Issue 4

“Organizations that get it understand that you can reduce your cost by reducing your environmental footprint.”-Roger Eacock[1] Read Full Story

Interested in motivation, Rochester experimental psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan conducted a study using a Soma puzzle cube. College students participating in the study were divided into two groups and placed into a room with the Soma cube and magazines. Each group was instructed to solve the Soma cube, but only one group of students were told they would be paid for correctly solving the cube. Read Full Story

The Backseat Girl“Fifth place is awarded to the Backseat Girl.” Read Full Story

A recent study conducted by the Boston Consulting group reported 19% higher revenues among companies focused on diversity than similar companies who do not focus on diversity.[1] However, companies often fail to see the potential in diverse employees and take advantage of the great success these employees can contribute. As a result, company leaders do not recognize the opposition these employees face in the workplace, or they believe that acknowledging these employees’ differences will worsen the situation. Read Full Story

“The worst student we had, the worst I have ever encountered, was in his life outside the classroom as mature, intelligent, and interesting a person as anyone at the school. What went wrong? . . . Somewhere along the line, his intelligence became disconnected from his schooling.”1 Read Full Story

“You would be surprised with how many people think credit cards are free money,” said First Colony loan officer Dan Ross. Unfortunately, this was something that Seth, a recent high school graduate, believed. One day Seth received a letter in the mail from a bank offering him a $2000 credit card. Poor, financially illiterate Seth believed the offer was free money, so he accepted the offer and spent all $2000. Soon he began to receive strange letters in the mail every month saying he owed the bank money, but he believed these bank statements were a scam. It was not until a few years later when Seth decided to buy a car that he realized he was several thousands of dollars in debt from his supposed “free money.” Read Full Story

The modern smartphone has more computing power than was used to send Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969. While this is an impressive feat signifying how far we’ve come with technology, some people in the business world have been asking themselves, what other advances have been made in computing that will revolutionize the world? Read Full Story