiding strategies that don’t apply to small investors.  Steve Forbes pronounces the book “neither a love letter nor a put-down”, while Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at S&P writes  “In 2006, Warren shared with Bill [Gates] the Buffett fortune. Now, Vahan shares with us the Buffett wisdom”. See if you agree. HG4521.J286 2008

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Two Years At That Other Place. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School  ) by Philip Delves Broughton describes his experiences as an HBS student after he quit his post as Paris bureau chief for the London Daily Telegraph.  Drawn by Harvard’s tradition of excellence, the author describes the  School’s case-based curriculum and offers his own views after pondering more than 500 cases.  He also exposes some of the less savory aspects, such as the “booze luge” and the weight of depression that torments overburdened students.  An interesting perspective during this centenary year of the HBS. HF1134.H4 B76 2008

New additions to Business Web Sites

Each month we review business websites and add the best to our Business Web sites. This month's additions are:

FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

Doing Company Research is a site that contains listings, descriptions, and contact/purchase information for dozens of print, online, and web-based company directories. Consider this site if you want to find out what directories provide which kind of information on companies, and where to locate the directories.

Global Wind Energy Council site provides support for the wind energy industry. Read about business opportunities as well as the latest news and information about this important source of renewable electricity.

 

Santa's Travels

Santa on his sleigh with reindeer
Due to the time zones, Santa has 31 hours to deliver gifts. This means in 2008 he has to visit an average 1667 houses per second. Santa you are amazing.


Jack's Shopping advice

Does holiday shopping have you flumoxed? Jack has few ideas to get you started but if all else fails there is always chocolate.


Accessories, clothes, gifts:
Sundance
Anthropologie
girlshop.com
REI
Urban Outfitters


Fun Stuff
Uncommon Goods
Surprise
Wishing Fish
Estsy - handmade gifts
Signals


Toys
Learning Express
FAO Schwartz

 

Jack's Favorite Quote of the Month

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."

~John Kenneth Galbraith ~

Canadian- American Economist, Author, Educator and Civil Servant
(October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006)

 

 

Send your comments, questions, suggestions to [icon-email] Jan Driscoll.