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Author Archives: RickE
Opening Up The World’s Data
Learning more about our world is the most important thing the human race can do. The information age has yielded a huge amount of data. This data is related to a multitude of different things and is spread across millions of locations. … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Society
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Trapped Like a Rat
How the hell am I supposed to get out of the place without a car? Bucknell attracts students from all over the U.S. and all over the world. To get here, a lot of these students have to fly. I … Continue reading
Posted in For Fun, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged bucknell, lewisburg, shuttles, transportation, ZipCar
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Telling It Like It is [Directors Cut]
I love technology. It is constantly evolving and improving. I love the companies that create these cutting edge products and I idolize the way they are able to innovate so quickly. This summer I got to be apart of one … Continue reading
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Week 10 Questions
1. Which of the CGAP Principles of Microfinance does Kiva abide by, which do they not? Explain. Is it ok for them to not abide by all of them? 2. In “How to Change the World” Bornstein talks about the importance of … Continue reading
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The Patent Minefield
This is ridiculous:
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World)
Tagged Android, Google, Microsoft, patent, patent licensing, patent reform
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Hitchcock Stands With the Best of Them
I usually hate old movies. I believe that if movies aren’t getting better, then there would be no reason to keep making them. I would rather see a movie made in the last 5 years than any classic that Hollywood would have me believe is a … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Society
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Eve, Hitchcock, North by Northwest, nozick, Roger, sexism, Wal-Mart
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Telling it Like it Is
Google is not as great as some people think. Sure, their third quarter results were incredible, but thats not all that counts at a big software company like Google; code base and code infrastructure are huge. You need to have good code and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World)
Tagged Amazon, code, Google, rant, RIM, Steve Yegge, Yegge
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All the other kids have one! (wah!)
CEOs are showered with too many goodies. Or, so says an article recently published in the Washington Post that talked about how CEO’s pay is heavily based off of “peer benchmarking” or the pay of CEO’s at similar corporations and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Equality, Ethics
Tagged CEO, incentives, peer benchmarking, salary, Washington Post
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“Goldman Sachs Rules The World”
…or so says independent trader Alessio Rastani who appeared on BBC news earlier today and made quite a splash. He made some fairly shocking statements centering around his claim that the Eurozone rescue plan is going to fail and the Eurozone market … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Government, Social Science
Tagged Alessio Rastani, BBC, Euro, Eurozone, finance, Goldman Sachs
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The Facebook Effect… Really?
In the Bucknell Org Theory 09′ blog, Geoff wrote about Facebook in his post The Facebook Effect and I couldn’t disagree more with so much about this post. The crux of his argument is that Facebook and Twitter are “fulfilling fantasies … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Social Science, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Facebook, MMO, Social Media, Twitter, virtual
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Keeping It Simple
In Johnson and Kwak’s “13 Bankers” they talk about breaking up banks that are “too big to fail,” and they also mention that the best way to do this is through a solution that is “economically simple, so it can … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World), Government, Uncategorized
Tagged banks, law, regulation, TBTF
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Taking a step back is hard to do
We like to sit in class and critique how individuals acted in certain business situations. We analyze their decisions using moral lenses (such as act utilitarianism) and wonder how someone could make such a seemingly stupid decision. However, sometimes we … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World), Social Science, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged 9 to 5, analyze, habit
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