![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the impetus comes from the decision of Marissa Mayer, chief executive at Yahoo, to curtail telecommuting. ![]() Recent media reporting and commentary have engaged related questions, with similar treatment of Bell Labs as a sort of American scientific and technological standard, and as what Narayanamurti called 'a source of lessons learned in how to build forward-looking, innovative technology institutions.' He observed that 'Gertner asks the following: In a time of venture capitalists, open innovation, and highly successful information technology companies such as Apple, Google, and Facebook, is there a need for an organization like Bell Labs?' Last year for Physics Today, Venkatesh Narayanamurti-of Harvard University but formerly of Bell Labs- reviewed Jon Gertner's The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. ![]()
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