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Articles

  • "A Small Business Guide To Selling On Amazon: Be Ready To Compete On Price" (Forbes 08/10/2017)
  • "Amazon’s Jobs Fair Sends Clear Message: Now Hiring Thousands" (New York Times 08/02/2017)
  • "Why Apple Is Experiencing Another Growth Spurt" (New York Times 08/02/2017)

  • "Big Publishing Wants To Co-Opt The Open Textbook Revolution" (Fast Company 07/28/2017)
  • "10 Companies Offering Unlimited Vacation Time" (Forbes 07/19/2017)
  • "Volvo, Betting on Electric, Moves to Phase Out Conventional Engines" (New York Times 07/05/2017)
  • "Luxury Cars Offer More Models, but Find Fewer Buyers" (New York Times 07/03/2017)

  • "A Street Fight Among Grocers to Deliver Your Milk, Eggs, Bananas" (New York Times 06/24/2017)
  • "Deep in the Malls of Texas, a Vision of Shopping’s Future" (New York Times 06/20/2017)
  • "Amazon Will Let Customers Try On Clothes Before Buying" (New York Times 06/20/2017)
  • "The Amazon-Walmart Showdown That Explains the Modern Economy" (New York Times 06/14/2017)
  • "Why Don’t You Donate for Syrian Refugees? Blame Bad Marketing" (New York Times 06/14/2017)
  • "G.E.’s History of Innovation" (New York Times 06/12/2017)
  • "New iPad Pro Inches Toward Replacing PC, But Falls Short" (New York Times 06/12/2017)
  • "Broadway Tickets, for the Price of an Economics Lesson" (New York Times 06/08/2017)
  • "You Can Still Be a Great Boss When You're Younger Than Most of Your Team" (Fast Company 06/02/2017)

  • "How Google Took Over the Classroom" (New York Times 05/13/2017)
  • "New Graduates: These Are the Unspoken Rules of the Workplace No One Tells You" (Fast Company 05/12/2017)
  • "Coffee Shops Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk" (New York Times 05/09/2017)
  • "Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon?" (Business Week 05/04/2017)
  • "A Look Inside Airbus’s Epic Assembly Line" (New York Times 05/03/2017)

  • "Amid Brick-and-Mortar Travails, a Tipping Point for Amazon in Apparel" (New York Times 04/30/2017)
  • "How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons" (New York Times 04/02/2017)

  • "Chase Had Ads on 400,000 Sites. Then on Just 5,000. Same Results." (New York Times 03/29/2017)
  • "Amazon Wants to Crush Your Store With Its Technology Might" (New York Times 03/25/2017)
  • "Familiar Names at the Store Want You to Stay With Them, Too" (New York Times 03/06/2017)
  • "The Struggle and Payoff of Setting Up Shop in an Airport" (New York Times 03/01/2017)

  • "For Marketers, TV Sets Are an Invaluable Pair of Eyes" (New York Times 02/25/2017)
  • "Business Schools Deliver Lifelong Education" (BizEd Magazine 02/22/2017)
  • "Is There an Ideal Length for an MBA Program?" (BizEd Magazine 02/22/2017)
  • "GMAC Releases Student Segmentation Survey" (BizEd Magazine 02/22/2017)
  • "Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data" (New York Times 02/02/2017)

  • "This Is What Recruiters Look For On Your LinkedIn Profile" (Fast Company 01/30/2017)
  • "Sears Clings to Catalog Thinking in an Online World" (New York Times 01/17/2017)
  • "6 Ways Embedded Analytics Can Change Your Business in 2017" (PC Magazine 01/05/2017)

  • "10 Website Fails Your Business Is Making" (Entrepreneur 12/30/2016)
  • "United Way Searches For Its Place in a World of One-Click Giving" (New York Times 12/23/2016)
  • "In Shadow of Amazon, European Challenger Looks to China for Inspiration" (New York Times 12/16/2016)

  • "Valuable Customer Interactions Are Data Driven Buy Always Human" (Fast Company 11/17/2016)
  • "United Offers Cheaper Airfare, but It’ll Cost You a Carry-On" (New York Times 11/15/2016)
  • "Why Executives Don't Trust Their Own Data and Analytics Insights" (Fast Company 11/04/2016)
  • "How the University of Alabama Became a National Player" (New York Times 11/03/2016)

  • "Gamification – The Next Big Thing in Service!?" (ServSIG 10/18/2016)
  • "How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More" (New York Times 10/15/2016)
  • "Why Samsung Abandoned Its Galaxy Note 7 Flagship Phone" (New York Times 10/11/2016)

  • "As Amazon Arrives, the Campus Bookstore Is a Books Store No More" (New York Times 09/16/2016)
  • "Department Stores Find Room to Grow in Canada" (New York Times 09/15/2016)
  • "How to Pick the Fastest Line at the Supermarket" (New York Times 09/07/2016)
  • "With Occupancy High, Hotels Seek to Avoid Online Booking Services" (New York Times 09/05/2016)

  • "Will Amazon Kill FedEx?" (Business Week 08/31/2016)
  • "G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up" (New York Times 08/27/2016)
  • "Why the Big Three Airlines Are So Much the Same" (The Wall Street Journal 08/10/2016)
  • "Local Online Retailers Turning Back to Brick-And-Mortar in Central Florida" (Orlando Sentinel 08/08/2016)

  • "The Same Healthy Food, But It's Cheaper Across Town" (New York Times 07/27/2016)
  • "7 Steps To LinkedIn Marketing Messaging Success" (PC Magazine 07/27/2016)
  • "Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices" (New York Times 07/03/2016)

  • "How Intel Makes a Chip" (Business Week 06/09/2016)
  • "Facebook's Formula For Winning At AI" (Fast Company 06/07/2016)

  • "Apple Thinks Different With New San Francisco Store" (c|net 05/19/2016)
  • "Why Microsoft Won't Extend The Windows 10 Free Upgrade Offer" (CIO Magazine 05/05/2016)

  • "The Most Expensive Movies Ever Made" (Forbes 04/27/2016)
  • "In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat" (New York Times 04/23/2016)
  • "Avoiding the Dreaded Middle Seat May Now Cost You" (New York Times 04/18/2016)
  • "Some Online Bargains May Only Look Like One" (New York Times 04/13/2016)

  • "Golf Performance Is Tied to Placebo Power of Brands" (Centre Daily Times (State College, PA) 03/31/2016)
  • "Hotel Chains and Travel Websites in a Tug of War for Customers" (New York Times 03/27/2016)
  • "17 Predictions About The Future Of Big Data Everyone Should Read" (Forbes 03/15/2016)
  • "It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning" (New York Times 03/06/2016)
  • "5 Biases Preventing You From Making Good Business Decisions" (Entrepreneur 03/03/2016)

  • "Disney Introduces Demand-Based Pricing at Theme Parks" (New York Times 02/27/2016)
  • "The 6 Biggest Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Brand" (Entrepreneur 02/26/2016)
  • "What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team" (New York Times 02/25/2016)
  • "Norwegian Air Flies in the Face of the Trans-Atlantic Establishment" (New York Times 02/23/2016)
  • "Delivery Start-Ups Face Road Bumps in Quest to Capture Untapped Market" (New York Times 02/11/2016)

  • "United’s Quest to Be Less Awful" (Business Week 01/14/2016)
  • "Uber’s No-Holds-Barred Expansion Strategy Fizzles in Germany" (New York Times 01/04/2016)

  • "The Most Popular Online Course Teaches You to Learn" (New York Times 12/29/2015)
  • "Universities Race to Nurture Start-Up Founders of the Future" (New York Times 12/28/2015)
  • "Jet.com’s Strategy: Low Prices, Fast Delivery, Happy Workers" (New York Times 12/26/2015)
  • "Starbucks Prospers by Keeping Pace With the Coffee Snobs" (New York Times 12/03/2015)
  • "Barnes & Noble Wants to Become More Than Books" (New York Times 12/03/2015)

  • "Lego’s Success Leads to Competitors and Spinoffs" (New York Times 11/20/2015)

  • "Microsoft’s Mission to Reignite PC Sector May Be Taking Hold" (New York Times 10/09/22/2015)
  • "Amazon Building a Tech Business for the Long Haul" (New York Times 10/09/2015)

  • "The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead" (New York Times 09/22/2015)
  • "Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department" (New York Times 09/11/2015)
  • "How Stanford Took On the Giants of Economics" (New York Times 09/10/2015)
  • "10 Pricing Strategies That Can Drastically Improve Sales" (Entrepreneur 09/09/2015)

  • "In-Flight Wi-Fi Prices Jump as Demand Surges" (New York Times 08/26/2015)
  • "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace" (New York Times 08/16/2015)
  • "Why Starbucks Prices Went Up as Coffee Beans Got Cheaper" (New York Times 08/16/2015)
  • "Smart Startups Learn How to Create and Manage Hype" (Entrepreneur 08/14/2015)
  • "Stores Suffer From a Shift of Behavior in Buyers" (New York Times 08/14/2015)
  • "Even in the New Alphabet, Google Keeps Its Capital G" (New York Times 08/13/2015)
  • "Want to Shop for a Surprise? Try a Subscription Box" (New York Times 08/12/2015)

  • "In Delta’s Frequent-Flier Magic Trick, Not Just Rabbits Disappear" (New York Times 07/31/2015)
  • "A New Florida Mall Defies Retailing's Headwinds" (New York Times 07/28/2015)

  • "5 Ways to Tell When, and When Not, to Stick to the Plan" (Entrepreneur 06/03/2015)
  • "Move Your Business Forward By Drawing a Perceptual Map" (Entrepreneur 06/03/2015)
  • "The 10 Hardest Interview Questions" (Entrepreneur 06/03/2015)
  • "Facing Elite Bloat, Airlines Move the Goal Posts" (New York Times 06/03/2015)

  • "David Letterman, Prickly Late-Night Innovator, Counts Down to His Exit" (New York Times 05/19/2015)
  • " Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age" (New York Times 05/18/2015)
  • "How to Get Customers to Respond to Invoices on Time" (CFO Magazine 05/18/2015)
  • "Water Pricing in Two Thirsty Cities: In One, Guzzlers Pay More, and Use Less" (New York Times 05/06/2015)
  • "Two Retail Veterans Take Aim at Amazon’s E-Commerce Reign" (New York Times 05/06/2015)
  • "U. of Illinois to Offer a Lower-Cost M.B.A., Thanks to MOOCs" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 05/04/2015)

  • "Microsoft Has a Far-Out Vision" (New York Times 04/30/2015)
  • "How 'Elite' Universities Are Using Online Education" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 04/10/2015)
  • "M.B.A. Programs That Get You Where You Want to Go" (New York Times 04/07/2015)

  • "How to Design the Perfect Logo" (Entrepreneur 03/31/2015)
  • "Be Your Guest? How About I Just Pay and Leave?" (New York Times 03/28/2015)
  • "10 Simple Things You Can Do to Be More Secure Online" (PC Magazine 03/23/2015)
  • "Turning To Education For Fun" (New York Times 03/19/2015)
  • "McDonald's Seeks Its Fast Food Soul" (New York Times 03/07/2015)
  • "Apple’s New Job: Selling a Smartwatch to an Uninterested Public" (New York Times 03/02/2015)

  • "The Upside of Waiting in Line" (New York Times 02/22/2015)
  • "8 Business Lessons From a 9-Year-Old Entrepreneur" (Chief Executive 02/13/2015)
  • "Chinese Phone Upstarts Sell With Personality, Not Product" (New York Times 02/09/2015)
  • "How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging" (New York Times 02/06/2015)
  • "The MOOC Hype Fades, in 3 Charts" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 02/05/2015)

  • "Target Ends Its Unprofitable Gamble in Canada" (New York Times 01/16/2015)
  • "Why Target Failed in Canada" (Fortune 01/15/2015)
  • "10 Tips To Craft a Strong Business Plan" (Entrepreneur 01/15/2015)
  • "4 Tips for Persuading People by Listening to Them" (Entrepreneur 01/15/2015)

  • "With Market Saturated, Starbucks Looks to High End" (New York Times 12/05/2014)
  • "Starbucks Wants to Be Fancy Again" (Business Week 12/04/2014)

  • "Professors of the Year Reveal What Makes Their Classes Stand Out" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 11/20/2014)
  • "5 Tips for Managing Clients' Expectations and Improving Client Satisfaction" (AccountingWEB 11/05/2014)
  • "Stanford Bets Big on Virtual Education" (Business Week 11/05/2014)

  • "Demystifying the MOOC" (New York Times 10/29/2014)
  • "Higher Creativity Through 12,000 Steps" (Business Week 10/28/2014)
  • "Method to the Madness: How Hotels Set Room Rates" (USA Today 10/26/2014)

  • "The $84.50 Reason Apple Wants You to Buy That Big iPhone" (Business Week 09/23/2014)
  • "Tim Cook Interview: The iPhone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture" (Business Week 09/18/2014)

  • "Business Is a Big Draw for International Students in the U.S." (The Chronicle of Higher Education 08/29/2014)
  • "Extreme Moneyball: The Houston Astros Go All In on Data Analysis" (Business Week 08/28/2014)
  • "How Facebook Redesigns for a Billion Users" (Business Week 08/20/2014)
  • "How To Sell in 60 Seconds" (Entrepreneur 08/16/2014)
  • "Can Universities Use Data to Fix What Ails the Lecture?" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 08/11/2014)
  • "How to Earn Customer Loyalty" (Business Week 08/07/2014)
  • "The Three Unexplained Mysteries of Taxi Tipping Behavior" (Business Week 08/07/2014)
  • "'Free' Offers Can Really Cost You" (USA Today 08/04/2014)

  • "The Most Powerful Ways to Start a Presentation" (Inc. Magazine 07/31/2014)
  • "Who Wants to Go to Business School in the Sticks?" (Business Week 07/30/2014)
  • "That Comcast Customer Service Rep Wasn't Going Rogue" (Business Week 07/18/2014)
  • "University of Utah's New Dorm Mimics Google Headquarters" (Business Week 07/15/2014)
  • "Can Bigger Overhead Bins Ease the Carry-On Bag Blitz?" (Business Week 07/11/2014)
  • "B-Schools Finally Acknowledge: Companies Want MBAs Who Can Code" (Business Week 07/11/2014)
  • "Twilight of the Pizza Barons" (Business Week 07/03/2014)

  • "To Lure Travelers, Trains and Planes Start Competing on Faster Wi-Fi" (Business Week 06/13/2014)
  • "Get It Right: Pricing Strategies That Work" (American Express OPEN Forum 06/03/2014)

  • "Taco Bell's Recipe For New Products" (Business Week 05/29/2014)
  • "The Trouble With IBM" (Business Week 05/22/2014)
  • "Lenovo, the Treasure Hunter of Tech" (Business Week 05/08/2014)
  • "Big Pharma's Favorite Prescription: Higher Prices" (Business Week 05/08/2014)

  • "The Dumb Way We Board Airplanes Remains Impervious To Good Data" (Business Week 04/23/2014)
  • "Airline Customer Service: Still Not as Bad as Cable TV" (Business Week 04/22/2014)
  • "Would Another Runway at Heathrow Lower Airfares?" (Business Week 04/22/2014)
  • "Spirit Airlines Sees All Those Passenger Complaints as Mere Misunderstandings" (Business Week 04/18/2014)
  • "Why Brooklyn Law Cut Its Tuition" (Fortune 04/15/2014)
  • "Why Can't E-Books Disrupt The Lucrative College Textbook Business" (Fast Company 04/08/2014)

  • "NFL Tickets Are Way Too Cheap (Especially in Green Bay)" (Business Week 03/14/2014)
  • "Half of U.S. Business Schools Might Be Gone by 2020" (Business Week 03/14/2014)
  • "Cost and Financial Aid Increasingly Influence Students' Choice of College" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 03/06/2014)
  • "What Massive Online Courses Do Well, and Where They Falter" (Business Week 03/12/2014)

  • "Disney's Magic Kingdom Nears $100 Tickets, and the Crowds Keep Coming" (Business Week 02/25/2014)
  • "A Caribbean Crowded With Ships Means Discounts for Cruise-Goers" (Business Week 02/12/2014)

  • "Academics Are Down on MOOCs. Business Schools Aren't" (Business Week 01/16/2014)
  • "For Indecisive Travelers, an Options Market for Airfares" (Business Week 01/03/2014)

  • "Yandex Searches Past Its Language Barrier" (Fortune 11/13/2013)
  • "Marketing Lessons From a Garage Sale" (Business Week 11/11/2013)
  • "The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge" (Business Week 11/07/2013)
  • "How Steve Jobs Made the iPad Succeed When All Other Tablets Failed" (Wired 11/02/2013)

  • "What Sports Can Teach About The 'Cautionary Side' of Big Data" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 10/31/2013)

  • "Why Your Startup Can't Find Developers" (Fast Company 09/26/2013)
  • "The Indie Bookstore Resurgence" (Fortune 09/20/2013)
  • "25 Things Influential People Do Better Than Anyone Else" (Forbes 09/18/2013)
  • "That Digital Tablet on the Restaurant Table Will Make You Spend More" (Business Week 09/17/2013)
  • "How Soutwest and Virgin America Win By Putting People Before Profit" (Forbes 09/10/2013)
  • "Why Foreign Retailers Stumble in China" (Business Week 09/06/2013)
  • "Risk Ahoy: Maersk, Daewoo Build the World's Biggest Boat" (Business Week 09/05/2013)

  • "Why Amazon Is on a Warehouse Building Spree" (Business Week 08/29/2013)
  • "HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists" (CIO Magazine 08/27/2013)

  • "How Publix's People-First Culture Is Winning The Grocer War" (Forbes 07/24/2013)
  • "Apple: Game Over or Room To Grow?" (Fortune 07/15/2013)
  • "Why the McWrap Is So Important To McDonald's" (Business Week 07/03/2013)
  • "Starbucks Aims for the Afternoon With Soda-Fountain Test" (Business Week 07/03/2013)

  • "3 Lessons Learned From a Failed Customer Feedback Software Test" (CIO Magazine 06/10/2013)

  • "The Post Office Returns To The Local Store" (Business Week 05/23/2013)
  • "Inside Google's Secret Lab" (Business Week 05/22/2013)
  • "What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students" (The Chronicle of Higher Education 05/20/2013)

  • "Sizing Up The Data" (CFO Magazine 04/29/2013)
  • "Are the Costs of 'Free' Too High in Online Education?" (Communications of the ACM April/2013)

  • "Walmart Faces The Cost of Cost-Cutting: Empty Shelves" (Business Week 03/28/2013)
  • "50 Greatest Business Rivalries of All Time" (Fortune 03/21/2013)
  • "Twist-Ties vs. Plastic Clips: Tiny Titans Battle for the Bakery Aisle" (Business Week 03/13/2013)
  • "The 1962 CIA Paper That Predicts The Big Deal With Big Data" (Business Week 03/13/2013)

  • "When Your Big Customer Wants to Pay Late" (CFO Magazine 01/28/2013)
  • "The Future According To Google's Larry Page" (Fortune 01/03/2013)

  • "Santa's Lucrative Business Model Delivers The Goods" (Forbes 12/21/2012)
  • "Google's Gmail Outage Is a Sign of Things To Come" (Business Week 12/17/2012)
  • " How The Bar Code Took Over The World (Business Week 12/17/2012)

  • "What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The One Force That Really Matters" (Forbes 11/20/2012)

  • "Can Apple Win Over China?" (Fortune 10/29/2012)
  • "Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users" (Business Week 10/04/2012)

  • "The World's Least-Popular Four-Digit PIN: 8068" (Slate 09/19/2012)

  • "The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula" (Forbes 08/30/2012)
  • "Death To PowerPoint!" (Business Week 08/30/2012)
  • "The Private World of Private Label Food Brands" (FoodProcessing.com 08/03/2012)
  • "Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check" (Forbes 08/01/2012)

  • "5 Essential Qualities For Entrepreneurial Leadership" (Forbes 06/08/2012)

  • "Five Ways To Make Your Company More Innovative" (HBS Working Knowledge 05/23/2012)

  • "The Future Retail Wasteland" (Business Week 04/12/2012)

  • "There's Basically Nothing You Can Say That Isn't Trademarked" (Business Week 03/21/2012)

  • "Moving From Products To Services: The Six Big Challenges" (Center For Services Leadership, Arizona State University, 02/16/2012)

  • "J. C. Penney's Risky New Pricing Strategy" (Business Week 01/31/2012)
  • "The Three Most Important Questions For Profitable Growth" (Forbes 01/28/2012)

  • "Lego Is For Girls" (Business Week 12/14/2011)

  • "Protect and Attack: Lenovo's New Strategy" (Fast Company 11/22/2011)
  • "Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon" (Business Week 11/22/2011)
  • "Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers" (Business Week 11/03/2011)

  • "How Visa Protects Your Data" (Fast Company 10/19/2011)

  • "Amazon, the Company That Ate the World" (Business Week 09/28/2011)
  • "Data Analytics: Crunching the Future" (Business Week 09/08/2011)
  • "How Not To Grow" (CFO Magazine 09/01/2011)

  • "How To Mine Social Media Customer Feedback Intelligently" (ChiefExecutive.net 08/12/2011)

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