Casium \ka-zē-əm\
Noun
Company that provides content on management topics to business schools, publications and corporations. Focuses on salient facts and potential management lessons, as in business school cases. Emphasizes clarity through tight writing and concise charting.
A bias for biofuel
In the race to renewable fuels, biofuels are making headway. Professor Gary Pisano (Harvard) looks at a startup, Amyris Biotechnologies, that applies synthetic biology techniques and will soon start producing commercial quantities of biodiesel in Brazil.
Virtual anti-enclosure
Open source software took off in the 80s. Wikis, or easily edited collaborative websites, followed at the turn of the century. Professor Shane Greenstein (Kellogg) looks at Wikia, the largest for-profit provider of hosted open-source wikis.
