Here's How Surge Pricing Could Work More Fairly For Consumers
Sibin Sahu, Academic Associate at #ISB, suggests ways for taxi aggregators to repackage surge pricing differently to make it more acceptable to the consumers. Read his suggestions in this piece in The Huffington Post: http://goo.gl/XCcQOE
Why people do find surge pricing acceptable for airlines and the Indian Railways, but not for taxi services? This could be due to two factors: (a) the dynamicity of the price fluctuation which is highly unpredictable and (b) because of the extent to which public relies on these services. Fortunately...
5/3/16 The Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is launching a fully online EMBA program with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM). The new EMBA will focus on healthcare and be targeted at alumni of the PCOM’s doctoral program in osteopathic medicine.
Read more via: http://www.bizedmagazine.com/archives/2016/3/people-and-places/new-programs
5/1/16 This spring, Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management in Ithaca, New York, added a seventh offering to its semesterlong disciplinary immersions: the Digital Technology Immersion (DTI), offered in collaboration with Cornell’s School of Computing and Information Science. Two-year MBA students who opt for an immersion spend the entire spring semester of their first year taking electives, studying cases, making site visits, and completing semesterlong consulting projects focused on a single area of business. DTI’s first run enrolled 15 MBA students and 15 information science students.
Read more via: http://www.bizedmagazine.com/archives/2016/3/people-and-places/new-programs
5/11/16 University of Miami School of Business Administration Dean Eugene W. Andersonwill step down from his post this summer. UM confirmed the resignation.
Read more via: http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2016/05/11/breaking-university-of-miami-business-school-dean.html
5/11/16 The dean of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City plans to step down, and the university is gearing up to find his replacement.
David Donnelly was named dean in 2014 after Teng-Kee Tan left for health reasons. Tan died a year ago.
When Donnelly took the position, he said he would lead UMKC’s business school for three years and then return to the classroom full time, teaching in the department of accountancy.
UMKC plans to name a new leader for the Bloch School in 2017.
#NBS Dean, Professor Ravi Kumar and Adjunct Professor Kay Segler write about the significance of understanding the forces shaping the #business environment in order to make the right #corporate judgement. They discuss how, in spite of the availability of many counter-measures, firms need to develop a specific toolbox suited to the environmental context.
From drawing up strategy plans to executing operations, raising capital to planning budgets, defining products and structuring sales channels, corporate management decision-making has always been a challenging one. Unfortunately, given the fast-paced, information age we live in, things are not going...
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