Stock Picking and Alumni Networks
Most business school professors don’t spend a lot of time researching alumni networks. However, that subject is exactly what my finance professor, Lauren Cohen, has been researching for the last several years at Harvard Business School. Specifically, Professor Cohen has looked at the influence alumni networks have on a mutual fund manager’s ability to pick […]
Mobile Market Share Update
The Nielsen Company just released an updated analysis of the mobile market share in the U.S. Google’s Android continues to gain traction at a very rapid pace as it is deployed across a wide range of mobile devices. BlackBerry is still the leading OS at with 31 percent of the market. Apple follows with 28 […]
Do You Like to Like?
In light of The Social Network’s opening weekend success at the box office, we decided to focus on Facebook for today’s post. In late April, Facebook released a set of social plug-ins that were intended to make our traditional (non-Facebook) web activity more social. After six months, it appears the plug-ins are as powerful as […]
Why Are Class Notes at the Back of the Magazine?
Everybody loves class notes. How many times have you received your alumni magazine, only to quickly thumb to the back section to peruse tweet-like updates from your classmates? Class notes continue to be the primary way that most (non Facebook-friend) alumni stay connected. I was recently reading a UMagazinology blog post that referenced the findings of […]
The Impact of Athletics on Alumni Giving – Men vs. Women
David Katz forwarded me an interesting article from the Harvard Business Review Daily Stat this week. The headline cuts to the chase: “When a male ex-athlete’s former college team wins a conference championship, his donations to his alma mater increase 7%, according to Jonathan Meer of Stanford and Harvey S. Rosen of Princeton. There’s no […]
HomeAway: Alumni-to-Alumni Home Rentals?
In light of the fact that the month of August is the last chance many people in higher education will have to take an extended vacation, I’ve decided to profile a neat application that is not *exactly* alumni-related. HomeAway is an Austin-based vacation rental home company that created quite a splash with this funny Clark […]
Flipboard, Social Media and Alumni Relations
Flipboard is really, really cool. It launched earlier this week and has been an instant success, other than some server issues. In short, Flipboard is pioneering a new category of social magazine. The company just launched a free iPad app. “Flipboard is mining the hundreds of millions of Web links posted each day on two […]
"Mobilize" Your Alumni Magazine – For Free!
We’d like to share a trick with alumni magazine publishers that will help you make your publication “mobile friendly” in a couple of very simple (free!) steps. To do this, we’re going to use a great tool called Scribd. In their own words, “Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people […]
"Mobilize" Your Alumni Magazine – For Free!
We’d like to share a trick with alumni magazine publishers that will help you make your publication “mobile friendly” in a couple of very simple (free!) steps. To do this, we’re going to use a great tool called Scribd. In their own words, “Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people […]
Pandora Music and Alumni Relations?
We are big fans of Pandora. Pandora is self-described as “the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites”. You pick a song or artist you like, and Pandora uses its algorithm to play similar songs of a similar genre. Pandora has over 50 million enthusiastic […]
Apps by Platform: Apple > Android > BlackBerry
Earlier this month, I posted a slide from Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report. I really like the content and organization of the report, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mary Meeker presented an updated version from her talk at the Conversational Marketing Summit in New York two weeks ago. If you’re interested in […]
Apps by Platform: Apple > Android > BlackBerry
Earlier this month, I posted a slide from Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report. I really like the content and organization of the report, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mary Meeker presented an updated version from her talk at the Conversational Marketing Summit in New York two weeks ago. If you’re interested in […]
