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"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface* -- Editor's Note -- Chapter 1 -- Parents and Childhood -- Chapter 2 -- Dunfermline and America -- Chapter 3 -- Pittsburgh and Work -- Chapter 4 -- Colonel Anderson and Books -- Chapter 5 -- The Telegraph Office -- Chapter 6 -- Railroad Service -- Chapter 7 -- Superintendent of the Pennsylvania -- Chapter 8 -- Civil War Period -- Chapter 9 -- Bridge-Building -- Chapter 10 -- The Iron Works -- Chapter 11 -- New York as Headquarters -- Chapter 12 -- Business Negotiations -- Chapter 13 -- The Age of Steel -- Chapter 14 -- Partners, Books, and Travel -- Chapter 15 -- Coaching Trip and Marriage -- Chapter 16 -- Mills and the Men -- Chapter 17 -- The Homestead Strike -- Chapter 18 -- Problems of Labor -- Chapter 19 -- The "Gospel of Wealth -- Chapter 20 -- Educational and Pension Funds -- Chapter 21 -- The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff -- Chapter 22 -- Mathew Arnold and Others -- Chapter 23 -- British Political Leaders -- Chapter 24 -- Gladstone and Morley -- Chapter 25 -- Herbert Spencer and His Disciple -- Chapter 26 -- Blaine and Harrison -- Chapter 27 -- Washington Diplomacy -- Chapter 28 -- Hay and McKinley -- Chapter 29 -- Meeting the German Emperor -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index -- Blank Page

This presentation summarizes parts of http://hdl.handle.net/1813/52650.2, "Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Improve the U.S. Statistical System?", by Weinberg, Daniel; Abowd, John M.; Belli, Robert F.; Cressie, Noel; Folch, David C.; Holan, Scott H.; Levenstein, Margaret C.; Olson, Kristen M.; Reiter, Jerome P.; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Smyth, Jolene; Soh, Leen-Kiat; Spencer, Bruce; Spielman, Seth E.; Vilhuber, Lars; Wikle, Christopher ; Presentation made by Lars Vilhuber, PI of the NSF-Census Research Network (NCRN) Coordinating Office on behalf of the network at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2018 in a session presenting the award winners from 2017. https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=215028 ; NSF-1129475 to Northwestern University; NSF-1130706 to Carnegie Mellon University; NSF-1131500 to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; NSF-1131848 to Cornell University; NSF-1131897 to Duke University and National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS); NSF-1132008 to University of Colorado-Boulder; NSF-1132015 to University of Nebraska-Lincoln; NSF-1132031 to University of Missouri; and NSF-1507241 for the Coordinating Office (Cornell, Duke, and NISS).

"With Face to Face with Russia, author Vilis Vitols has written an important book especially for the English language world. Why? While there are many books published in English about Russia, the vast majority of them are written from the perspective of Western academics and journalists. There are very few books written by people who live at the frontiers of this newly constituted Russian empire under the leadership of Vladamir Putin and it is about time a book is made available to the English speaking world. Face to Face with Russia is this wake-up book. Vilis Vitols was born in Latvia. In 1944 his family fled as the Russians occupied Latvia and he emigrated to Venezuela in 1948. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Later, Vitols won a Ford Foundation scholarship to study at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Cleveland where he received his Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering. Vilis lives with his family in Riga where he is an renowned philanthropist and a respected public figure."--

This paper gives an overview of the International Management Game – a computer-based business simulation of corporate strategic management that is used as a core for strategic management classes for different audiences. The game was initially developed at the Carnegie-Mellon University to be used as a part of business school curriculum. Because of the growing importance of globalization and international relations in the last years, the emphasis in the simulation was on teaching international strategy implementation and international competition. To make it more realistic, involvement of students from various countries as participants of the simulation was encouraged. The paper gives an overview of a strategic management MBA class organized at the Carnegie-Mellon's Tepper School of Business, a class that is also open to students from other universities worldwide. In recent years, several attempts were made to localize and use the game in other countries. The overview of modification to the simulation itself and the teaching process made by a team from team from Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation in Russia is discussed in details.

"In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas. It evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business. This chronicle offers a new, more complex perspective on Carnegie demonstrating how he and his lieutenants helped to shape America's view of capitalism"--Provided by publisher