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With the Fuqua School developing an MBA program in Dubai, I thought it would be interesting to look at the top 10 companies in the area:

1. Emirates – airline, est. sales $7,798,600,000
2. Emaar Properties – real estate, est. sales $4,783,6000,000
3. ETA ASCON Group – diversified, est. sales $4,000,000,00
4. National Bank of Dubai (NBD) – financial services, est. sales $2,860,300,000
5. DP World Ltd – marine terminal development and operations, est. sales 2,731,400,000
6. Jumbo Electronics – electronic and appliance retailer, est. sales $2,000,0000,000
7. Dodsal Group – energy and infrastructure development, est. sales $2,000,000,000
8. Mashreqbank – financial services, est. sales $1,819,500,000
9. Dubai Islamic Bank, financial services, est. sales $1,636,100,000
10. Emirates Bank International – financial services, est. sales $1,560,200,000

If you would like to know more about these companies, contact us at: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

Ford Library has created a presence on Twitter to give you fast, byte-sized access to important Library news.

Twitter is a web site/service that lets you send and receive up to 140 characters worth of quick info or news about what you happen to be doing at any given moment. You can also receive updates or “tweets” via your favorite IM software or over your cell phone.

You can follow us on the Twitter web site (no account necessary), or sign up to receive our updates via IM or cell phone. We’ve also embedded a Twitter widget on our Library Info page to show you our 3 most recent updates when you visit our site.

Please feel free to send any comments or questions about our new Twitter service to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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All Duke University Libraries (including Ford Library) will be releasing a new version of our online library catalog on Wednesday, July 9th.

The new online catalog interface will include many new features and functions:

• improved display of holdings and locations (which library has what book)
• single click search refinement (show results by library, format, and more)
• book cover image displays
• save searches as persistent bookmarks
• save/view searches as dynamically updated RSS feeds
• and more …

We encourage you to try out the new catalog interface before Wednesday to get a feel for how to perform all the searches and operations that you’re familiar with in our current catalog interface.

The “Classic” catalog interface will still be accessible (although not indefinitely!) from within the new catalog.

Please feel free to send any comments or questions about the new catalog to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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Even during summer break Ford Library keeps adding new books to our collection. Come check out our New Book and New Audiobook sections for even more great choices. (Click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.)

Fun Summer Reading:

• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel H. Pink, art by Rob Ten Pas
• Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight Talk at Work by Samuel A Culbert
• Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day – And What You Can Do About It by Bob Sullivan
• The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan
• The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It) by Jonathan Zittrain

Happiness, Health, and Work:

• What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better by Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, and Collins Hemingway
• How: Why ‘HOW’ We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life) by Dov Seidman
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Doubt is their product: how Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels
• Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don’t Act) Responsibly by Howard Gardner
• One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business by Judith M. Bardwick

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