June 2008 Archives
I worked at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge delivering executive education programs. Once, I took this photo of the front of the school to send it to my children to show them where I worked when I traveled to the UK. I took it from my mobile phone. Several months ago the publisher of travel guides, Schmap, emailed me saying they wanted to use one of my photos. I agreed, and now it is published in Schmap!! England. Here is what it says about the University of Cambridge in the description that accompany's the photo:
University of Cambridge
The Old Schools
Trinity Lane
Cambridge, CB2 1TN
Tel: +44 1223 33 7733
Most first-time visitors to Cambridge come with one aim: to see the university. But where is it? There is no sole university site, but rather the university's 31 colleges are scattered around the city. The university is said to date from 1209, when students fled riots in Oxford and settled in Cambridge. The oldest, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284; the newest, Robinson, in 1977. The colleges come in all shapes and sizes: from small postgraduate Clare Hall, built in the late 60s, to the grand Tudor expanse of Trinity. Every student is affiliated to a college, and each college is self-governing and financially independent. The university controls the faculties, subject departments, central administration (the Old Schools and the Senate House), museums, the printing press and the Botanic Garden.
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Law Times - May 26, 2008 page 11. Daryl-Lynn Carlson wrote an article for the Law times describing how law libraries and the knowledge management functions are merging in many firms. In fact, this has been happening for some time in professional service firms. The work of librarians is so similar to the work of knowledge managers, it provides a natural way for librarians to increase their skills and participate in a more valuable role for the firm. Librarians become expert at answering questions that require research into the law or business. The work of the law firm adds value to the work done by a librarian and with the research can deliver recommendations to a client. Keeping a record of these decisions and the context of the decisions is critically important. Who better than a Librarian to index the content, create the access framework, and retrieve the data.
This type of change should be driven by the management of law libraries.
Even with all the turmoil in the financial markets E&Y Sees Initial Offerings Surging in the U.S. - Capital Markets - CFO.com. I have been extremely impressed with Nouriel Roubini's predictions about the capital markets, and I still think he is right. Mr. Roubini feels that financial markets and financial institutions are under severe stress.
"The E&Y report, however, points out that although subprime jitters slowed the new issue market after the U.S. liquidity crunch started in the second quarter of 2007, the third-quarter interest rate cut put the domestic IPO market back on track toward record issuance levels in the fourth quarter. Although the U.S. economy continues to slow, it says, the Federal Reserve is expected to continue easing interest rates, with recaps at financial institutions maintaining their pace from the first quarter."
"E&Y notes, however, that despite the recent uptrend, the U.S. IPO market is losing global market share. From 2004 through 2007, it says, the volume of IPOs worldwide more than doubled, from $130 billion to about $280 billion. And the U.S. has been a minor participant in that growth. Most of the growth has come out of Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), largely Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, and to a significant degree Asia."
