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After wrapping up Thanksgiving leftovers, evidently online shoppers started buying on Thanksgiving and did not let up through Cyber Monday. By 6 pm on Monday, Eastern time, sales were 20% higher than during the same time period on the Monday after Thanksgiving a year ago, according to Coremetrics. The Wall Street Journal reported a 31% [...]

I’ve been putting off writing this blog for a couple of weeks.  Although I think the topic is important and interesting, I just couldn’t get around to it.  I don’t know.  I had a lot of other stuff to do.  I had to go to this meeting. I wasn’t feeling all that well.  I was [...]

I’m happy to share the thoughtful ideas of another guest blogger, Lauren McClean.  Lauren is in her first year in the MBA program at Loyola. In her very spare free time she enjoys exploring all that Chicago has to offer with her trusty sidekick, Knuckles, her 2 year old golden retriever. The definition of “Green” [...]

Since my last two Thanksgivings have been spent in China, I approach this forthcoming holiday weekend with great anticipation and renewed affection.  Searching for a turkey in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai was a challenge; turkeys were as rare as proverbial hen’s teeth. Moreover, pies, if they can be found, would never be made with pumpkin.  I’ve come to [...]

In 1987 director Oliver Stone created Wall Street, the first of two films that critique the mind set of many high stake players in the financial community. Players who embrace a value system that places profits and wealth, “doing the deal”, and winning above all other considerations. In 2010 Stone released Wall Street: Money Never [...]

You may have read or heard that San Francisco recently voted to prohibit fast food restaurants from including toys with children’s meals. So Happy Meals suddenly became a bit sadder. But wait—press coverage of the event has left out a few details. There is more to this story. The ordinance, which is not slated to [...]

A warm welcome to our next guest blogger, Ms. Eunmi Choi. Eunmi is currently pursuing a dual degree of an MBA, with a concentration in Management, and a Master in Science of Information System Management (Candidate of 2011).  She is a president of Net Impact (Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business Chapter). Net Impact [...]

Former Congressperson Tipp O’Neill once famously said: “All politics is local.”  The elections this November reinforces O’Neill point, but in rather unusual fashion.  Somehow this last election cycle was both local and national, all at the same time.  In looking at the final outcomes in the House of Representatives, the Senate and Governors mansion, the [...]

To find an appropriate and hopefully cleaver name this blog, I called upon the extensive creative talents of the students in Loyola’s Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communication (MSIMC) Program.  To make the “contest” interesting, I offered a set of 4 tickets to a Bull’s game as a prize. My call for suggestions was [...]

The phone rang much too early in the morning, and woke me from a sound sleep.  My mother used to say that getting a phone call early in the morning or late at night usually meant bad news.  And, this time, she was right.  It was my cousin, and he called to tell me my [...]