As an assistant with the Cincinatti Bengals, Bill Walsh developed an offense strategy called the West Coast offense. This system used multiple receiver sets and short, precise passing that countered the traditional football strategies of run-based offenses and downfield passing. Walsh later became head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and won three Super Bowls […]

Recently officials in New York have developed a new method to solve cases that have stumped law enforcement for years.  Inmates in fifty-eight county jails across the state will receive playing cards with pictures of people who are missing in hopes of finding information about what happened to these people.  The story can be read […]

In this election, the candidates have taken advantage of using social networking sites to promote their campaigns. With supportive groups on facebook (One Million Strong for Barack Obama) and some candidates like Mitt Romney getting an account himself, the candidates have sought a whole new area fight over: the internet. Using social networking sites allow […]

Is Marketing a Lemon Market? by Kolbrener, the lead generation experts
One of the most problematic “lemon markets” in society are those involving services, such as the labor market, as discussed in lecture and in the draft textbook.  I found this article entitled “Is Marketing a ‘Lemon’ Market” through the website of an unlikely source: a […]

As learned in class, an information cascade occurs when an individual is able to observe the decisions of others before they act, and it may be rational for them to choose to follow the others even if their own information tells them something else.
 We may not think about it that often, but many who use […]

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Those who know anything about Major League Baseball can see by looking at the current league franchise values, the rich teams indeed get richer. According to an Associated Press article, the values of MLB teams positively correspond to the revenue collected by them. As evident in the 30-team value rankings, as […]

In March and for months before, the world awoke to a rice crisis. The Associated Press brought the news to us in this article, explaining how many Asian governments are banning the exportation of rice, to help stabilize the costs in their own regions. It didn’t take long for this disaster to hit, albeit to […]

It has been frequently mentioned in class that the spread of disease, technology, or ideas may be modeled by social networks. In addition to those aspects, however, it was found by the National Institute of Health (NIH) that the spread of obesity can also be modeled by social networks, such as the social influence of […]

Cornell University prides itself as being a socially and racially diverse campus. Nearly half of all students are of non-Caucasian descent, and there is a rather significant number of each underrepresented minority in attendance. Knowing this, one would expect to see a melting pot of unparalleled proportions when strolling through campus. Cornell […]

ConversationMarketing.com is an online blog run by Ian Lurie that talks about Internet marketing. According to a recent blog, “LinkAdage is now offering the web’s first open to the public EDU blog community. This is a very unique opportunity for Webmasters and SEOs not affiliated with a university to control a […]