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Lecture 21 - Systems Engineering for Space Shuttle Payloads, Aircraft Systems Engineering Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 This course offers a holistic view of the aircraft as a system, covering: basic systems engineering; cost and weight estimation; basic aircraft pe...

Dealing with Competition Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Williams gives his views on the evolving competitive landscape in podcasting. He believes that in a new, emerging market, it is about 'gr...

You Need a Supportive Family Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Number 5 in Frank Levinson’s Top 10 Things You Must Have to Start a Business. When starting a business, says Levinson, it becomes your life. Havin...

Applications to boundary value problems: Laplace equation Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 This course provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covere...

Being an Entrepreneur in Industry vs. Education: Team vs. Individual Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Ringold talks about the fundamental differences between sole entrepreneurship in the academic setting versus entrepreneurship in an industry settin...

Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Kawasaki thinks that companies like Nordstrom, Audi, and Nike make the world a better place. His advice: don’t start a business because you think ...

Lecture 21 - Repeated Games: Cooperation vs the End Game, Game Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 We discuss repeated games, aiming to unpack the intuition that the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment in the future of a relationship...

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Game Theory, Game Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 We introduce Game Theory by playing a game. We organize the game into players, their strategies, and their goals or payoffs; and we learn that we ...

Lecture 22 - Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing, Game Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 In business or personal relationships, promises and threats of good and bad behavior tomorrow may provide good incentives for good behavior today,...

A Common Mistake: Treating VC money as Your Own Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Roizen thinks that one of the biggest mistakes companies made in their hayday was considering VC money as their own. Entrepreneurs forgot they had ...

Lecture 2 - Putting Yourselves into Other People’s Shoes, Game Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 At the start of the lecture, we introduce the "formal ingredients" of a game: the players, their strategies and their payoffs. Then we return to t...

Promoting Quality Leaders from Within Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 How do you seek out and promote quality leaders from within a company? Leaders are often self-selected from peers, Bartz says. On way to identify ...

Lecture 19 - Design Process as it Relates to the Shuttle, Aircraft Systems Engineering Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 This course offers a holistic view of the aircraft as a system, covering: basic systems engineering; cost and weight estimation; basic aircraft pe...

Timing is Important: The Same Idea Can Have Different Fates Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 Kaplan says that every idea is repeatedly proposed. Timing of an idea is very important and very difficult to call. This involves enabling technolo...

Lecture 4 - Quicksort, Introduction to Algorithms Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 This course teaches techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods useful in practice. Topics covered include...

Lecture 8 - Sparta, Introduction to Ancient Greek History Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Donald Kagan explores the rise, fall, and significance of tyrannies in the Greek polis. He argues that the various tyra...

Lecture 12 - Stellar Mass Black Holes, Introduction to Astrophysics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 One last key concept in Special Relativity is introduced before discussion turns again to black celestial bodies (black holes in particular) that m...

Lecture 15 - Recombinant DNA 2, Introduction to Biology with Research Focus Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 3033 Date: April 18, 2009 The MIT Biology Department core courses all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, mol...

The Dark Years: Vichy France Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 3085 Date: April 18, 2009 For decades after the end of World War II the question of French collaboration with the Nazis was obscured. One of the reasons for this was the des...

Lecture 9 - Sparta (cont.), Introduction to Ancient Greek History Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: April 18, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Donald Kagan explores the development and character of Sparta. He points out that in Sparta, the ethos of the polis was...

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