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Daily Archive for April 17th, 2009

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Harvard professor Robert D. Austin, and Carl Stormer  in this case study examine how successful companies can “jump to the next S-curve” through an analogy to the life’s work of Miles Davis, especially his paradigm-shattering Kind of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already [...]

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Painting with Bacteria

Most people think of bacteria in terms of infections and disinfectants. Erich Schopf, a bacteriologist at the University of Vienna,  thinks of colour, and actually  paints with bacteria! The fact that bacteria use pigments to protect themselves against UV radiation gave him the idea to use them as paint. He gathers his raw material from the ground, [...]

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