From what I gather, the current unrest in the Middle East is being followed for three major reasons: 1) Concern about oil/safety/foreign relations (they’re all intertwined) 2) The growing power and role of social media (a little blue bird is toppling autocratic regimes) 3) When was the last time any of us (i.e. Americans) actually [...]
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Harrods Fashion and Beauty Director, Marigay McKee, on the Internet: Harrods is the World’s most famous Department Store. And there’s nothing like a trip to the store. However, with one physical location, the web is a vital tool in reaching shoppers on a global level, to match the power of the brand. We are just [...]
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Dear Reader, since my last post, a lot has happened, but, most importantly, I entered the worlds of post-college employment and investment management and consulting. I moved to Boston. I (very modernly and precisely) decorated my studio apartment on the Common. I put my Amex to work on red wine and a subscription to the [...]
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So it pretty much rained the entire month of June in Boston. The people at work have two competing theories for why this is so. Theory A: I’ve never worked for them before and they’ve never had a summer like this before so I must have brought it with me. If it’s sunny next weekend [...]
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You would think that after over a year of living in a different place every four months, I’d have this whole moving thing down. But, somehow, I seem to have gotten worse at it. My horoscope for the month said that my home situation around June 7 would be hectic and, hey, what do you [...]
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Just in time for the end of the semester, I have a little PowerPoint fact for all of you out there with final PowerPoint Presentations, and it looks like this: There is a reason that this is the most commonly repeated PowerPoint Public Service Announcement. Less words per slide means more audience attention. If you [...]
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Today, at 12 PM Eastern, Obama-Biden campaign is releasing a documentary that explains McCain’s involvement (and guilt) in the Savings and Loan crisis in the early 1980s. The documentary attempts to remind viewers that McCain was actually culpable in this situation and that his ties with Charles Keating, executive of American Continental Corporation, were not [...]
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We celebrated Indian Independence Day at Citibank today. In Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was complete with a flag cake and photos. I guess there are some ways in which Globalization 3.0 really does exist.
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The dollar is at 1.5005 to the Euro right now. That’s a .03 drop from yesterday; the largest drop all summer. (And trust me, I’ve been watching.) So, is it really connected Republicans who claim that the dollar got stronger because they “told it to” or is it because everyone in Europe right now is [...]
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They actually had to create something for me to do at work today. At one point, I was actually told to go read CNN. I never thought that being hard-working, deligent and efficient (yes, I have them all fooled) would actually make life worse for people. Huh.
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