<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Management News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=1&amp;catid=7</link><description>News Feed for - Management</description><item><title>Product Design Consultants - Design Management - The strategic case for design</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96200480&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T02:21:00</pubDate><description>The design process has the potential to significantly improve your business. The quality and appropriateness of the design solutions you create directly determines the future success of your company. </description><source>Applegate</source></item><item><title>STUDY: Air cars not worth it</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96109674&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:18:00</pubDate><description>Compressed air-powered cars like the AirPod pictured above are conceptually cool. But the real-world efficiency of using compressed air to move a vehicle just isn't worth is, says a new study published </description><source>New York Times</source></item><item><title>IBM Analytics to Provide Real-Time Analysis and Delivery of Tax Information for </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96017069&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T02:45:00</pubDate><description>IBM) today announced that Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (NYSE: JTX), a leader in the tax preparation industry with franchised and company-owned locations across the country, has selected IBM business </description><source>KLFY</source></item><item><title>McKinsey will tell Partner to fire workers to fund dividend, acquisition</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96188224&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T23:02:00</pubDate><description>McKinsey &amp; Company is expected to recommend that Partner Communications dismiss dozens to hundreds of employees as part of a wider restructuring plan. The mobile communications provider, called Orange </description><source>Haaretz</source></item><item><title>Integrated management strategies for red rot disease of sugarcane</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96182585&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T21:16:00</pubDate><description>Subclonal variations play an important role in sugarcane varietal improvement. It is proven that some tissue culture variants are superior than the donor clones in terms of higher biomass, sugar yield </description><source>Bioscience Technology Online</source></item><item><title>Triangle Capital Provides Debt Financing to Physician Management Firm</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96088167&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T20:23:00</pubDate><description>Specialty finance company Triangle Capital said it closed an $8 million debt investment with warrants in a physician management company that provides contracted outsourced anesthesiology services to hospitals </description><source>Monitor Daily</source></item><item><title>What are ??sustainability? and ??social responsibility? corporate jobs? (Part </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96151385&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T11:58:00</pubDate><description>I read your article last week about these new types of corporate jobs that manage a companyâ??s social responsibility or sustainability efforts. What a great development! I would love to get a position </description><source>Workopolis.com</source></item><item><title>What Do Presidential Libraries Say About Their Namesakes' Legacies?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96121061&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T00:46:00</pubDate><description>Part of the point of a presidential library is that it's a monument to a leader's legacy--his style, his enduring affect on the world, even his reading habits...or lack thereof. Speaking of which, Laura </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Drive a Mercedes with Your iPhone and Nine Other Mind-Blowing Stories This Week </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96115934&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T00:06:00</pubDate><description>Mind-blowing phrase of the week: "interferometric modulation," which can be loosely translated as " Oh my God! Qualcomm??s Mirasol e-reader has color video! "  Mercedes Benz unveiled an app that lets </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Social Responsibility Can Boost Investment Returns, New Academic Research Suggests</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96161919&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T15:01:00</pubDate><description>Environmental, social and corporate governance practices can help boost the return on corporate investments in some circumstances, according to an analysis of academic research from consultancy Mercer. </description><source>HR Magazine</source></item><item><title>Improve Feedlot Profitability Through Management Strategies</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96141978&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T05:12:00</pubDate><description>Minnesota Ag News Headlines Minnesota Ag Connection - 11/19/2009 The University of Minnesota Extension Beef Team is proud to announce this year's Minnesota Cattle Feeder Days to be held Dec. 7-10 at five </description><source>USAgNet</source></item><item><title>Revenue Management Practices - Using history to fight against chasing the market </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96137471&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T04:16:00</pubDate><description>Technology has always been a necessary precedent for revenue management. Without it, the science has not been able to advance. Consider this, according to the Holy Bible; hotel revenue management was </description><source>Hospitality Upgrade</source></item><item><title>TV Characters with the Best and Worst Hair</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96023604&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T04:46:00</pubDate><description>I know some of you out there watch TV shows for the interesting plot lines, comedic relief or just to see Playboy bunnies frolic with an 80-year-old man, but for me, it's all about the hair. Call me sad, </description><source>Total Beauty</source></item><item><title>Can iPhone drive a car? There's an app</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95985376&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-19T19:09:00</pubDate><description>Yes, I would like to receive occasional CNN member updates about new features and special offers. CNN will use the information you submit in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy. By clicking on </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Workers Under Threat: Blamefest Stunts Innovation [Ed. Note: Who Wrote This Headline?]</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96113399&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T23:32:00</pubDate><description>If the chart above is giving you flashbacks to your last roundtable, chances are you've been blamed for something before. Was it your fault? Doesn't matter. Others in the room are likely to start feeling </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Friday Fun: Eight Ways to Kill an Idea</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96113346&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T23:32:00</pubDate><description>By Scott Campbell [Via Flirting with the Clouds]</description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Ad With Dying, Computer-Animated Polar Bears Stirs Controversy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96109659&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T22:55:00</pubDate><description>How far is too far, in the effort to teach the public about global warming? A U.K. group called Plane Stupid is drawing fire for a new ad they're airing, which depictes polar bears chucked from planes </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Can Chegg Beat the Kindle at the Textbook Game?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96109646&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T22:55:00</pubDate><description>The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for classroom assignments </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Can Protein Sciences Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine in Time? Update: Likely No</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96101591&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T22:54:00</pubDate><description>UPDATE: A FDA advisory panel has ruled that Protein Sciences' insect cell-based flu vaccine requires more safety tests before being made commercially available in the U.S. The panel said the vaccine appeared </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Meetings Management Hot Topic at CPO Summit</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96108140&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T21:13:00</pubDate><description>This week I attended Aberdeen's annual Chief Procurement Officer Summit in Boston and the weather was perfect, though I spent my whole two days there indoors at the new Seaport Hotel and Conference Center. </description><source>Purchasing.com</source></item><item><title>SocialCycling Turns Unrecyclable Products into Usable Items</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96104952&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T20:38:00</pubDate><description>We write a lot about upcycling, or the practice of reusing products for new purposes to prevent waste. Now DMD Green, an environmental management consulting company, wants to make the process even easier </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilight's Edward Cullen, Buy It for $3.3M!</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96104928&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T20:38:00</pubDate><description>Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pattinson) </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Intel's Mind-Reading Chips: Replace Your Mouse With Your Brain</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96102438&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T20:38:00</pubDate><description>You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control </description><source>Fast Company</source></item><item><title>Applications invited for social responsibility awards</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96100756&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T19:57:00</pubDate><description>ARIYALUR: The district administration has invited applications from industrial, service and business organisations for Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2009-10. The awards instituted by the State </description><source>The Hindu</source></item><item><title>Watch Out Apple, Amazon: Qualcomm's E-Reader Will Play Color Video</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96090832&amp;Channel_ID=1&amp;Category_ID=7</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T16:41:00</pubDate><description>E-readers may or may not emerge as the must-have gadget of 2010, but nearly all the devices out now have a problem--their screens only do gray scale, and move too slowly for video. But Qualcomm's got </description><source>Fast Company</source></item></channel></rss>