Darden Beijing Trip: Day 1 Arrival

October 11, 2008

Day one in Beijing! Follow our trip to from the airport to Beijing and our first meal in country!

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day 0 (Travel Day)

October 10, 2008

Today is a travel day to Beijing. Follow the adventure of the Darden EMBA class of ‘09!

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day -1

October 9, 2008

It’s Thursday and I’m blasting off to China tomorrow. I haven’t traveled overseas since the mid-90’s so this is going to be interesting. Reports are trickling in from classmates already in country. Fiddler reports being hustled by a Chinese cabbie for taxi fare twice the reported going rate. That sucks. [...]

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Darden Beijing Trip: Day -2

October 8, 2008

Two days out and I’m already getting emails from classmates that are either getting ready to head to China or are in the process. Sixteen months ago when we started this program, China was just a far-off concept. Intuitively you knew the departure date for China would show up, but like an out-of-town [...]

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Prediction Markets and the US Financial Crises.

September 26, 2008

Visit my prediction market!

It’s been a week.  Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that the US economy has seen better times.  You have to wonder how bad things are.  As in any crisis, there are mixed accounts.  There’s a fantastic list of potential calamities in a WSJ article this morning.  This thing reads [...]

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Awesomeness isn’t quite free – Ice Kream Koan brings free awesome back!

September 19, 2008

I’ve been following the Thirty-day Challenge with a lot of enthusiasm.  I really have to hand it to Ed, GuruBob and crew, they’ve really packed a lot of information into a very useful and concise package.  There’s huge value there!  Kudos to you all.
I’m impressed too with the tools that they are helping promote.  I [...]

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Economic Karma – Deleveraging America…

September 18, 2008

I’ve got a friend of mine who I always seem to be on the other side of the debate with.  His position is that the current financial meltdown is the result of a loss of transparency in the market.  There are those that point to SIVs and other off-balance sheet items as the protagonists in [...]

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A Lesson from Nash on Gridlock

September 11, 2008

The ability for economics to eloquently and succinctly describe complex social interaction continues to amaze me.  The Nash theorem describes a situation whereby the greatest economic benefit for society comes when all participates are aware of each other strategy and act accordingly and consistently.  The minute individuals start acting in their own best interests, the [...]

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Wikinomics, The Nature of the Firm, Social Networks and Outsourcing.

December 6, 2007

I’ve been reading an intriguing book over the last few weeks called “Wikinomics” In this extraordinarily engaging book, the authors build a case for a new economy. This economy challenges the dogmatic ideas of traditional “closed loop” business which subscribes to proprietary models of collaboration and innovation. The premise of this outdated [...]

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Picked Up!!

March 5, 2007

THIS JUST IN…
Thanks to Ross over at the RVA Blog for picking up the Ice Kream Koan!

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