B2B pioneers envisaged them, it is now clear that independent exchanges such as DoveBid depend crucially on deep industry knowledge and must add value with services that facilitate transactions, says Hal Varian of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Vivek Patel entered NYU studying information systems at its Stern School of Business.

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"I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, " says Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics.

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Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School(V) Lorena Lomeli, 18, of Fort Worth will major in business information systems at Texas Christian University. (S) Amairani Duran, 17, of Fort Worth will major in biology at Texas Wesleyan University.

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