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As I mentioned in class, as the Senate Hearings continue this week is producing a range of opinions. David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the NewYork Times, sees a typical story of dumb politicians: First, as is traditional in our culture, the elected leaders of the clueless establishment have summoned the leaders of Goldman Sachs [...]
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CONGRATULATIONS MOLLY! This week’s blog council (Derek, Emily, Mike, and Alex) would like to award you with the GOLD for best post of the week for you post on Beards, Risk-taking, and Wall Street. The blog council would also like to honor the following people for excellent posts: Terrific Idea: Jessie for her post on [...]
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Here is some comparative information. The Nets We Weave (my own research and commentary blog). Founded 2005. Hits: 16,000 The Way Things Work: Organizations (OT) Founded 2007. Hits: 105,000 Bloginization (OT): Founded Sp 2009. Hits: 32,000 What do we make of these? Can anyone look into how good the wordpress statistics are?
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Our event is on the edge of chaos sometimes. — Danger Ranger aka Michael Mikel, as quoted in Enabling Creative Chaos by Katherine Chen In class on Thursday, we will have a guest, Dr. Katherine Chen, of City College of New York. She is a relative newcomer to academia, (like yours truly) and has written [...]
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This post is due Friday by 4 p.m. instead of the usual Wednesday. By now, you have a topic. If you do not, you can still switch or even write a new post testing out an idea. I think it is a good idea to start with some aspect of the Great Recession you want [...]
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CONGRATULATIONS, Will! Your post on Financial Innovations in the Banking Industry is this week’s Best of the Blog! The Blog Council for this week (Macey, Jessie, and Jordi) would also like to highlight other notable posts: Derek for Most Passionate: The Great Recession: Making Fools of Economists Emily for Best Use of Resources: The Great Recession [...]
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A former Org Theory student, Evan Unger, sent me this story. Interestingly, the classes aren’t just in film studies or media studies departments; they’re turning up in social science disciplines as well, places where the preferred method of inquiry is the field study or the survey, not the HBO series, even one that is routinely [...]
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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Last night’s blog [...]
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CONGRATULATIONS EJ! The Blog Council for this week (Brooke, Kurt, Molly, Will, and Jordi) have recognized EJ for the best post! The Author of the Best Post of the Week And for some other awards (unfortunately, you do not get your picture displayed this week)… Too Bad You Are On Blog Council: Will and Molly [...]
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Here are the initial questions you all were interested in learning more about. (PS, note that this is the first use of the “What is Going On”category which is different from our blog posts about organization theory. What was the role of derivatives and securitization of risk-related products? (What is a risk-related product? Do you [...]
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After careful deliberation EJ, Kelly, Ross, and I are pleased to announce this week’s best post…. !!!!CONGRATULATIONS BROOKE!!!! and your post The Smartest People in the Room: Is using sex appeal smart or unfair?. We have a few other awards to give out this week: Thorough and original research: Derek for Control and Enron. Great [...]
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CNRJBQ8TQCJV This is to claim our blog on the blog search engine Technorati.com
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Besides following up on your check-list for comment-a-palooza, I want you to rediscover books. I was at a seminar this week about information literacy hosted by our own LIT department. We were talking about information literacy and the idea that students should be competent with technology. Good idea!
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Following on the heels of our in-class workshop, this week i… Comment-a-palooza!! Rather than write a new post, here is what I want you to do. Make the blog more personal a) Fix your nickname if it needs it b) Add a gravatar that you like c) Edit the “Who Are We” page to describe [...]
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As the over-sized, grungy truck cab trundles along, Jill asks Sam: “Have you ever seen a real terrorist?” Sam stammers that no, but it is his first day at information retrieval. We see the effects of terrorism: bombings, mayhem, and the elaborate ministry of information. But Jill is never directly implicated in terrorism. The other [...]
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