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The Titanic: a project management disaster
The Titanic (public domain image, taken from Wikimedia, by F. Stuart). Few days ago, I attended a conference on an example of a project management disaster: the Titanic, the British ship which sank in...
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Getting married seen as a call option (finance)
I am currently following in Coursera the course on “Financial Markets” given by professor Robert Shiller. When the course finishes I may write about the experience and main takeaways from the course....
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Bill and Melinda Gates 2014 Stanford commencement speech
Steve Jobs’ Stanford’s 2005 commencement speech in which he talked how he pursued different things that interested him at a young age and later on these things enabled him achieve successful endeavours...
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The Age of Sustainable Development
A few months ago I took a massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera platform titled “The Age of Sustainable Development” of which I wanted to talk in the blog. The course is taught by Jeffrey...
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Memories of my days in a wind tunnel
Some weeks ago my brother Jaime wrote a couple of posts in his blog about wind tunnels. A first general post in which he described how they work and mentioned some techniques including PIV, and a...
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Earned Value Management and cash preservation
A few weeks ago I attended a 2-day training course titled “Finance for non financiers”. I found it too basic. However, I wanted to comment on one exercise we were proposed almost at the end of the...
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30 years of AEGEE
AEGEE stands for Association des États Généraux des Étudiants de l’Europe and it is the largest trans-national, interdisciplinary student organisation in Europe. You can find here the Wikipedia article...
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Compétences linguistiques langue anglaise (FCL.055)
La semaine dernière j’ai passé le contrôle de compétences linguistiques langue anglaise (FCL.055) VFR (1). Je m’avais mis cet objectif au début de l’année et au moment de démarrer avec la préparation...
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Leadership perspectives from a TOPGUN pilot
A few days ago, I attended a conference by an executive from Airbus recently founded subsidiary A³. The talk was on Leadership Perspectives, from his experience in government (as a White House military...
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Why do bad things happen to good companies?
Last week, I attended a Finance conference were one of the speakers (a coach and keynote speaker by the name Martin Carper) delivered a talk titled “Why do bad things happen to good companies?” (1)....
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