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Marc Ventresca
@marcventresca
Org theory loyalist w social innov tendencies, concern for nascent mkts, systembuilding/unbuilding. U Oxford, Wolfson College; former Stanford, Northwestern
Oxford UK & Mountain View CAJoined November 2007
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Ikea’s generative AI furniture designs are trippy, retro, and inspiring
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Cambridge's reputation survived 800+ years of affirmative action for white men. twitter.com/nathancofnas/s…
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What values do you think companies should cultivate to become innovation-driven organisations?
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There’s an Englishman, Scotsman and an Irish man…It’s not the start of a joke, but a historical moment. The head of the UK, Scotland and Ireland’s government are all of South Asian heritage. Sunak, Yousaf and Varadkar. Huge moment!
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Liquid trees are an experiment to work around lack of space in big cities: they contain 600 liter of water and work by using microalgae to bind CO₂ and produce pure oxygen through photosynthesis
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75 years after the partition of India, a Muslim and Hindu with subcontinental origins head govt in Scotland and England, and may well oversee the partition of the UK.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi
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People in Emilia-Romagna will not consider this article as particularly surprising or controversial.
Not really a news that "tradition" is mostly early-mid 1900.
I suspect there is a link between a place's inability to change and the need to construct folkloristic food myths.
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This may be useful for those of you who teach institutional theory, the taken-for-grantedness of institutions, and institutional entrepreneurship. Likely to be good for class discussion (particularly in classes with Italian students 
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This week, I’ll be speaking at in Valencia on all things raising your first funding round and VC.
Say hello 👋🏾 if you’re a founder building for Europe raising your first funding round, also excited to connect with pre seed / seed VCs too!
#thenextweb #tech
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I am proud to say was our first hire at . Now she’s started her own news organization, . Let #localjournalism bloom.
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Founded in 1819 in France, is the oldest business school in the world. And this year, we celebrate 50 years of #ESCP in Germany. #businesschool
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We are excited to announce that we are celebrating #50years of excellence in education across Europe in 2023!
Join us as we take the time this year to reflect on our Pan-European journey and look forward to a bright future ahead.
#50yearsinEurope #ESCP #europeancommunity
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Emerging sciences of the smell of the past, among others 'old book smell', and hints toward Cleopatra's perfumes:
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Check out "Networking and Information Exchange for UKRI Cross-Council Call - Event 2" eventbrite.co.uk/e/networking-a
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Food (literally) for thought: Every #tradition we have now was a successful #innovation once. Great piece in the on innovation in the context of traditional Italian cuisine. on.ft.com/3LQeC3u
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Saw this posted yesterday from and thought it was incredible. Nice timing seeing your post today.
*(A letter from Akira Kurosawa written to Ingmar Bergman.)
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Do you know what happens to actors once they hit 70? It's hilarious, you'll never believe it!
Writers, let's #RethinkAging this #AmWriting Wednesday and write older folks into your scripts – y'all owe @MarlaGibbs4Real her Emmy! And why not a few more for @TheNormanLear…
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“Where a host meets his guests reveals the context in which he wants to be regarded,” Nathan Gardels writes. “This was in splendid evidence at the Moscow summit this week.”
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Zizek served a very important purpose for me: he was the exit sign hanging over a certain way of theorizing. I walked directly out the door.
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Incapable of appreciating irony and operating through auto complete instead of genuine idea formation, Sl@voj Z!zek gets sanctimonius about chat bots....
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Depreciation and amortization are like the Mounds and Almond Joy of the income statement.
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I got my summary statement for my book this week. As of right now, Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork has sold about 2300 books.
I. Am. FLABBERGASTED!
I remember all the rejections. I remember the sadness, the feelings of dejection.
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"And if there’s controversial topics or subjects, we tell parents in advance. We’re going to be sensitive to everybody at the school."
"We don’t have safe spaces for kids so they won’t be offended by a Halloween costume."
"We don’t use pronouns."
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Thought experiment: If we sequenced every butterfly species on earth, would we have enough data for a generative ML model for butterfly genomes?
What if we sampled 100 individual genomes from every species? What if we sequenced all the other insects too? What would it take?
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This is an unusual step as only a handful of school districts are considering #reparations. Berkeley school district explores giving cash payments to students with enslaved ancestors
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The high school English teacher who changed my life and led me down the road of thinking had a mantra, which was a saying - probably falsely - attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt,
"If want to know what people think of you, just know that they mostly don't."
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This is the best (and worst) thing you will read today.
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The best thing we can do to build the future… is give more people access & opportunities to build the future.
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I’m only ever more certain that Gender Studies is a crucial discipline. Political economy, political theory, religious studies, media, sociology, anthropology…all passes through the question of social reproduction.
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This is what happens when you bring together two of the worst thinkers on new technologies. Among other shared tendencies, both bloviate free of empirical inquiry.
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Criti-hype Festival: Yuval Harari+Tristan Harris
"time to upgrade our 19th-century institutions for a post-A.I. world, and to learn to master A.I. before it masters us"
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It’s time to nuke the microwave oven fastcompany.com/90867609/its-t . A lyrical rant against all that a microwave represents...
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With its stock down 96% since its IPO, can Allbirds find its footing? fastcompany.com/90869256/allbi - maybe even a better teaching with this?
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If you think the most revolutionary forms of innovation have been happening in the past decade, you know nothing about the history of technology.
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19th century Midwestern meatpackers were responsible for more technical innovation within like a 5 year period than 90% of Silicon Valley has been for the past two decades
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know,” an unnamed character casually remarks in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Garden of Eden.
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Really enjoyable SMT #TeamBuilding #Mindfulness and #Shawarma #Flatbread making afternoon with colleagues and #ThankYou
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A heartfelt thank you to my brilliant and colleagues , , and for their collaborative effort in creating this successful programme! [2/2]
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This morning, we completed the third iteration of "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Business Innovation," the most sought-after specialisation for three consecutive years in 's Master in Management on the Berlin campus. #ESCPBerlin [1/2]
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More evidence that bad is stronger than good! Which sucks at times.
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We analyzed 22,743 experiments from @Upworthy and you won't believe what happened next!
We found that negative news headlines drove online engagement. Each additional negative word in a headline increased clicks by 2.3%.
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