Friday July 29, 2011 Here is a link to some of the most creative resumes around. I suspect there is a good reason to let your resume do the talking for you by demonstrating what in fact you can do.    Here is an example of a resume for a creative graphics job. This may be too…

Monday July 25, 2011 The unemployment picture turned worse at the beginning of may and continues to do so.  This report on long term unemployment is a must read for students.  Since the collapse in 2008, the number of jobs available each month is much lower. Meanwhile the number of people looking for jobs who lost a…

Wed July 2, 2011 Barry Ritholtz posted this Final Exam for aspiring business students. How well would you do?

Tuesday July 19, 2011 The College of Business moves to Brooke City Base to begin classes this Fall Semester, which is to say August. We had our first look at the facility today.  First, the correct address is at the left, 2601 Louis Bauer Drive.  The address currently shown under Quick Links is 6201 which…

Monday July 18, 2011   I just received a god inquiry from a student about the bond market. As he said, the textbook assumes that one knows a good bit about bonds. So here are a few suggestions regarding free on line sources to read.  The bond Book This is an excerpt from Google Books The…

Thursday July 7, 2011 I have been wondering when where who would finally make inexpensive video conferencing a reality. It looks lke the competition between Google and Facebook will make this happen. This article relates that video conferencing is available on Google now called Hangout. Facebook will roll out a one on one in short…

Monday July 4, 2011 I am convinced that during any given class, no more than one-third of the class is listening to the Prof at any given time. Now understand I do not mean that the same one-third listens the whole period.No rather the class as a whole drifts in and out of the environment…

Monday July 4, 2011 Jamie Dimon is the CEO of J P Morgan Chase, a leading member of the Too Big to Fail Club. I would suggest you read about the incredible bets his traders were making via CDOs and Credit Default Swaps in Michael Lewis The Big Short first.  But at any rate, here…

Tuesday June 28, 2011 Xiaoling Qin Visiting Doctoral Chinese Scholar will speak at the Gillette Campus this Thursday at 2 PM.  I have visited with her. She is, at least this is my understanding, both a certified accountant and a lawyer in China. Her dissertation is on Legal Issues in the Classroom.  I put up…

Sunday June 26, 2011 This is an interesting idea. Fast Company magazine held a conference and had attendees answer a simple question about leadership, marketing, innovation, etc.  They call it 30 Second MBA. I watched several of the clips. What I want you to observe is not so much what they say as the mechanics of…