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Engaged Scholarship Results are Impressive
Engaged scholarship is a very powerful tool. I recent created a project for students to college winter weather wear. Their results were impressive and they helped a local nonprofit called Keystone Missions that does important work in the Scranton community.
tecBRIDGE Radio Podcast #261: Work From Home
I sat down with Don Webster of tecBRIDGE Radio to talk about the Work from Home movement. We talked about both macro and micro aspect of the issue. In the end I shared a few tips for improve your own personal effectiveness when working from home.
Teacher’s Pep Rally Podcast: Entrepreneurship and College Students
In this episode of The Teacher’s Pep Rally, I discussed some of the theoretical academic aspects of entrepreneurship as well as some of the actual implementation aspects as a practitioner.
An Office Environment Revolution: The Working World after COVID
The Work from Home (WFH) movement is impacting many fields. However those in professional fields have been much more impacted than those in less professional fields. Perhaps none are more so than the accounting field.
Econ by Frank
In Frank's first book, he takes a well-established body of knowledge – economics – and attempted to change the delivery approach to a more modern concept.
The Future of Retail
The future of exactly how retail trade will evolve is not completely certain. It definitely will change, but the exact way that will occur is unclear. However, one certainty is that it will involve the use of emerging technologies. And the question for retailers is how willingly they will adopt these technologies.
The Importance of Consumer Surplus
Why is the Happy Meal such a popular product? Why do elite brands rise to thei top of their markets? How does iPhone excel in meeting customer demand? Why do companies focus on value added initiatives? Why is proper pricing a critical but under-emphasized exercise? The answers to these questions are tied to a concept found in economics called consumer surplus.
Marvel-ous Planning
[Marvel] has successfully transformed itself into a movie making machine and their approach is actually changing the industry. This is due to their vision and strategy. These have propelled them to the height of success today, and the company has not even scratched the surface of what it may accomplish.
The Two Aspects of Disruptive Innovation
Sensing disruptive innovation in the marketplace is critical to the strategy of any business. Disruptive innovation is the result of either a new technology or the mixing of previously unrelated technologies that create a shift in demand, generally in a movement away from the existing product or service.
Porter’s Generic Strategies – Simplified
In the original format, Porter originally laid out three generic strategies that a business could pursue. Over time, those strategies have been enhanced and refined. It is his original work and subsequent enhancements that offer an excellent approach to how business owners can look at their competitors in a market, and also glean tactics from players in other markets to carry out their own strategy.