Kidnle Prices are coming down, not enough to appeal to students yet.  I have thought Amazon would ned to bundle this with some books, but the textbook companies tell me that AMazon will not come off its price. While the product down loads books from the net, it seems to me it would need to…

Kia has replaced the Spectra, which sold very well. Yet Kia says the car did not connect with its owners. Get this straight, management accounting is not just about numbers. How we feel (read How We Decide or my remarks on socionomics) determines what we do.  We are studying managerial accounting.  Benchmarking best practices is…

Improving business with superior design is another theme of the blog.  In this article we learn that Kia hired chief Audi designer Peter Schreyer. Sales are up so that a lower cost car now has a more chic image. Again I suggested that MBA programs would be improved with an emphasis on Design. Some around…

I believe that we should consider a graduate business degree with a Design component. Here is another example of what I mean. This is a photo of the parking lot across from the Municipal Auditorium. That is a new curb holding water in the parking lot. Yes you read it correctly. In the background is…

MIT is working on the iPhone of the future. I am not quite sure this is a great idea but  remember that the picture phone was a wonder of the 1960s, it took 40 years to get here but even with web cams has not caught on , I am not sure we really want everyone…

Does it catch your eye?  Is this a 'classic' Scagletti design? A collector thought so paying $12.1 million for this 1957 Ferrari Testa Rosa. Only  a few dozen were produced and it won consistently from 1958-1961. We will be studying  Total Quality Management and consumer preferences in Managerial Accounting. Ferrari is to this day a…

I cropped the photo down to this corner of each micro wave able box. See the difference? The contents are clearly labeled on the bottom box, not so for the top box. So if they are stacked in the freezer, a quick glance reveals the contents of the box. With the design of the top…