Andrew Hargadon

For us old school manufacturing junkies

Few of my students ever have, or ever will, walk a manufacturing line.  Without that experience, it's hard to understand how much innovation goes into building even simple products that lies beyond the surface "design."  

in•venn•tion of the day... on leading innovation

What are we teaching when we teach business?

A very interesting article came out in the NYT about the general (and relatively accepted) lack of practical preparation of those graduating from law schools.  It begs the question: what are we teaching when we teach business? 

Facebook friends...

As the NYT reported, scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan (report posted here) have found that the average number of links connecting one arbitrarily selected person to another was 4.74 (in the U.S., it was just 4.37).  So what's news? 

in•venn•tion of the day... on leadership

in•venn•tion of the day... on social networking

in•venn•tion of the day... on stealth mode

If we can put a man on the moon, how come we can't...

Oops.  

I guess someone finally did invent a disposable french press.  Discovered at Grahamwich, on State Street in Chicago.  What's next, clean energy? Affordable health care? Wrinkle-free dockers?

in•venn•tion of the day... on getting things done

Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit

Celebrating the launch of Ruhstaller, a new brewery named after Sacramento’s first premier brewer (Captain Frank Ruhstaller, 1881) by one of our former students, J-E Paino (proprietor), along with Peter Hoey (brew-master).