https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/tufts/Recent content in tufts on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-05-17-22-courses-later-the-commencement-speech/Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-05-17-22-courses-later-the-commencement-speech/I'll be graduating this weekend, and I am looking forward to hearing a commencement speech given to the Tufts community by Lance Armstrong. I think that will be a real treat. I don't know what kind of advice he'll be giving the class of 2006, but I am sure it will be something special. Advice during a commencement speech comes in all shapes and sizes, but there was one piece of advice I was just reading about from Thomas Siebel's commencement speech that I thought was appropriate to share: First thing, you need to get a job.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-11-14-econ-theory-101/Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-11-14-econ-theory-101/Over the spring, I took Michael Fairbanks’ class in International Entrepreneurism. It’s not entrepreneurship as much as it is business as usual in developing countries; Fairbanks founded the OTF Group, which specialises in strategy consulting for developing nations like Macedonia, Jamaica, Rwanda, etc. One of the last lectures he delivered in the class was a discussion of strategy versus innovation. Which economic strategies exist that support innovation? Which suppress it?