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Business Commentary Education Health

Mis-using Charts to Sell Retirement Planning–Is Prudential Unethical?

May 14, 2013May 14, 20132 min read

Perhaps you have seen the Prudential advertisement that shows people placing dots on a chart showing the oldest person they know.  Prudential uses this, in

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Business

Your First Hour…

September 5, 20121 min read

FastCompany recently published a very good article with recommendations on what to do (and not do) with your first hour at work. I especially like

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Business Commentary Life Social Networking Technology

Olympic Absurdity Runs Rampant with @London2012! Perhaps worse than @USOlympic!

June 21, 2012July 14, 20123 min read

Can there be an event that is more social than the Olympics?  One would think that if any organization would encourage the concepts of sharing,

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London 2012, Olympics, social networks, Team USA, twitter, US Olympics
Business Education Logistics Supply Chain

Support our Effort to Change Supply Chain Education

June 18, 2012June 21, 20122 min read

Thanks to a program sponsored by Chase and LivingSocial called Mission: Small Businessâ„ , your support could translate into a $250,000 grant. But we need at

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Business Commentary Economics Education

The “Cost” of college, and why Tuition should be replaced by Sponsorship

June 5, 20123 min read

Once again, Dean Dad poses an interesting question.  He asks what one year of college should cost. Asking what a year of college “should” cost

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College, Community College Dean, Education, scholarship, tuition
Business Commentary Economics Education Life

US Sues Apple, Publishers

April 13, 20121 min read

We talk about the lawsuit brought by the US in the most recent Real Tech for Real People, Episode 110.  While we share our thoughts

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Amazon, apple, eBooks, Kindle, lawsuits, pricing, Publishers
automotive Business Commentary energy

Nissan’s Commercial–Not the Message the Intended

April 4, 2012April 4, 20121 min read

Hopefully you have all seen this commercial by now.  I want you to watch it closely, and really think about what you first think (or

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automotive Business Economics Education energy transportation

Environmentally aware, or simply a “show off?”

April 4, 20123 min read

Back in 2007 I bought a Civic Hybrid.  At the time I “ran the numbers” and decided that the purchase made both economic and environmental

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Business Commentary Logistics Supply Chain Technology

Digital Textbooks the Apple Way–the “right” way?

January 24, 20122 min read

I have many thoughts on digital textbooks, and you have all had an opportunity to read them here.   Apple has made their “big move”

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Business

Audio Books–do you listen? or “Can you hear me now?”

January 24, 20122 min read

A recent annoucement caught my eye.  Mashable ran a story highlighting a new company, audiobooks.com, that will be following the “subscription” model that music has

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audiobooks, podcasts, survey

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