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Asia’s Technology-Driven Futures

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What Business Discipline To Major In?

What Business Discipline To Major In?

Apr 28 2015 | comment(s)

You may find these remarks cynical. You may find them helpful.

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Ten Commandments For Airlines

Ten Commandments For Airlines

Apr 18 2015 | comment(s)

Following my Ten Commandments for Tech Companies – which changed their behavior not one whit – I offer these shalt-nots for US airlines.

Machine translation poetry

Machine translation poetry

Jan 03 2015 | comment(s)

Nonsensical but oddly beautiful Bing and Google translations from Facebook posts in a variety of languages:

袁嘟嘟第一次以老公的身分參加部門聚會，泡完湯好舒服

12 Common Mistakes In Empirical Social Science

12 Common Mistakes In Empirical Social Science

Dec 28 2014 | comment(s)

Management students entering my thesis prep course without having been involved in research before, or taken a probability course, reliably make these mistakes. Many students go on to do empirical quantitative theses, meaning that their misconceptions about sampling and analysis will come back to bite them.
Companies In Rehab (And Governments. And Universities.)

Companies In Rehab (And Governments. And Universities.)

Dec 24 2014 | comment(s)

A guy messes up his life, and the lives of those around him. We send him for rehabilitation: A jail term, AA meetings, community service, anger management classes, or restitution to victims.

Ah, Cuba

Ah, Cuba

Dec 18 2014 | comment(s)

Ah, Cuba. My father’s college roommate’s mother – are you following so far? – was a travel agent, and had gone on one of these agent junkets to Havana. She danced with the dictator Batista at a formal ball, and returned to the US with stars in her eyes. When my parents married, nothing would do, she insisted, but for them to honeymoon in Cuba.