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Severance Contracts: What About the Rest of Us?
Today’s post is another from my discussion assignments for the Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. I’m still in finals week right now for the Marketing and Stats classes I’m currently taking so I won’t have much time to post anything else. Today’s post is relevant to an event that occurred a few days ago […]
Fair Trade vs. Global Business
The material in this post is another discussion assignment from my Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. The two classes I’m currently taking are in finals week right now, so I likely won’t have much time to post new original content here this week but will try to write a post or two unrelated to […]
Intuit: The Small Business Helpers
Another day, another discussion post from my Principles of Management class at Umass Amherst. This assignment involved describing why a company on Forbes’ 25 best managed list was so well managed. I chose Intuit, the makers of Turbo Tax and other accounting software. If there are any Intuit employees out there reading this, I would […]
Au Bon Pain, Richard Thibeault, and the Controls that “Guide” Them
This discussion post, for a Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst, was in response to an article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “In Name Only: For Richard Thibeault, Being a `Manager’ Is a Blue-Collar Life — Grueling Hours, No Respect Make Low-Tier Bosses Feel Tired and Troubled — `Factory Work Was Easier‘”, written by […]
Timbuk2 Case Analysis
The below post was an assignment for the Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. The question posed was whether Frederick Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management would be beneficial for Rob Honeycutt, the owner of Timbuk2 Designs. Part of this assignment was also to post a response to my classmate’s responses; I have not included this […]
Javaprenuers: Corporate Managers Tackle Small Business Ownership
The below essay was written as a mid-term assignment for a Principles of Management class at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The very summarized case background involves two people, Jose and Gladys, who rose to upper management positions at Wal-Mart and J.C. Penney (respectively), yet were not content with their professional lives. The two […]
ABA, Always Be Authentic: A New Decree for Modern Salespeople
As a former sales representative, I have some insight into this week’s assignment: “Is the role of salespeople under appreciated by consumers and/or over abuse by companies? In your experience as either a salesperson or a buyer, what attributes of salespeople tend to be the most important or annoying?”. I submitted the below response for […]
Top Hit for “Social Network Revolt” on Google!
In my daily googling today, I searched for “social network revolt” to find some articles on the Digg HD-DVD AACS key controversy that occurred at the beginning off the week. To my surprise, the post I wrote early in the morning on May 2nd, “A Social Network Revolt:; Numbers, Banned on Digg.com” came up as […]
A Social Network Revolt: Numbers, Banned on Digg.com
Ironically enough, there’s a social network revolt being staged right now at digg.com, for the exact reasons I highlighted in my previous post. A certain set of numbers are spreading like rapid-fire across the internet. The numbers are an encryption key for HD-DVD that will let individuals watch HD-DVD’s on unsupported hardware and software, for […]
Freedom, Banned in Boston: Mayor “Mumbles” Menino Fumbles with WiFi
By modern standards, I’ll be discussing some old news tonight, but it’s important and a topic I want to throw in my two cents on. A little over a week ago, a Boing Boing reader discovered that the popular group blog was banned on Boston’s WiFi network (for more background on the story, Google “WiFi […]