Friday, November 30, 2012

Marketplace on data mining and targeted marketing

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Two stat relevant segments on today's show , one on Obama email marketing and another on mining online data. Good stuff.
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Tsunamis and Scientologists

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Since this last post seems to have gotten some interest, here are some more thoughts (or at least some previous thoughts spelled out in gre...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Horribly pretentious person seeks out horribly pretentious people so she can be horrified at their pretentions

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There's a certain type of humorous writing (and you have no idea how badly I wanted to use quotation marks there) where an out-of-towner...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Walmart and Unions

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Matt Yglesias points out that Megan McArdle is actually making a pretty solid pro-Union arguement for Walmart ( while trying to argue the o...

Profile of a businessman I admire

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I was working on a longer post about what a well run business looks like and I remembered the following Malcolm Gladwell piece for the New ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Hostess and salaries

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Mark pointed out that, in my Hostess and wages post, I only put in the previous wage cuts and not the new one that management was proposing...

For those of you who are still working their way through the leftovers

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Thanksgiving, 1905 from the incomparable Windsor McCay from Mippyville . update: the hash was very good, thanks for asking
Saturday, November 24, 2012

The real reason for almost all big business failures

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The commonly voiced view of business, red in tooth and claw, a Darwinian landscape where only the fit survive may hold for small to mid-size...
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"Lance Armstrong And The Business Of Doping"

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This Planet Money story is the first (and will probably be the last) account of the Armstrong scandal that has held my interest. It also ch...

To have one $8 billion dollar writedown, Ms. Whitman, may be regarded as a misfortune. To have two looks like carelessness.

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Ryan McCarthy in Counterparties : HP has become the place where synergies go to die. In its earnings release today, HP said it has taken a...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Introducing "You Do the Math"

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As Joseph mentioned earlier, I have a new blog up called You Do the Math focusing on ideas for teaching primary and secondary math. There&...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Blog list updated

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The blog roll has had a fall cleaning.  I removed a few blogs that were really interesting but which had not been updated for months or year...

Toys for Tots -- reprinted, slightly revised

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are having a ba...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Bitter Harvest

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Just in time for Thanksgiving. From Marketplace : Michael Hogan, CEO of A.D. Makepeace, a large cranberry grower based in Wareham, says ...

Economics: a new definition?

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Is it fair to quote the definition of economics from the blurb for a book ?  If so, consider this definition in the blurb for Emily Oster...
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