links for 2007-01-30

• Open Culture: Digital MBA: America’s Best Business Schools on Your iPod
  Very cool article summarizing the various podcasts offered by the top business schools. Meanwhile, McCombs is hard at work hand-wringing when it comes to ownership rights for podcasts.
  (tags: business learning education ipod podcasting utexas)

January 29th, 2007

links for 2007-01-24

• Smaller Customers Cite Complications Upgrading To New Yahoo Ad System – WSJ.com
  “It created a little more work for us, but we’re not hugely disappointed.” “You kind of feel like you’re stuck” How about those ringing endorsements!
  (tags: business advertising customerservice yahoo)

January 23rd, 2007

links for 2007-01-21

• Home Depot Directors To Visit Activist Investor – WSJ.com
  I actually went to Home Depot after reading this article. Everywhere I walked, bunch of aprons looking the other way. No wonder the guy’s pissed.
  (tags: wsj business investing)

January 20th, 2007

links for 2007-01-18

• Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs
  The man in the spotlight.
  (tags: mac technology History apple)

January 17th, 2007

Yahoo? “Meh”

Great article in Wired on what could have been at Yahoo.

Takeaways?

1. Reap what you sow. Hire a media boss, get media deals.
2. How does a technology chief not know — let alone care — about technology? Semel’s “TV wonder” is an amazing contrast to Steve Jobs’ Heathkit stories. No wonder Jerry Yang was on stage during the iPhone keynote.
3. The Lloyd Braun era: what the hell was that all about?
4. And that “social network” acquisition spree of ‘06? It’s history repeating itself. They buy a bookmarking site, then build one from scratch. Did the folks who waffled on Overture have a hand in this too?

January 17th, 2007

links for 2007-01-14

• If Your Friends Jumped Off A Bridge, Would You? – WSJ.com
  Excellent points raised by Mr. Greenberg on the challenges of investing as a contrarian.
  (tags: apple marketing technology business)
• AT&T to nix Cingular brand – Austin Business Journal:
  You knew this day was coming. Comes just in time for the iPhone launch too.
  (tags: business marketing branding technology)

January 13th, 2007

links for 2007-01-09

• Jacuzzi Brands, Inc.
  The history of the Jacuzzi buyout, from initial feelers, to meetings with prospectives, to offers, to final negotiations with Apollo. (via footnoted.org)
  (tags: business negotiation privateequity footnoted)

January 8th, 2007

links for 2007-01-08

• Maniacal Rage. You might remember a post…(04 January, 2007)
  A painful story in how NOT to write up a contract.
  (tags: software business law mac contract)

January 7th, 2007

links for 2007-01-05

• How to go to M.I.T. for free | csmonitor.com
  I like to pretend that people have the self-discipline to learn this way, but there’s a reason I’m spending $70,000 on my education.
  (tags: education mit learning university study free)

January 4th, 2007

links for 2007-01-04

• Wal-Mart Seeks New Flexibility In Worker Shifts – WSJ.com
  Wow, JIT labor! Fascinating approach to labor utilization. Personally I think it’s more about sending workers home than calling them in. If you’ve ever been told to “look busy” at your job, you know what I am talking about.
  (tags: wsj business bigbox economics retail)

January 3rd, 2007