Great Fashion+Hacker Blog

A student of mine for her final project creatded a blog about recycled fashion. Ditch or Stitch! Great name! Happy reading.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tax Day and Corporate Form Bonus

This week’s chapter, about the rise fo the corporate form, playso ut on the backdro of the basic institutional and regualtory background of capitlalist societies. Regulation and economic forces are on everyone’s mind as we survey the landscape in our new post-industrial, post-bubble Great Recession. So, I offer this longish article about Cass Sunstein, the [...]

Favela da Rocinha

Since the reading from this week’s class started with an entrepreneur in Brazil, I decided to write about the favelas in Brazil, but to use one in particular as a topic for my final paper; the  Favela da Rocinha. Favelas are shanty towns and unfortunately are very common in Brazil. “Shanty towns are units of [...]

AWESOME New Technology

This will change everything. When can I get this phone?

Really Cool Map of Knowledge

This was in NY Times. They use a measure of actual journal browsing behavior to create a map of knowledge. If you like this, you can take a peek at this map not of o-line browsing, but co-citation.  As in, I cite a paper in Journal B, but I am published in Journal A. Co-citation [...]

Simpsons on the Mortgage Crisis

I was watching Hulu today and saw this episode of the Simpsons. Homer throws a huge Mardi Gras party by taking out a home equity loan. His variable rate then increases dramatically.  Ross inspired me. http://www.hulu.com/watch/61224/the-simpsons-no-loan-again-naturally Enjoy! (I really wish I could embed this but we do not have the Hulu plugin installed yet)

Lesson Learned from Enron

I stumbled across this as I was reading more on Enron, here are the 5 Lessons Learned from Enron. The one lesson that stood out in my mind was lesson number five: Lesson Five: The secretary probably knows what’s really going on. Talk to the people doing the work, not the ones spinning the story.

The World Is A Business

This is a very thought-prvoking, if not provocative, video from The Movie Network (1976). I believe the title is “The Money Speech”

Best of February 24th – March 3rd

The Best of Bloginization This Week… General Tips and Suggestions:  Write with care, compose your posts in Microsoft Word to avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes. Review your posts at least once before publishing.  When adding hyperlinks to your posts, select the text you wish to link and click the Insert/edit link button (or press Alt + [...]

Skin in the Game Prevents OPiuM Addiction

Professor Guver in our Department has penned an article about the banking sector.  He advocates a  return to strictly private ownership of financial firms.  Go read it to get Opium pun. Go read it and comment!  The TNR site will drive some traffic our way, especially if you add our blog link to your comments. [...]

Enron: Who’s Accountable?

This is a neat (and quite detailed) study of the Enron case that was published by Time in January 2002. Check it out here… Enron: Who’s Accountable?

Dwight Howard’s Top 10 Career Dunks

Number’s 1 and 2 are RIDICULOUS!

Community and Rationality in Facebook

Your humble professor does his part to educate people and enhance Bucknell’s image.  Baltimore Sun Column: As Bucknell University management professor Jordi Comas puts it, “People aren’t trusting Facebook, they’re trusting the other people who use Facebook. When I see people around me using it, it gives it legitimacy and signals this is a community [...]

Best of Feb 16-Feb 23

Announcing This Week’s Best Of… Thanks to Ross and Blaire, this week’s Blgo Council.  They also wrote our new “About Us” page. Best Overall (content and writing) Zuffola’s “Rock Bottom” Most Theoretical Using the way back machine to pull in Fayol, the award goes to Kristin’s “Enron and The Former President.” The Blogitzer (Blog + [...]

I Guess It’s Your Fault

What happeend to our economy?  Why are we in a recession and facing massive structural problems in the financial sector?  If Wall Street is mortally wounded, or already six feet under, who has blood on her hands? I guess it is you…at least according to the American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Hassett. When Wall Street was [...]

The Best…

Of the first Two Weeks… Special thanks to Evan and Leah for being the first two guest editors on the Blog Council. Of course, none of their fine work could be included for consideration.  These were not easy decisions, so kudos to everyone for producing such good content. The council will provide individual feedback to [...]

Interesting Blog post

As you guys probably assumed after reading my first blog post on formalization in sports, I am a sport fanatic. I recently read a blog post on ortheory.net concerning how fans are reacting to baseball superstars coming out and admitting steroid use. here is the link: Blame the Owners Enjoy!

Happy cows with names make more milk?

I saw this online today and I thought it pertained to our early conversation. (Sorry can’t embed it) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7857178.stm

Authenticity and Food(ie) Orgs

This week you are reading about some different firms in the food industry.  One of my not-at-all hidden goals in the class is to expose my co-authors and students to a wide variety of types of organizations.  Since the WSJ and Financial Times understandably are heavily weighted towards publicly-traded firms, I like to look for [...]

The importance of threads

Great saying for ideas and how they link: Do you think me a learned, well-read man?” “Certainly,” replied Zi-gong, “Aren’t you?” “Not at all,” said Confucius, “I have simply grasped one thread which links up the rest. “ Recounted in Sima Qian (145-ca. 89BC)