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- Get Live Site Tracking and Analytics with Woopra
- For many site operators, Google Analytics has long been the go-to service for getting traffic stats and other information. Now there's a compelling alternative: the unfortunately named Woopra, which offers a jazzier interface than Google Analytics and some nifty features. Among them: Live Tracking and Web Statistics â€" Woopra...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Why We Can't Stop Making Bad Decisions
- Might the bailout of the week strategy in vogue in Washington be simply irrational behavior on an institutional level? I hinted at this in Peeling Away the Economic Onion. I ran across this Shankar Vedantam column in the Washington Post, Taking More Risks Because You Feel...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Peeling Away the Economic Onion
- The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Cuts in Business Travel on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- The Find: Fed up travelers avoided 41 million trips last year, costing the U.S. economy $26 billion, and things aren't much better across the pond. The Source: A recent survey from the Travel Industry Association TIA. The Takeaway: Polling firms...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Analyze This
- Is better analytics the key to business success? In his "The Halcyon Days of Analytics," Steve Finikiotis of management consultant Osprey Associates argues that firms should be using analytics more effectively. It's an intriguing post, but a little thin on specifics. To wit, this statement: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- California: The Place to Be in Recession
- Predictions regarding the death of the importance of physical place to business have been coming out sporadically for the last decade or more. But if the chatter in the BNET blogosphere and beyond is any indication, reports of the death of place have been greatly exaggerated. Back...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Is London Losing Its Luster for Business?
- The Find: London has climbed its way up the league table to become a top city for business, but a new study reveals that the Big Smoke may be losing its hard-won place at the top. The Source: The latest CBI/KPMG London Business Survey of senior executives...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Bad References a Good Thing?
- Way back in 1984, an insurance salesman was awarded $1.9 million by a Texas court in a defamation suit because his employer, Frank B. Hall and Company, was asked for a reference and, perhaps too candidly, rated the salesman "a zero." Thus began the era of reference...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- GM's Lender/Borrower Double Standard?
- Are the folks at General Motors guilty of a double-standard, or hypocrisy, or possibly even an ethical breach, for the very different ways it's behaving as a lender and a borrower in the mortgage mess? They're at least guilty of not doing unto others as they would have done...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Expanding Overseas: The Best Large Markets
- The world's largest foreign markets are all growing — and making it easier for western companies to join their economies. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p {...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets
- Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Are Your Tax Dollars Going to Green Washing?
- The Find: The environmental performance of companies participating in voluntary environmental programs is 7.7 percent worse than companies that don't participate; if participating companies self-monitor their performance is 24 percent worse. The Source: A new study of more than 30,000 firms from researchers at George Mason University....
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Pay Your Taxes via Text Message
- Not looking forward to the Ides of April? A new startup called Sexat ("Taxes" backwards, get it?) has worked out a deal to let you SMS your 1099s and W2s directly to the IRS—no H&R Block schmoe needed. All you have to do is follow the simple guidelines on the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Alan Greenspan: Hero or Villain?
- Benjamin M. Friedman, a political economist at Harvard, has a review of Alan Greenspan’s "The Age of Turbulence" in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books (see Chairman Greenspan's Legacy). Why read a review almost six months after its subject has been published? For its nuance and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Stopping Online Crime
- Hardly a day seems to go by without some kind of major data loss incident occurring, despite companies spending billions of dollars on security technology. How does this happen? CSO Online has an excerpt, Famous for Fifteen Minutes, from Philip Hallam-Baker's new book, dotcrime Manifesto: How to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Yelp Help
- Yelp—the user-generated business rating site—aint just for restaurants and bars anymore. I just used the website to find a CPA to help me figure out my increasingly-complicated taxes. Yesterday, I used it to find someone to sharpen my knives. Last week, I used Yelp to find a plumber for a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Operations Research from the Master
- Our feature on Proctor & Gamble's use of operations research â€" a burgeoning discipline that utilizes deep mathematical analytics to drive all sorts of business decisions â€" is getting some attention, and from the right people. P & G's own OR guru, Glenn Wegryn, has weighed-in in the comments section,...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's an integral part of the company's marketing, sales and supply chain. ...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Understanding Allowable Business Expenses
- It's crucial for business owners to understand exactly what expenses can be deducted from total revenues and reported to shareholders, employees and taxing authorities. Some expenses are obvious: wages, salaries, and benefits you pay employees, for example. Allowable expenses also can vary according to activity, and thus can be a...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- The Causes of Our Economic Woes: an Alternative View
- The stock market fell and then rose nearly three hundred points in what had to have been a queasy day for investors. The turmoil in the markets and concerns about the economy are casting a shadow over an atypically gloomy meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The roots...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
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