Berkeley business professor Hal Varian reports today that the unthinkable is true: Good-looking people (mainly men) consistently enjoy more professional success than their less physically attractive colleagues.
As if that weren't ...READ»
Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year. Many of those people have seen every single episode of "American Idol." There is clearly a correlation here.READ»
It's deja vu all over again. Three years ago, the FC team blogged about a report by Hal Varian that indicates that good-looking people often have better-paying jobs.
According to this morning's New York Times -- and a new report by ...READ»
Clinical Professor of E-Commerce and Technology at the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department, Kellogg Graduate School of ManagementREAD»
Rex Adams
Rex Adams is the dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Wrote about: Do Online Education and Training Click?
Is reading: On a daily basis ... the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New ...READ»
For the first time ever, Google's revealed its "Economic Impact": $54 billion of economic activity for "American businesses, website publishers, and non-profits in 2009."
Though Google may be huge now, it "began life as a small ...READ»
If only I had a dollar for every time a cashier asked whether I had one of those loyalty cards ... and another buck for every time I answered, "No." Hey -- give me 50 cents more each time I'm asked if I want one of their blasted cards ...READ»
Google has created a service that tracks Americans' search queries as compared to market growth--and it works.
The project, called Google Domestic Trends, is an outgrowth of the company's lead economist's research into whether Google ...READ»
