Description: William Hill’s early wager may soon pay off. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: Apr 12, 2018 Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-12/the-british-bookmaker-betting-big-on-american-sports-gambling Questions for discussion: Summarize what the article says about the industry and the players in it. Do you think behavior in the gaming industry is similar to that in the stock market?
Posts Categorized: Planning
Why An Investor is Smarter Than Your CEO
Description: Over the last 50 years, the New York Stock Exchange has outperformed all of its constituent companies. To beat this performance, companies will have to build internal markets for resource allocation. Source: GaryHamel.com Date: Apr 08, 2018 Link: http://www.garyhamel.com/video/why-investor-smarter-your-ceo Questions for discussion: What are the lessons for management and organizations to consider, as argued… Read more »
Aeroplan member offended by survey asking provocative questions on immigration, male dominance
Description: Survey asked if participants thought immigration ‘threatens the purity of the country Source: CBC.ca Date: Apr 02, 2018 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aeroplan-survey-crop-immigration-1.4599686 Questions for discussion: Summarize the ethical and social issues raised in this report. Is this much ado about nothing, in your opinion? How should management at Aeroplan handle research designs going forward?
New Numbers Show the Gender Pay Gap Is Real
Description: There’s an essential, frustrating truth about the gender pay gap: You can size it up or down depending on what you’d like to measure—and what you’d like to measure depends on what you think the pay gap is. Are you talking about all women across the economy? In a specific industry? A specific company?… Read more »
Trump claims the post office is losing billions because of Amazon, but it’s a lot more complicated
Description: President Donald Trump is clearly not a fan of Amazon. He attacked the company via Twitter five times in the last week. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Apr 06, 2018 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/trump-claims-amazon-is-ripping-off-post-office-but-its-complicated.html Questions for discussion: What does the report say about delivery logistics at Amazon? Why would Amazon be motivated to use multiple delivery services rather… Read more »
How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet
Description: It was a Davos for digital hucksters. One day last June, scammers from around the world gathered for a conference at a renovated 19th century train station in Berlin. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: Mar 27, 2018 Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them Questions for discussion: Summarize the warnings managers and users should take away from this article? Can anything… Read more »
March (Streaming) Madness
Description: A pioneer in live streaming, the NCAA now is seeing its aggressive early efforts pay off with broadcast-size audiences and ad rates. To mark the national college basketball championships, we break down the sports streaming data on our “Behind the Numbers” podcast. Source: eMarketer.com – podcast Date: Apr 02, 2018 Link: https://www.emarketer.com/content/sports-streaming-podcast?ecid=NL1001 Questions for discussion:… Read more »
Walmart Pulls Cosmo From Checkout. Plus! Guess Who’s Claiming Victory.
Description: Walmart customers looking to toss the latest issue of Cosmopolitan magazine into their shopping carts will have to search the superstore a little harder. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Mar 28, 2018 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/business/media/walmart-cosmo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&action=click&contentCollection=business®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront Questions for discussion: What does this debate say about changing social attitudes? How should retail managers and publishers deal with the debate… Read more »
Facebook Is Making Big Changes to Its Relationship With Data Brokers
Description: Facebook is placing new limits on the data it shares with data brokers—companies like Acxiom and Oracle Data Cloud, which compile dossiers on consumers so as to make it easier for advertisers to target them with appropriate pitches. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Mar 29, 2018 Link: http://fortune.com/2018/03/29/facebook-data-brokers-changes/ Questions for discussion: What are the changes taking… Read more »
Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future
Description: Vegetarians have long touted the ethical and environmental problems with meat production and consumption. Start-ups such as MosaMeat, JUST and Memphis Meats are tissue-engineering meat in a lab to allow people to enjoy being a carnivore without any of the environmental or ethical hang-ups. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Mar 23, 2018 Link:… Read more »
