Most American schools focus on academic curriculum and preparing students for a collegiate career, so much so that upper-tier schools are often colloquially called prep schools. And it’s not a bad goal. But should it be the only goal? While excelling in academia is important – American standardized test scores are, after all, falling to
Read More...I do a lot of thinking about Amazon, because I feel it’s on the verge of massively disrupting Google and, on a much, much larger scale, retail as a whole. Today, let’s talk about retail. Here I mean retail across the board, save specialty stores (Apple, Bose, etc.) and emergency sundry retailers (pharmacies, some grocery
Read More...Henry Blodget for Business Insider: Facebook’s stock has dropped by half since the IPO three months ago. And the stock price is now well below the level at which most employees have been granted stock in the past 18 months. This means that most current and former Facebook employees are worth far less than they
Read More...Jim Dalrymple over at The Loop posted what I’ve been thinking since Apple’s decisive victory over Samsung last week: Because it was so blatant in its copying, Samsung was the most obvious target and allowed Apple to set precedent for its patents. That was the precursor to going thermonuclear. Google says its not worried about
Read More...It’s been a while since I’ve done a good old-fashioned link post, so here we go. I have a huge backlog of stuff I’ve found while looking around the Internet, and I always think knowing this stuff will make me more interesting at parties. It doesn’t, but I think your luck will be better. Joe
Read More...I’m not posting this because I think it’s amusing. I’m posting it because I think it’s powerful and because we don’t see enough of this anymore. The backstory: As a high school lacrosse team was waiting to board a flight to a Summer tournament, one athlete took it upon himself to sneak into the pre-board
Read More...Let’s talk about wallets, because it’s Friday I have a touch of OCD and am constantly looking for ways to reduce my wallet to the bare essentials. Sound crazy? Yeah, let’s refer back to that OCD thing. Anyway, I’ve spent the last few years trying wallets of all varieties, and I think I’ve settled on
Read More...Our own Shannon Roche and Jim Henderson, writing for Health Management Technology about what it means to implement and optimize an enterprise asset management (EAM) system: The value of a successful maintenance-management program supported by an integrated software solution is profound. This combination can be the foundation for healthcare organizations to achieve full visibility to the
Read More...Lisa Jansen, writing for CNBC.com: Companies with at least one woman on the board over the past six years show better average growth, with an average of 14 percent over the past six years compared to 10 percent for those with no female board representation. They also have a 4 percent higher return on equity,
Read More...Dalton Caldwell: Mark, I don’t believe that the humans working at Facebook or Twitter want to do the wrong thing. The problem is, employees at Facebook and Twitter are watching your stock price fall, and that is causing them to freak out. Your company, and Twitter, have demonstrably proven that they are willing to screw with
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