Looking back all the time

Both, the economics and Financial Management professors have remarked, as have dozens of op-ed columnists, that most financial/economic solutions target the last crisis, and lay the seeds for the next one.I was wondering, aren't most MBAs also looking back, when the career-changers pick their new careers?...

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Music maketh the mood, or is it the other way around?

Today, there I was, in an Irish pub, a pint of bitter in hand, watching Man. Utd. a goal ahead against Fulham. Neither of the two entirely unexpected, neither me in an Irish pub, nor Man. Utd. a goal ahead of Fulham. Everything ho-hum.Suddenly, Fulham equalized. The game came to life, as did I, and...

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Age: just a state of mind, or something like it...

Last term, one of the more interesting exercises the class did was in O.B. We were on the eye-roll inducing, but easy, stuff, like 'what do you want out of life', 'long term goals' and how these things evolve with time. The professor then asked us to chart out the amount of time, as a percentage, we'd like to spend on 4-5 aspects (the usual suspects, personal, professional, family, social etc.), and...

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Net Neutrality Neutered ?

In all this hullabaloo over the Google-Verizon proposal,there are a lot of grey areas...One good point stands out. No company can pay an ISP to prioritize it's traffic at the expense of a rival.That, I think, pretty much retains the core idea of Net Neutrality.Then why is there a reluctance on one's...

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