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 […]
Integrated Marketing Communications: Amazon.com
The goal of this essay, for the Fundamentals of Marketing class at Umass-Amherst, was to “Explain what it means to have “integrated marketing communications”. Include issues such as how to measure results. Pick a company and describe how you view their use of Integrated Marketing Communications…”. I’ve yet to receive a grade for this paper, […]
One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
The requirements for the fourth written response for my Statistics II course at UMass Amherst was: “Explain in your own terms the test for analysis of variance. What does an ANOVA test? Why is it useful? On what type of data would you apply it? What is the logic behind the test? Why does it […]
Upgrades & Cleanup
There’ll be some changes to this blog in the coming days, mostly in the WordPress theme and general layout of the site. I’ll be re-arranging and consolidating the categories you see in the side-bar to the right, as well as fixing a few things behind the scenes. If anyone has any suggestions, complaints or ideas, […]
Central Limit Theorem
The description for this assignment is as follows: “Given a non-normally distributed population such as the bimodal population which is pictured in figure 6-8, discuss and explain how such a population can have a frequency distribution of sample x-bars as shown in figure 6-9. How does Figure 6-8 relate to Figure 6-9 and then how […]