Sundararajan (associate professor of Information, Operations and Management Services at the NYU Stern School of Business) and two colleagues surveyed 23 CIOs and high-level IT managers at U.S. and Canadian companies that use or have evaluated use of cloud services.

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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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This past fall, the new director of career services at University of California, Los Angeles's Anderson School of Management began attending admissions events.

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