Monthly Archives: March 2009

Thank goodness for the life of Bill Little

March 30, 2009 – 9:31 am

A few weeks ago, one of my best friends and colleagues passed away suddenly.  Bill Little was one of the people who made Carolina and North Carolina what it is today. He took our chemistry department from the middle of the pack to its current high level of scholarship and teaching productivity, he reinvented the [...]

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Mike Porter: What is Strategy?

March 9, 2009 – 9:04 am

On March 6, we were lucky to have Professor Michael Porter from Harvard Business School for a lecture in Gerrard Hall.  We had a great crowd made up of folks from both the minor in entrepreneurship and the business school.  Here are the Powerpoint slides for the talk. Mike is famous for writing about strategy, [...]

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Beautiful Music Together

March 6, 2009 – 3:21 pm

As many folks know, Terri Houston and I have been playing music together for several years.  Our band Equinox plays a mix of blues and jazz that is best characterized as “songs that are good for Terri to sing and us to do solos on.”  We do jazz standards like “My Funny Valentine,” and rock/blues [...]

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