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Each week, the Boston Globe and DC Denison bring you the lastest news and events happening in the Hub in the business-technology podcasts.
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Podcast Special: Business cards - March 2, 2006In this week's podcast, etiquette expert Peter Post, great-grandson of Emily Post, talks about what information is appropriate to print on business cards.
Podcast Special: Pregnancy in the workplace - Feb. 22, 2006In this week's podcast, etiquette expert Peter Post, great-grandson of Emily Post, talks about pregnancy in the workplace.
Podcast Special: To tip or not to tip? - Feb. 15, 2006Ordering the perfect wine complement for a dish requires a certain know-how. So does tipping on a bottle of wine. Peter Post discusses proper wine etiquette.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - Feb. 8, 2006Globe reporters Ralph Ranalli and Chris Reidy discuss how the first months of any new year are boom times for the fitness industry.
Podcast Special: Peter Post talks about job hunting while on the job - Feb. 8, 2006Peter Posts offers advice on the proper way to hunt for a new job.
Podcast Special: Peter Post on food in the workplace - Feb. 1, 2006Can you cut in line for the office microwave? Peter Post answers this and other workplace food etiquette questions in this week's podcast.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - January 26, 2006Red Sox chief operating officer Mike Dee is the man behind many of the team's big business ideas, including concerts at Fenway Park.
Podcast Special: Peter Post on handling medical issues in the workplace - Jan. 4, 2006Peter Post gives advice on how to bring up medical issues to your employer and co-workers.
Podcast Special: Peter Post on "coming out" in the workplace - Dec. 28, 2005Peter Post gives advice on how to people should approach their sexual orientation in the workplace.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Dec. 14, 2005In the third part of his six-part series, Peter Post, the great-grandson of Emily Post, talks about charitable donations during the holiday, and how to politely decline solicitations in the workplace.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - December 7, 2005Globe reporters Ralph Ranalli and Peter Howe discuss why energy deregulation is working out for big business at the expense of small businesses. Also, Emily Shartin talks to Sandy Block, sommelier at Legal Sea Foods, about shopping for wine.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Dec. 5, 2005In part two of his six-part series, Peter Post, the great-grandson of Emily Post, talks about proper behavior at the company holiday party and how to avoid embarrassing situations with co-workers.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Nov. 28, 2005Peter Post, the great-grandson of Emily Post, kicks off a six-part series on proper etiquette in the office with a discussion on giving cards and gifts to co-workers.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - November 22, 2005Shopping edition: Globe correspondent Melanie Nayer discusses the upcoming Christmas shopping season and Globe reporter Keith Reed explains how the HD television market is changing.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - November 16, 2005A conversation with Globe reporter Robert Weisman about what venture capitalists are looking for these days and how companies are strategizing to get their attention.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - October 26, 2005In this week's BizCast: Globe reporter Robert Weisman describes Raytheon's new business strategy, and dips into Raytheon chief executive William Swanson's little gray book of corporate wisdom. Also an unedited recording of Ross Kerber interviewing Olivia Ho Cheng, chief executive of Aurora Imaging Technology, a designer and manufacturer of magnetic-resonance imaging systems to check for breast cancer and related conditions.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - October 19, 2005In this week's BizCast DC Denison is on location at Art Interactive in Central Square, Cambridge where he discusses place, location and "psychogeography" with artists and curators. Also Globe reporter Sasha Talcott talks about a Massachusetts-based research firm that specializes in football stats, Scouts, Inc., and tells us what's behind the recent destruction of the 406 Club at Fenway Park.
Podcast Special: Boston Globe Bizcast - October 12, 2005Globe reporter Andrew Caffrey reports on the latest developments in location and tracking technologies, and Robert Weisman explains "the Google Effect." Also nanotechnology gets ready for its close-up at Boston's Museum of Science.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - October 5, 2005A special real estate edition with Globe reporter Kimberly Blanton. Topics include the bubble in luxury housing, why condos values are holding, the impact of baby boomers, how New England compares to other regions, and new neighborhoods where home values are just breaking the $1 million dollar barrier. Also Jenn Abelson on the invasion of Mexican food chains.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Sept. 28, 2005This week's BizCast is a special "South Station edition" featuring interviews with some of the small businesses that operate out of Boston's transportation hub, from the bookstore to the barroom. Also a conversation with a geocacher who has stashed a cache just a few blocks from South Station. It's all in celebration of the launch of the South Station "Pulse Point", sponsored by The Boston Globe in partnership with Boston.com.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Sept. 21, 2005n this week's business podcast learn about the evolution of the new "integrated textbook" that incorporates electronic media like DVDs, CDs and websites. Globe reporter Chris Reidy explains how Houghton Mifflin is updating a very old educational institution. Also Jeffrey Krasner on two very different kinds of ink: the real, old-fashioned kind that is inspiring a basement innovator, and the virtual kind, E Ink, currently under development at an MIT spin-off in Cambridge.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Sept. 14, 2005This business podcast talks about the business of food. From Legal Sea Foods new endeavors to Todd English's favorite olive oil, the restaurant industry continues to bustle as one of the biggest business money-makers. And, Globe reporter Ross Kerber talks about M/A-Com, a Massachusetts company setting up emergency radios in New Orleans.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Sept. 7, 2005This week's business-technology podcast is a Steven Syre special, featuring the Boston Globe's "Boston Capital" columnist. Among the topics: trouble at Tweeter, the "single most successful company, pound for pound, in the homeland security sector", auction IPOs, socially responsible investing, and Fidelity in the doldrums.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Aug. 31, 2005This podcast is a special "Business Etiquette" edition, featuring the Globe's Doreen Vigue and columnist Peter Post. Among the topics: Five things to know if you're looking for a job, how to handle office refrigerator politics, and what to say to the gum snapper in the next cubicle.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Aug. 24, 2005Boston Globe technology editor DC Denison's weekly business-technology podcast. This week's featured segments include Globe reporter Robert Weisman's interview with the dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, Richard Schmalensee. Also Ross Kerber provides the backstory for Sepracor's ubiquitous advertising campaign for its new sleep drug, Lunesta.
Interview with Howard Anderson - Aug. 22, 2005A podcast with Howard Anderson, who teaches several courses at MIT's Sloan School of Management on "Managing in Adversity" and "New Enterprises." In 1970, he started one of the first technology analyst firms, the Yankee Group, and later helped launch Battery Ventures, the venture capital firm that backed Akamai Technologies and Nextel, among others. In this podcast, he talks about today's important new directions in technology, why big companies can't innovate, and why there may be too many venture capitalists.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Aug. 17, 2005Boston Globe technology editor DC Denison's weekly business-technology podcast. This week's featured segments include columnist Charles Stein on why the rising price of oil hasn't affected the U.S. economy...yet; and why your 401K plan seems so stagnant. Also reporter Keith Reed with a luxury doubleheader: the rise of high end rental cars and a resurgence of first class airline service. Finally business etiquette columnist Peter Post, the grandson of Emily Post, on how to dress for work, including how to handle your mohawk haircut and multiple piercings, if you are so adorned.
Interview with Bob Metcalfe - Aug. 15, 2005Scott Kirsner chats with Bob Metcalfe, who is a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners who believes that new technologies don't succeed simply because they're cool; they succeed because they're sold doggedly. While at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Metcalfe helped link the world's computers together by inventing the Ethernet networking protocol. After leaving Xerox PARC, he founded 3Com, and later went on to a career in technology publishing at International Data Group. In March 2005, Metcalfe received the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush.
Podcast Series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Aug. 10, 2005This week's featured segments include Sasha Talcott on how a combined Reebok and Adidas plan to take on Nike, and Chris Reidy on Boston's own contrarian sneaker company, New Balance. Also Robert Weisman with a private equity weather report, and Peter Post, the grandson of Emily Post, on the etiquette of the "business kiss."
Interview with Kenan Sahin - Aug. 8, 2005Podcast interview of Kenan Sahin, who is the chief executive of TIAX, a Cambridge R&D firm consisting of more than 200 engineers and scientists. TIAX was born out of the ashes of Arthur D. Little's Technology and Innovation business. In 1982, Sahin founded an earlier company, Kenan Systems, with just $1000, eventually selling it for $1.5 billion. In this podcast, Sahin talks about the challenges of managing and motivating people in innovative organizations.
Podcast series: Boston Globe Bizcast - Aug. 3, 2005Boston Globe technology editor DC Denison's features Peter Howe on cellphone tours, Jenn Abelson on Cinema de Lux and a series on workplace etiquette with Peter Post, the grandson of Emily Post.
An interview with Dan Bricklin - Aug. 2, 2005Hear Scott Kirsner's interview with Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the first electronic spreadsheet program, VisiCalc. VisiCalc is often referred to as the original "killer app" that catapulted PCs out of hobbyist's garages and into the workplace. More recently, Bricklin developed software to make Web publishing easier, and dove headfirst into blogging (www.bricklin.com/log). In this podcast, he talks about where good ideas come from, the importance of testing new products on "virgins," and what made Bill Gates so successful.
An interview with Jeremy Allaire - July 27, 2005Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner interviews Jeremy Allaire, who created some of the first industrial-strength tools for building and managing Web sites at Allaire Corporation. He founded the company in 1995 with his brother, J.J., helped take it public, and eventually sold it to Macromedia.
