“Patient Zero” Found

The origins of the current swine flu pandemic have now been linked to Edgar Hernandez, a 5 year -old boy from La Gloria, Mexico. Edgar has been recovering from the Swine flu and his symptoms. His mother originally blamed the flu from unsanitary pigs in the area, however testing on these pigs came back negative. [...]

Networks and Pandemics

We talked about networks some in class. Here is a good and easy to follow explanation of how a workplace contact network for good stuff (ideas, support) becomes the basis for a pandemic of bad stuff (swine flu). Is being able to collect and analyze this type of data something you would like to have [...]

Preliminary Instructions If You Are Doing a Wiki Article

Several of you say you plan to do a long wiki article for yoru final paper. Here is what I want you to do. 1) Write it (complete with any relevnat photographs, tables, figures, and so on.  You probably want ot use word. 2) You will post it to two wikis, hopefully.  First, the NEW [...]

The Glowing Puppy, Ruppy

A living glow in the dark puppy? If you think this happened with the help of science, well, then you are thinking right. Scientists in North Korea cloned the first fluorescent beagle puppy named Ruppy by combining red fluorescent genes that sea anemones produce. The purpose of this normal by day, glowing by night puppy [...]

Best of Last Week!!

Okay, so since we are the last blog council we decided to break the rules and give an award to everyone   Since, we all worked really hard during these weeks of classes and blogs. So now…dim the lights…and the awards go to: Best Use of Theory- Geoff – The Facebook Effect Wittney – Amusement [...]

The Facebook Effect

When thinking of Virtual Worlds, my mind has always jumped to conclusions. World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Webkinz are some of the first to come to mind. By joining these worlds, subscribers enter into a world much different from the one we live. We can chose from a multitude of “Second-Personalities” as I like [...]

Final Paper – Sustainability in Higher Education

For my final paper I would like to further explore Colleges and Universities as organizations, and how difficult it is to change them in order to accommodate for new innovations.  More specifically, I plan to look at the effect that the “Green Movement” and sustainability have had on higher education.  The green movement and sustainability [...]

Do the ChaCha!

Haven’t you heard?! Everyone is doing the ChaCha. If you think I am talking about the popular dance butchered by drunk parents at wedding parties, then get out from under your rock! Let me throw down a hypothetical for you…You are at a bar and you and your buddies have been arguing non stop about [...]

What’s the big deal?

Lately, Twitter is all over the news. Last week, Aschton Kutcher faced off with CNN to be the first user to have 1 million followers. Oprah just joined, bringing hundred of thousands of new users with her. So what the heck is this?

Final Paper- The Specialization of the Athletic Department

The topics of collegiate athletics always raise not only questions but also controversy. Collegiate Athletics have been one of the main focus points of several faculty/administrators meetings across the country, especially during these tough economic times. So, let’s start from the beginning, collegiate athletics started in 1843, when Yale created a boat club, not much [...]

Should there be more teams in the NFL?

The NFL schedule is like a perfectly Taylored machined. With the addition of the Houston Texans in 2002 the schedule seems to work almost magically.

Amusment Parks as a Center of the Vacation Organizational Field

For my final blog post I have decided to dive into one of my favorite forms of summer entertainment (Just to inform you all: Knoebel’s opens this weekend!!!) and analyze it using a few of the concepts from the text book. Amusement parks have been entertaining people around the globe for ages. The first amusement park, [...]

Final paper – Applying My Ideas to Enron

I want to use this as an opportunity to elaborate on some thoughts I’ve had regarding my final paper. Obviously we have spent a lot of time talking about Enron as an organization, and I think that the three themes I am covering in my paper can definitely be applied to Enron. First, I’ll recap [...]

Final Paper Thoughts

So here I am 15 pages into researching OSNs and already I run into a stumbling block. My initial thought was to concentrate on answering the question, what type of organization is an OSN? Fraser and Dutta, authors of the book, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work [...]

The Final Home Stretch

Final Paper Take II: IDEO

I definitely love Bucknell as much as the next person (I’d probably even argue more), but looking into how Bucknell operates as an organization doesn’t exactly exite me.  So, on advice from our wonderful professor I am going to write my paper about something that really intrigues and exites me – innovation.  Within the depths [...]

Visual Guide to the US Budget

Super-cool visual representation of the US Budget.

File Under “What Will They Think of Next…”

I am linking to this NY Times story about crazy adventure travel mainly as Dave told us about his experiences with the Bucknell Brigade in Nicaragua. Squinting in the Nicaraguan sun, I found the goggles that had flown off my head during my tumble and shimmied over to my board, slowly slipping downhill all the [...]

Final Paper Using Wiki

Several of you are planning to do the long form wiki article for your final paper. Here is the link for topics under Organization Theory on wikipedia (the big English one, en.wikipedia.org). As you can see, there is plenty of room for you to add a whole article. You will need an account. You will [...]

Final Paper: Newspaper Industry

Recently, the newspaper industry has  been making headlines (no pun intended) about the tough times it has been facing. Small daily newspapers have been folding around the country as they have become less and less profitable. This is in part due to the nature of the way that Americans receive their news. More people are [...]

YouTube, TheyPay

In talking with Evan about final paper topics, I came across a rather surprising headline: in a recent report published by Credit Suisse, YouTube is projected to lose its parent company, Google, $470 million this year alone. Wait…huh?

The Best of April 10 to April 17

Hi Everyone! The blog council (Jordi, Josh, Kristen, and Holly) met this morning and we really enjoyed discussing everyone’s posts. This week was a little different in terms of blog format because there was a mix of normal blogs and paper topic ideas, so our categories may seem a little more non-traditional than the usual [...]

Student Loan Programs

Here is a little from a NY Times editorial about the student loan program.  Interesting example of how the rules of a particular industry get written. This industry may hit a little closer to home than railroads or shipping. Private companies that reap undeserved profits from the federal student-loan program are gearing up to kill [...]

Organization Culture– Final Paper

After struggling to decide on my final paper topic, I have finally arrived at a decision.  I would like to continue my studies from class on organizational culture especially those cultures impacted by tragedy or change.  After reading The Smartest Guys in the Room I have become increasingly interested in the effects that culture has [...]

Final Paper: How economy affects sports

In the past few months, the economy has been on the fore front of the American conscious. Many of us, including myself, have a fair understanding of why and how our situation came to be this terrible, but do not fully grasp the complexity of the entire mess. This lack of understanding I feel creates [...]