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Students who complete the Managing Technology and Innovation Concentration are eligible to have the Concentration noted on their transcripts (please see the Bulletin for the list of requirements). Take advantage of this focused set of courses to deepen your overall understanding of: the innovation context, organizing for innovation (both large firm issues and start-ups), the process of innovation (team and project management), and systems design.
These courses will better prepare you to engage with the Santa Clara University technology and innovation community. Relevant University organizations include: the Leavey School of Business’ Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; the SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society; SCU's Tech Law Forum; and especially, the student-run Entrepreneurs’ Connection.
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Managing Technology and Innovation Today I am the MTI Concentration Advisor and host this blog to keep SCU Technology and Innovation students connected with current events related to the Concentration, and to events of general interest to our community. I also host a personal blog focused on technology and organizations. Welcome.
Prof. Terri Griffith, Management Department
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Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 5:04 PM
Student prices - great location:
From PARC description:
"The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology, and people. VLAB provides a forum for San Francisco and Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors, and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst dynamic market risks and challenges.
Since "networking can be a drag", VLAB is hosting an informal, thought-provoking, fun holiday networking event at the festive Neiman Marcus, which will be closing early so VLAB can showcase R&D technology in a private environment. register here"
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Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 10:49 AM
The SCU Executive Developement Center has created a LInkedIn Group to run in parallel with its Facebook page.
These are both great ways to build your Santa Clara network. They are also great ways to keep in touch with the latest in executive develpment. Share courses with your team and management, interact with executives from other companies. Build on your solid SCU foundations.
Join and be active today.
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Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 10:46 AM
Cut and pasted from their LinkedIn post:
Tesla Motors is looking for an intern in the Logistics Department. The intern position is for 3 months starting immediately (preferably, if not a start date of early January). This individual is very entrepreneurial in spirit, really smart and ready to get to work, and who is very interested in working at Tesla. They will need to have an interest in purchasing, finance, shipping, and lots of data analysis.
Currently, there is no a formal job description, but any Master or MBA students who are very interested in Tesla would be great.
Please contact Gigi with your cover letter and resume.
Gigi Masarie | University Programs Coordinator
gmasarie@teslamotors.com
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Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 9:30 AM
I received this from Dan Aguiar about the VCIC competition: "We are seeking two start-up companies that are seeking venture funding to participate. It is a fun competition for the MBA students and an opportunity for the participating start-ups to meet several Venture Capitalists who serve as the judges for the competition. The internal competition is on November 12th."
Contact him at daguiar@scu.edu
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Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 7:36 AM
Some free student tickets still available!
From the President's Speaker Series site:
Since 2005, Paul Otellini has been president and CEO of Intel Corporation.
Since joining Intel in 1974, Otellini has managed several Intel businesses, including the PC and server division and global sales and marketing. He has been a member of Intel's board of directors since 2002.
Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Otellini serves on the board of directors of Google Inc. He also serves on the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
For more info: http://www.scu.edu/visitors/speakerseries/2012/index.cfm
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Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 6:52 PM
The most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software to manage the IT systems that enable their Internet businesses, global supply chains, customer support operations and back office functions. We're a leading provider of enterprise management solutions and we're looking for great students who want to intern in an innovative, fast-paced, high-energy environment.
Our Information Services & Technology (IS&T) organization is currently seeking innovative and solution driven [OMIS, MSIS Computer Science, Business, and MTI Concentration] (Bachelors and Masters) for multiple 2012 summer internships. Get exposure and real experience through one of BMC's internship roles! These roles are available in the challenging and opportunistic areas of:
- Cloud
- Mobile Application Development
- Security
- Collaboration
- Business Intelligence
In BMC's internship program, you will be given valuable and meaningful projects that will provide you with real world, hands-on experience and will allow you to develop and grow in your area of interest. Don't worry, you won't be on your own! BMC will partner you with a Manager that will give you exposure to the business. We will also partner you with a Buddy that is an expert in their area and who will guide you in your projects. Throughout the program, you will also be invited to information sessions with BMC’s CIO and also leaders from Enterprise Architecture, Finance, Marketing, Product Management and Product Development so you will have a full understanding of BMC and learn more about the industry that we operate in.
Visit www.bmc.com for more information about BMC or contact Amy Curiel, amy_curiel@bmc.com, to learn more about BMC's exciting internship program.
[They have offices in San Jose as well as their main offices in TX]
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Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 10:08 PM
From the website: "This one-day event will build on the momentum of The Center for Science, Technology, and Society's Global Social Benefit Incubator and The Tech Museum's Tech Awards program to bring examples of successful social entrepreneurship to the wider Silicon Valley community. Based around interactive panel discussions, the agenda will focus on providing tangible examples from entrepreneurs who have built their social ventures into self-sustaining organizations that provide real, on the ground impact to those living in systemic poverty. To further enhance the program, the audience will have an opportunity to hear from the 2011 Tech Awards laureates who represent cutting-edge technology benefiting humanity in the areas of Education, Equality, Health, Economic Development, and Environment.
FREE - World renowned speakers
Registration & more information
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Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 3:18 PM
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Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011 5:24 PM
See the following from SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society:
The Willem P. Roelandts and Maria Constantino-Roelandts Grant Program
in Science and Technology for Social Benefit
Request for Proposals
Areas of interest to the CSTS include, but are not limited to, research, development, or application of science and/or technology for social benefit, broadly conceived. Sustainable, clean technologies and mobile health applications are of particular current interest to CSTS. For information about the application process go to www.scu.edu/socialbenefit/education/Roelandts. Or download the faculty RFP directly here. The deadline is Friday, October 14, 2011.
The Roelandts Grant program is also available to Upper division and graduate students. The Center will fund projects in amounts of up to $2,000 each for single investigators and up to $3,000 for teams of investigators. It is anticipated that four to six awards will be made. If you know of students conducting research in these areas, please refer to them to www.scu.edu/socialbenefit/education/Roelandts. Or download the student RFP directly here.
If you have any questions regarding the application criteria, please contact Keith Warner ( KWarner@scu.edu)
Thank you,
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 9:30 AM
They are interested in partnering. More information here.
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Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 8:29 AM
Featured Guest:
Michael Raynor
Innovation: Minimizing failure or maximizing success?
Register here
For too long, our pursuit of successful innovation has often focused on minimizing failure. We think of a successful innovation as a needle-in-a-haystack quest. Because we typically don’t know how to increase the odds of success, we seek to “fail fast,” be “lean,” and “iterate.”
We can do better. In a series of experiments using a portfolio of 48 businesses funded by a high-tech company’s new business arm, Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting LLP shows that Disruption Theory can increase predictive accuracy by up to 50 percent, in his new book The Innovator’s Manifesto. The implication is that it is possible to identify winning ideas at the earliest stages of development and shape them in ways that can increase the likelihood of long-term survival.
Raynor will describe his research, explain how Disruption can enable more accurate prediction, and outline the implications for how we can manage innovation to take advantage of these insights.
Bio
Dr. Michael E. Raynor is a Director with Deloitte Consulting LLP. He works with senior executives in the world's leading corporations across a wide range of industries. He is the author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed books, The Innovator's Solution, co-authored with Clayton M. Christensen, and The Strategy Paradox. His third book, the forthcoming The Innovator's Manifesto, demonstrates that the careful application of the right theory improves overall innovation success rates. Michael lectures widely, delivering over 100 major presentations and workshops around the world each year. He is a columnist for The Conference Board Review, and publishes in leading magazines and scholarly journals. Dr. Raynor holds a DBA in General Management from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Ivey Business School in London, Canada, and a Philosophy degree from Harvard University. He lives in Mississauga, Canada.
Pre-order The Innovator's Manifesto and get it autographed at the event!
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Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 9:44 PM
2011-2012 Speakers
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October 6, 2011
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
Since 2005, Paul Otellini has been president and CEO of Intel Corporation.
Since joining Intel in 1974, Otellini has managed several Intel businesses, including the PC and server division and global sales and marketing. He has been a member of Intel's board of directors since 2002.
Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Otellini serves on the board of directors of Google Inc. He also serves on the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
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January 26, 2012
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, Wozniak developed the Apple II personal computer, featuring innovations such as a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.
On the heels of his success with Apple, Wozniak chose to finish his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. For his contributions to the field of personal computing, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s innovators.
In recent years, Wozniak has focused on education and philanthropy. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet, and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Wozniak also adopted the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of technology equipment.
Wozniak currently serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-IO and released his best-selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in 2006.
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April 5, 2012
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
James McLurkin is an assistant professor at Rice University in the Department of Computer Science where he has taught since 2008. His primary research involves creating the software for large swarms of autonomous robots.
McLurkin was inspired by the behavior of ants and bees in the creation of “SwarmBots,” which perform individual tasks that contribute to the goals of the group. The SwarmBots were originally created during his five-year post as lead research scientist at iRobot.
As a graduate student, in 2003 McLurkin was the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT student prize for invention. He holds a S.B. in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T.
Since completing his undergraduate degree from M.I.T. in 1995, he’s lectured at universities and companies, while also teaching students from elementary to graduate school in an effort to instill a passion for science and engineering in people of all ages.
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Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 3:31 PM
4 August 2011
5:30-7:00pm
From the PARC Forum Website:
description
Every 50 years or so a new body of technology comes along and slowly transforms the economy. Can such a transformation be happening today? And if so... how does it work?
Brian Arthur -- an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, pioneer of complexity theory, and longtime PARC Visiting Researcher – will attempt to answer these and other questions in this PARC Forum talk.
Digital technology runs deeper than merely providing computation, internet commerce, and social media. It is silently creating a second, unseen economy that is deeply interconnected, invisible, self-configuring, and intelligent -- and this, he argues, is changing the ways business and the economy are structured.
presenter(s)
W. Brian Arthur is an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute and Visiting Researcher at PARC.
Arthur pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks/ increasing returns in the economy -- in particular, their role in magnifying small, random economic events -- and this work became the basis of our understanding of the high-tech economy. Arthur is also one of the pioneers of the science of complexity.
His most recent book is The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, in which he argued that technology is self-creating (though it requires human agency to build it up and reproduce it) and evolves much like organisms evolve (though radical novelty in technology cannot be explained by the Darwinian model of variation and selection, and instead arises by combining existing elements).
Arthur was the Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University, and the first director of the Economics Program at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Operations Research and has other degrees in economics, engineering, and mathematics including two honorary doctorates.
Among his many honors, Arthur received the Schumpeter Prize in economics and the Lagrange Prize in complexity science.
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Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 7:52 AM
Hope to see you here:
description
Most startups fail... but many of those failures are preventable. This is just as true for one person in a garage as it is for a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom, since Eric Ries defines a "startup" as any organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
In an age when companies need to innovate more than ever, Ries provides a scientific approach to penetrating the fog of uncertainty to discover a path to a successful, sustainable business.
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, the Lean Startup approach relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, and a number of counter-intuitive practices that:
- shorten product development cycles
- measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics
- learn what customers really want
- enable a company to shift directions with agility -- altering plans inch by inch and minute by minute, rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans.
The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs -- in companies of all sizes -- a way to test their visions continuously, to adapt and adjust the way their companies are built and new products are launched... before it's too late.
presenter(s)
Enterpreneur Eric Ries is the author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned and upcoming book on Lean Startups. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his 3rd startup... and has had plenty of startup failures along the way.
An Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many other publications.
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Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 11:21 AM
Hi folks,
Just making sure I'm reaching all the SCU Technology and Innovation Management interested parties. (I'm also working on the FB feed to be sure these posts get through there as it's a better interaction space).
http://www.facebook.com/ManagingTechnologyAndInnovation
If you have a peer/colleague who's not aware of this page, please do a "share" to give them the good news.
I hope you're summer is going well.
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Thursday, Jul. 7, 2011 10:09 PM
Northern California Business Aviation Association (NCBAA) in conjunction with National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is offering college students the opportunity to explore career options in business aviation through local representatives and a static preview of business aircraft prior to the San Jose Regional Forum.
Guest speaker: NBAA regional representative, HP's Chief Pilot and others.
When: Wednesday July 13th, 3:00pm # 5:30pm
Where: TWC-ACM Aviation Hangar, San Jose Mineta Airport 1162 Aviation Ave
Admission free w / registration / valid student identification Limited seating to 100 students. Register with: vcollom@twcaviation.com Casual business attire
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Tuesday, May. 17, 2011 12:09 PM
Copied from the PARC site:
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
PARC Forum
description
What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Our new research, based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative creative projects, reveals some surprising answers. In this PARC Forum, I will use stories from those diaries to describe our discoveries.
The first is that inner work life – a person’s day-by-day emotions, perceptions, and motivation – has a profound effect on the person’s creative productivity. The second discovery is the Progress Principle: Of all the good things that can boost inner work life, the single most important is simply making progress on meaningful work – even if that progress is a small step forward. Unfortunately, of all the bad things that can dampen inner work life, the single most important is having setbacks in the work – and setbacks are even more powerful than progress. The implication? Sustained creative productivity and employee well-being depend less on elaborate incentive systems or performance-management processes than on techniques for facilitating daily work progress.
presenter(s)
Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, as well as a Director of Research, at Harvard Business School. Originally focusing on individual creativity, Dr. Amabile's research expanded to encompass individual productivity, team creativity, and organizational innovation. This 35-year program of research on how the work environment can influence creativity and motivation yielded: a theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating innovation.
Dr. Amabile is the author of The Progress Principle, Creativity in Context, and Growing Up Creative, as well as over 150 scholarly papers, chapters, case studies, and presentations. She serves on the editorial boards of Creativity Research Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, and Journal of Creative Behavior. She was also the host/instructor of Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, a 26-part instructional series originally produced for broadcast on PBS.
Before joining HBS, Dr. Amabile held several research grants as a professor at Brandeis University, including "Creativity and Motivation," from the National Institute of Mental Health, and "Downsizing Industrial R&D," from the Center for Innovation Management Studies. Dr. Amabile was originally trained and employed as a chemist, but she received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. She was awarded the E. Paul Torrance Award by the Creativity Division of the National Association for Gifted Children in 1998, and the Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award by the Center for Creative Leadership in 2005.
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Sunday, May. 15, 2011 2:30 PM
Summer is almost here and many of you are thinking about summer reads (beyond your summer session assignments). Consider a deeper read than your normal beach novel: A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth.
Prof. Field is a global expert on economic history. His new book can help you put a positive spin on our current economic downturn.
Ask your friends for about their best guess for the most technologically progressive decade of the century. Bet them some money.
Then bring out your copy of A Great Leap Forward and show them the arguments for the years 1929-1941. I won't give away the story, but I can assure you that you will find opportunities to use the ideas in this book.
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Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 3:21 PM
Mary Furlong & Associates and Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business invite all entrepreneurs to participate in its 2011 Silicon Valley Boomer Business Plan Competition.
On June 15, 2011 entrepreneurs passionate about the field of aging will come together to explore and share products and services that will be useful to boomers as they age. Each entrepreneur is asked to submit a business plan, and the strongest plan will be awarded a $10,000 grand prize. In addition, this year we will be adding a second category $1,000 prize to the entrepreneur who has the "Best Mobile device App".
For full rules and details, please see: www.scuboomerventure.com
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Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 2:05 PM
I am the Events Manager Assistant at SDForum, and we are proud to announce our upcoming Analytics conference on March 25, 2011. I want to extend a special offer to your students who are interested and would benefit from attending. I want to share with you that due to the generosity of SAP, a conference sponsor, we have a limited number of scholarships available for students to attend our upcoming conference, Analytics: The Next Wave. This conference will provide an insightful perspective to the Analytics business world and be a vital networking opportunity with conference speakers and attendees being the leaders and innovators in the Analytics industry. We hope that you will share this information with your students and they will join us for the one-day conference that will explore how businesses increase the bottom line through new sources of data and uses, new deployment and data architecture models, and consumer targeting derived from big data intelligence.
We’re hoping that you can help us promote the student scholarships available for our upcoming conference on March 25 at Stanford University.
Here is some information about the event:
Title: SDForum’s Analytics: The Next Wave
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 8:15AM – 5:30PM
Description: How do businesses transform the wow of analytics and big data into the bottom line? The focus has shifted from using analytics for better data access and reporting to using insights collected from analytics to deliver better outcomes to the bottom line and drive high performance. This one-day conference will explore increasing the bottom line through new sources of data and uses, new deployment and data architecture models, and consumer targeting derived from big data intelligence.
Confirmed Panelists Include: Scott Burke, Yahoo!; Anant Jhingran, IBM; Simon Khalaf, Flurry; Ping Li, Accel Partners; Tom Peck, Levi Strauss;Eric Peterson, Web Analytics Demystified; Sanjay Poonen, SAP; Bill Schlough, San Francisco Giants; Ted Shelton, Open-First; Sharon Wienbar,Scale Venture Partners
Location: Stanford University, Tressider Union, Oak Lounge, 459 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Registration: Please contact me, Brenna by phone at 408-414-5960, or by email at marketing@sdforum.org, to register. A valid student ID will be required at registration.
Event Website: www.sdforum.org/analytics2011
Should you have additional questions, please contact me.
Best,
Brenna
SDForum, the emerging technology connection
901 Mariners Island Blvd., Suite 595
San Mateo CA 94404 Tel: 408.414.5965
EMail: marketing@sdforum.org | www.sdforum.org
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