Apr 27
Businessweek has released its current list of the top undergraduate business programs in the US. The top three placeholders held strong from their 2012 ranking: University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management The fourth and fifth place …
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Apr 10
Wired Business reports that analysts at Morningstar and Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) believe that Amazon could dramatically increase profits by selling its Prime membership for much less than the current price of $79. The Amazon Prime membership, which provides a full year of free two-day shipping, is associated with much larger consumer spending. According …
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Mar 10
A recent article from the Wall Street Journal identifies a paradox: (i) “conservative lore” predicted rich people would leave California in response to a massive tax increase, yet, in fact, (ii) poor and middle class people have left instead. As evidence, the article summarizes the following about those who have left the state: 1. Their …
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Mar 04
Over the years, Federal funding for the social sciences has come under fire from critics of all sorts, including the House of Representatives, which passed an amendment in 2012 to completely cut the National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for political science in particular. The argument in favor of these cuts usually sounds something like what …
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Mar 01
The article “Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates” recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrates that even published research may contain errors. The author, Franz H. Messerli, examines the correlation between countries’ chocolate consumption per capita and Nobel laureates per 10 million people. The linear relationship is strong, as shown …
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Feb 27
About two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI vacates the papacy on February 28, the College of Cardinals will elect a new Roman Pontiff. These Cardinal Electors (117 in all) will come from around the world to meet in a Conclave famous for its white smoke/black smoke method of communicating election results to the outside world. …
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Feb 01
The real estate market has taken a beating in the past few years. During the most recent downturn in the economy, real estate values plummeted causing homeowners equity to vanish with many homeowners facing short-payoffs and even foreclosure. Despite the more positive recent news regarding real estate, potential buyers are facing increased scrutiny from banks …
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Jun 18
Last week, the media quickly dispersed the jaw dropping statistic just released by the Federal Reserve in its Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF): household median net worth fell by almost 40% from 2007 to 2010, the mean fell almost 15%. According to SCF, the median inflation adjusted net family worth (i.e., the value of its home(s), bank account(s) and retirement …
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May 31
There are a plethora of business climate indexes available; however, a recent small business survey conducted by Thumstack.com and the Kauffman Foundation appears to be one of the few (or maybe the only) that actually use small businesses as the source of its results. Thumstack.com and the Kauffman Foundation surveyed small business owners to understand …
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Apr 12
Renaming Hurricanes Probably Wouldn’t Have Increased Donations by $700 Million
April 12, 2013
Adam Alter, Professor of Marketing and Psychology at NYU, thinks that he’s found a way to increase aid donations in the aftermath of hurricanes. His solution: give hurricanes names with very common initials (e.g. “J” or “M”) because people allegedly donate more when Hurricanes share their first initial. To support his suggestion, Alter cites a …
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