Showing posts with label corporation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporation. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Minnesota explained: Rubio, Sanders and the President Gordon agenda.

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My home state of Minnesota, most annoyingly, uses caucuses . I attend the Dem variety in the bluest of neighborhoods. They are crowded, diso...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Apple blogs: please stop confusing Apple shareholders with Apple customers

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Apple made bazillions again. They won’t pay corporate tax on it. The share price has gone up. That’s good for me in one way — I own index f...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Making of the modern pop song - fusion of the corporate and the anonymous individual

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was the apex of my popular music connection. In a weird adventure of late childhood I attended  Wint...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Crime and the enterprise

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What do Seagrams , YouTube , Uber , Elon Musk’s PayPal , 1930’s McKesson , Jobs Rip. Mix. Burn , and Las Vegas have in common? Many very su...

Reorganizations - did Petronius Arbiter really say that in AD 27? No.

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John Halamka is unhappy with the direction of federal health computing initiatives . He’s not alone, just about everyone outside of Madison ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Tech bubble 2015: Billion dollar acquisitions financed by the "rent" we pay MegaCorp monopolies?

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Stratchery claims retail investors are shielded from latest tech bubble because MegaCorp and Finance are buyers, not retail investors . But...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

IT and productivity - two noteworthy posts from Equitable Growth

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Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Google and the Net 2015: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 7th edition

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I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Where does all the time go - video training from SafeSports to corporate marketing.

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A few days ago The Economics published a long fluff piece on the allegedly modern malady of feeling we don’t have enough time — even though...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry

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I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Why do corporations do lifestyle "wellness" programs?

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Even with rather generous tax breaks, wellness programs cost corporations money. So why pay companies like South Africa's Vitality Group...
Friday, December 27, 2013

How to evaluate a publicly traded corporate employer

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There are many articles on how to judge employees, and many on how to manage typical employee interviews. What I don't see are blog post...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Strange loops - five years of wondering why our corporate units couldn't cooperate.

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Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...
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We do not understand the world in which we live

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It is always this way, on the micro and the macro. I didn't understand high school until college. I didn't understand medical school...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Michael Church's model of the corporate worker - a short critique

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Michael Church makes me look like a corporate fan. In a recent post he focused on startup culture ... Gervais / MacLeod 4: a world without...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Apple: What it would take for me to like you again.

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I'm an Apple customer. If Apple makes a hardware product, I buy it from them. I use most of their Mac and iOS software. That doesn'...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Hey Republicans: If you want to cut ObamaCare, try wellness programs

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Few people will have noticed new rules around corporate "health-contingent wellness programs" (emphases mine): Administration De...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Corporate growth and the unexpected triumph of central planning

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The American Economic Review tells us large corporations are taking up a larger share of our GDP ... The American Economic Review, Vol. 21...
Monday, October 08, 2012

RIFty Fifty

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It's not personal, it's just that wages are sticky ... Poorer but Wiser After a Year of Unemployment - NYTimes.com They are skill...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tom Cook's great test: the response to Apple maps.

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Contrary to Joe Nocera's impression , Steve Jobs' Apple screwed up a lot. MobileMe wasn't the only disaster; even iCloud was a r...