Guest Post: The Gamification of Holiday Shopping
December 17, 2011MBAOnline is excited to present this insightful, holiday shopping guest post by the folks at GLAD WORKS, a Rhode Island based full service graphic design, web design, drupal development, eCommerce, iPhone app development, marketing, social media, and PR firm. Businesses all across the U.S. and the world are changing the way consumers interact with and enjoy the holiday shopping experience....
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Social Job Search – Can Facebook Get You a Job?
November 30, 2011Click here to see the graphic! The eternal task of finding a job has undergone a couple of huge transformations in the past few years. Around the turn of the millennium, Craigslist revolutionized the job hunt by taking a city's worth of classified sections and condensing them into a single, easy-to-navigate web page. Now job hunting is undergoing another...
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The Benefits of Beauty
November 7, 2011Click here to see the graphic! We like to believe that our world is essentially a meritocracy: work hard, and you're going to get ahead. Unfortunately, things are far more out of our hands. At birth, there are numerous conditions that are totally out of our control, but that influence our paths through life dramatically. The biggest are the...
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How SMS Messaging is Changing the World
October 12, 2011Click here to see the graphic! Living in the United States, most people have a distinct sense of ubiquity of texting. When we're not busy texting, we're seeing someone on the street who is, and it has become apparent that the text message has irreversibly woven itself into the fabric of social life for a vast majority of us....
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The Patent War is Stifling Innovation
October 3, 2011Click here to see the graphic! 2011 has been the year that decisively marks the coming-to-light of the stupidity inherent in the way our patent system operates. After an enthralling episode of This American Life cast the spotlight on Intellectual Ventures, Nathan Mhyrvold's multibillion-dollar, patent-hoarding company, the story spread like wildfire and the larger public suddenly became aware of...
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The Great Flow of U.S. Debt
October 3, 2011Click here to see the graphic! The national debt has been one of the biggest talking points of the year in world politics. From the American debt ceiling fiasco in July to the impending crisis in Europe, the astronomical levels to which worldwide national debts have risen is have become a tremendous source of worry for economists, businessmen, and...
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Who’s Using What Media and When?
September 16, 2011Click here to see the graphic! It's sometimes amazing to step back and take stock of how much technology has penetrated our lives. The idea, even just 10 years ago, that every one of us would be walking around with a cell phone - let alone cell phones that could access the Internet, play video, and come equipped with touch...
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How Does Board Membership Affect Business Operations?
September 7, 2011Being on a board of directors is one of the most lucrative career options available. Disregarding the years of education and work experience the typical board member has, a nuanced job description requires board members to deliberate in board rooms for a couple of hours every week to earn lucrative salaries, stock options, and insurance benefits. Since the financial crisis...
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Grub With Us: Putting the Social back in Social Media
September 5, 2011
“In any real city, you walk, you brush past people, and people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.” -Graham (Crash)
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Applying the 80/20 Law to Everyday Work
September 3, 2011Simply put, the 80/20 Law states that roughly 80% of the effects are a result of only 20% of the causes. The 80/20 Law (also known as the Pareto Principle), originated in 1906 when economist Vilfredo Pareto observed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of its population. Since its...
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