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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lots of policy briefs

For those of you thinking about poicy briefs. A good resource for sources of policy briefs.

Ashoka and Changemaker resources

Here are the links to what I used in class. Youth Venture. Provides raw material for… (also here.) Full Economic Citizenship as a goal or mission. Needs a financial innovation. The HVAC More on HVAC. An example of the HVAC in action in Mexico with small farmers. Enjoy! Bonus: History of the Internet as it [...]

Follow Up on “Soldiers Kill and Rape in Iraq”

Up front, let me just be clear.  I think our military forces are mostly well-intentioned people.  We ask much of them, often to do their best in support of policies or goals that change or that they may not completely agree to. At the same time, I think any sober reading of war will show [...]

Where is the Stimulus Money going?

Resources  if you want to dig in deep. Find out how the government is accounting for our tax dollars. Cool graphic of all the money allocated last fall: Tracking TARP money:

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 [...]

You Thought the Dow Jones Looked Bad…

This is what the job loss in this recession looks like compared to previous ones.

Housing price collapse

This interactive graphic shows housing price collapses in 20 cities.  The issue of housing prices came up today.

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. [...]

Org Theory for Good

I have only started this article in s+b, published by Booz and Company, a consulting firm.  But its premise is very interesting: we are seeing a new wave of organizational forms and organizational technology to support business-social benefit hybrids. The idea also contains an explicit criticism of business as usual: The Soul of a New [...]

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?

Boo! A bear! And it’s not Halloween

Please don’t kill the messenger. h/t: Calculated Risk

Torture and American Values

There is a talk next week that I encourage you to attend.  Feel free to blog about it if you like. LEWISBURG, Pa. — Gitanjali Gutierrez, a 1992 graduate of Bucknell University who is serving as counsel for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, will give the talk, “Torture, Guantanamo and American Values,” on [...]

Useful graphic of Stimulus Bill

This is a useful graphic of the elements of the stimulus bill. To see better, make your view larger by hitting ctrl + in Firefox.  Or, click on link above.

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 [...]

Two interesting Living Wage resources

Ehrenreich’s book is about exploring low wage work in AMerica. Here are tow additonal resources. Living Wage Calculator Living Wage Research.