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DURHAM It was no surprise that Duke was a near-unanimous pick to finish last in the Coastal Division in the media poll at the ACC Kickoff.
No, the biggest surprise was that three of the 87 voters actually picked the Blue Devils to finish fifth in their six-team division.
Duke has been picked dead-last either in its division or (before expansion) in the league as a whole in every ACC Kickoff poll since 1999, when coach Carl Franks' first team was picked seventh in the nine-team league.
That team actually finished tied for fifth, but in recent years the writers have been right about Duke much more often than they've been wrong. Duke has finished last or tied for last in every season of the 21st century except one. That one exception came in 2003, when interim coach Ted Roof beat North Carolina in the season finale to finish eighth, a game ahead of the ninth-place Tar Heels.
Roof, now starting his fourth full season as the Duke head coach with a 5-34 record (3-25 in ACC play), said he didn't expect anything but a last-place vote in this year's preseason poll.
Where else would the media pick Duke?
"We've got to play our way out of it," Roof said. "We can't politic or poll our way out of it. We've got to block and tackle our way out of it."
Despite Roof's realistic appraisal, there's a surprising amount of optimism surrounding a program that's gone 1-10 and 0-12 in the last two seasons.
"Everybody's upbeat," senior fullback Tielor Robinson said. "You wouldn't think we'd lost every game last year if you were around and saw the atmosphere. It's amazing."
There are at least a few tangible reasons to suggest that Duke might be better this season:
- The overall experience of an offense that returns 11 starters.
The downside of that is that Duke finished 11th out of 12 ACC teams in total offense last season and 12th in scoring offense. But the Blue Devils would point out that was with the ACC's youngest offense, one featuring a true freshman quarterback and the least experienced line in Division I-A football.
"You can't just throw people in, and in their first starts, and expect immediate results," Robinson said. "There's a learning curve. I feel like this year on offense, we have a lot of experience. At the end of last year, we put up some good numbers."
- The tandem of Thaddeus Lewis and Zack Asack at quarterback.
Asack, who started the second half of the 2005 season as a true freshman, missed last fall on academic probation. His absence forced true freshman Thaddeus Lewis to start 11 of 12 games.
Lewis threw for 2,134 yards, the fourth-highest total for a freshman quarterback in ACC history. Considering that two of the three freshmen with more yards were redshirts, while the third (N.C. State's Philip Rivers) enrolled a semester early and was on hand for spring practice before his first year, Lewis' achievement is even more significant.
"I think he has a chance to be a very good football player in this league," Roof said. "Obviously, we'd have liked to redshirt him, but we couldn't. But we're going to benefit this year by having him play last year."
Roof is going to benefit more at having two quarterbacks with starting experience on hand, now that Asack has returned.
- The added experience on Roof's coaching staff.
"I used to be one of the oldest coaches on the staff," Roof joked. "Now I'm one of the youngest."
That's only a slight exaggeration. His 2007 staff has 58 years more experience than his 2006 coaches. His staff includes two former head coaches, including Duke grad John Gutekunst, who has been in coaching for four decades. New offensive coordinator Peter Vaas is a former head coach in NFL Europe who spent the last two years tutoring Brady Quinn at Notre Dame.
Of course, Roof still has some very real concerns especially his inexperienced cornerbacks, his rebuilt kicking game and a schedule that demands four straight road games after the home opener against Connecticut.
That is shaping up as a vital game for a team that will enter the 2007 season with the nation's longest active losing streak.
"Certainly, getting off to a good start would set us off on a good race," Roof said. "But you don't focus on it. We've got the same record as everybody else right now. We have to believe we've made a lot of progress. We know we've made a lot of progress and believe we're close."
A year ago, Wake Forest was projected in the ACC Kickoff poll to finish sixth in the Atlantic Division. Instead, the Demon Deacons won 11 games, beat Georgia Tech in the ACC title game, and played in the Orange Bowl.
Duke's not likely to match Wake's surprising success. But the Deacons' 2006 season should serve as a warning that nothing not even something as consistent as Duke's ineptitude on the gridiron lasts forever.
Duke basketball, which will be seeking to rebound this season after its worst year in more than a decade, hasn't had a lot of good luck this offseason.
The Blue Devils' problems started when sophomore center Brian Zoubek the only true post player on the roster next season suffered a broken foot in a July pickup game. It's the same injury that plagued big men Elton Brand and Carlos Boozer during their time at Duke.
Zoubek, who played little as a freshman, appeared to have made himself much stronger in the four months since Duke's season ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He's now projected to miss eight to 10 weeks of work, which means that he should resume workouts in September and be ready to go by the start of preseason practice in October.
Zoubek's injury was followed by another broken bone, this one suffered by swingman DeMarcus Nelson, Duke's top scorer in 2006-07 and the only senior on the 2007-08 roster.
Nelson was trying out for the U.S. Pan Am team in Hartford, Conn., when he suffered his injury. The fractured scaphoid bone was repaired at Duke Medical Center. He's expected to miss six to eight weeks, meaning that he should be cleared to play at about the same time as Zoubek.
As if that wasn't enough, incoming freshman forward Kyle Singler, on campus for summer school, suffered a minor toe injury in a pickup game and was briefly on crutches. However, his problem was not serious, and he was sidelined for only a matter of days.
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Not Everyone Loves GTA - Interview with the Parents Television Council
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See guys! I am trying to stop back in more, even if it is to share some of my stuff from over at GI. I posted this yesterday and thought you guys might be interested. If I am going to get a wide array of comical opinions on the subject matter anywhere, it will be here. If you have a chance to read the interview let me know what you think!
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LOS ANGELES (April 23, 2008) With the next installment of the violently graphic Grand Theft Auto video game set to be released next week, the Parents Television Council called for retailers to keep the game away from children.
Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City, rated M (Mature), is set for release April 29. The Grand Theft Auto games include constant graphic violence and sexual situations. In past versions, players could re-enact having sex with a prostitute, beating her bloody, taking her money and running her over with a car; shooting at police officers; and, by using a code easily accessible on many internet sites, having a realistic sexual encounter on screen -- complete with audio commentary. This modification in the 2005 game was not disclosed to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) when they classified the game M, which carried a suggested age of 17 and up for purchase.
This brutally violent video game must be kept out of the hands of children, and we are calling on all major retailers to reconsider any decisions to sell this game. Since the first version was released in 1997, the Grand Theft Auto series has lowered the bar for graphic and grotesque video game content, said PTC President Tim Winter.
While most of us are in a euphoric haze from playing GTA IV, it can be easy to forget that not everyone is excited about the release of Rockstars hit. I had a chance to chat with the Parents Television council the organization responsible for the above press release and talk about the game, the role of parents in keeping Mature titles out of their kids hands, and the legislative plans of the PTC. If you have some time on your hands,
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New Cosplay: Mamimi from FLCL and Super Mario Sisters!
on 04.23.2008
Hey Guys! I wanted to stop in and say hi again! I plan on doing another quick post with some of my writing updates, and some info about my trip to Midway Gamers Day. Work keeps me pretty busy and I am trying to fit more gaming time in than ever to stay updated. This means most of my online profiles are going quiet, so I apologize for not hanging around as much as I would like. For now I realized I never did a blog about my newest cosplay costumes, Mamimi from the anime FLCL and Mario from our Super Mario Sisters spin-off! I remember telling a few of you about the costumes in my last post and now they are done and all photographed. I am staying busy with costumes though; I am finishing up Zatanna and Elektra for the next two weeks back to more my style cosplay lol
Super Mario Sisters:
This costume started out as a way to get one of my friends to try cosplay for Anime Detour 2008. She loves Nintendo, so we figured Mario girls would be a easy first costume for her. Haha easy right. At first we were going to hit up some thrift stores and try to find denim overalls, but we fell in love with this quilted fabric at the store. We grabbed some blue for Mario and Luigi, and purple for Wario. Making the overall-skirts took an entire day because the pattern I grabbed was really confusing. It was my first time sewing ever and I had never used a pattern before so we had some trouble. Lots of backtracking and removing stitching needless to say. In the end, I dont think you can tell how much we struggled with the skirts.
The three of us got our shirts at American Apparel, so they are really comfortable. We decided to do white tights and matching shoes. The shoes we are wearing are the only ones all three of us could agree on, which sucked because we could not find the right sizes. One of us was wearing shoes a size too big and one a size too small. I picked up three pairs of white gloves at Party City, and got the hats at Target. We took the ribbon that was on the hats off, and ended up using fabric markers to color the hats. That took FOREVER, but it was the best way to match our colors perfectly without mixing dye. We ironed on the white circle and little letter and we were done!
Wario had a plushie coin cube at home a well as a Yoshi, so I brought along my Goomba so we would all have something to pose with. We did a photoshoot before we went to the convention, where we had one of our guy friends join us. When he found out we were doing female versions of Mario characters, he decided to go as Prince Peach. He made a kilt and carried around a golden golf club. When people realized what he was, it was epic. At the shoot we goofed around a ton and took some silly photos. I am happy with the results!
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I usually do comic book or video game related costumes, so I was really excited to step out of my shell and try something different with Mamimi. FLCL was the first anime I ever watched, and my friend really wanted to dress as Haruko so it seemed perfect for me to go as Mamimi.
The costume was supposed to be really easy, but as most of you probably know everything is always more of an endeavor than we first think it would be. I found a blue zip-up right away and modified it by cutting off the hood and adding a collar. Considering I had never sewn before in my life, it was much harder to figure out than I thought it would be. In the end it worked out well enough. The skirt was defiantly the hardest part. I bought a pattern and went at it. Pleats are hard!!! The skirt turned out pretty well in the end. I ordered the wig from eBay and was really happy with it. I love the highlights in it and it is just the right length.
The socks were easy enough to find at a local retail store, where I got the shoes as well. I will be honest, the shoes are ugly as hell but they were the most comfortable things I have ever worn while cosplaying. I painted the red star on to the undershirt, and dyed a white bag blue for her backpack. It is not quite the right color blue, but it was as close as I could get! After sewing on the white stripe I was done with the costume!
I set up a shoot before Anime Detour so we could document our costumes. My friends Haruko costume turned out amazing. Shooting an anime costume was crazy different than shooting a sexpot comic character. Mamimi always acts spacey and wears minimal makeup so I did the same.
I will stop back in soon!
Updates and New Articles!
on 03.27.2008
Hey Guys!
It has been a while but I figured I would stop in for an update! Things are going good over at Game Informer, but getting used to working a 9-5 (actually a 10-7) takes some time! I am flying out to San Diego next week for THQ Gamers Day and Vegas a few weeks after that for Midway Gamers Day. I am UBER excited to go to my first official event and am honing my skills in the mean time.
I posted a pretty big feature yesterday and today that some of you might be interested in. I have wanted to write an article about accessible gaming and the changes developers can make to increase the number of people able to game for some time now. At GI I finally got the chance! I worked my butt off for two weeks, doing interviews, researching and gathering assets and just finished the last part today. The post is LONG but I think it is worth it to read. There is virtually a whole demographic of gamers out there that we are failing to include in the development process. Anyway, read it and let me know what you think! I also got to do the artwork for the feature on the main page which is fun I dont want my graphic design skills to get rusty!!
Last week I wrote a feature on why we replay games, which was a chance to try out something a bit more relaxed and fun...I had a good time with that one! I also *GASP* wrote an article on cosplay my first week...imagine that! LOL
I also did a few previews in the last few weeks, one for The World Ends With You and another for Mario Kart Wii. Both games were fun! Previews are defiantly a different style of writing for me, but I am enjoying learning how to best go about it. Anyway
On a personal level, I am going to a fun anime convention next weekend, one day as a female version of Mario and the second day as Mamimi from FLCL with a few friends. I am excited to cosplay because I feel like it has been forever! Another local comic convention is coming up as well and I am finishing my Elektra costume and my Zatanna costume EXCITED!
I just wanted to stop in and say hi and assure you all that I did not drop off the face of the planet. I am bummed I dont have as much free time anymore, but I still lurk and know what you guys are up to LOL
Let me know what you all thought about the Accessibility feature!
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My first week at Game Informer!
on 03.07.2008
I just thought I would share how my first official week in the working world went! Without any hesitation I can say that I love my new job already. This week was amazing. Stupid things like having a desk make me giggle. The first day I showed up to the Game Informer office with a box full of toys and a Superman lunchbox. I felt so cool LOL.
The office is amazing and the guys there are uber nice. I am the only girl on the floor so I have the bathroom to myself. There is a giant life-sized statue of Kain and Lynch trying to kill each other in the lobby that scares me whenever I leave at night. The halls are covered with giant posters of past Game Informer issues and I find myself wandering around to admire them.
On Monday I did all the standard stuff I needed to do in order to make myself an employee. I filled out paperwork, set up my email and my voicemail. On Tuesday I posted my first two news updates. One was about the new Wii channel available in Japan and the other was about the Undertow expansion pack being released for XBL. I started Wednesday the same way buy posting an update about the problems with the 360 port of Bully. In the middle of the day Wednesday the fun really began. Mid-day a Nintendo rep walked in and hand delivered a playable build of Mario Kart Wii for us to preview. The guys let me work on it and I spent the rest of the day playing and taking notes (you feel bad for me right?) Thursday and Friday were spent working on the preview, which officially went up
You have to check it out!
I am really excited because I get to go to my first development house next month. I am going down to Vegas for Midways Gamer Day ON MY OWN which is kinda cool! One of the other cool things from this week was getting my yellow photo taken for the website. Whenever I used to read Game Informer I would look at the editors yellow headshots and wish I was one of them. Once again, when I am really happy I look like a goof-ball in my photos so I look like a dork in it. You can check out my
here and make sure to look at my list of favorite websites!
Anyway, this is a rambling piece of poo post because I am REALLY tired right now. I just wanted to share with all of you! Let me know what you think of my Mario Kart preview post!
on 02.27.2008
I know I have not been around a ton lately due to the launch of GEN, but I the NARParty reminded me how much I love and miss the insanity that is Destructoid. It was awesome to see everyone and I am going to try my best to keep active on the site again! Until then, I have some fantastic news that I wanted to share with you all
As some of you may know, I just graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Graphic Design and a minor in journalism and mass communications. Over the last few years I realized that my passion for video games would not be satisfied if I did not work in the industry in one way or another. After graduating, I started the job hunt in Minnesota. Being that there are only two gaming related companies in Minnesota, my options were limited. However, I lucked out because my favorite video game magazine in the world (and one I have been reading for over 6 years) is based out of Minneapolis. Working for Game Informer has always been a dream of mine and guess what I START WORKING FOR GAME INFORMER ON MONDAY!
I went to the Game Career Center at GDC last week and had a few fantastic interviews for people looking for graphic and UI designers, but in the back of my head I wanted nothing more than to work for GI. I got a call today and I start on Monday. At the moment it looks like I will get to use both my major and minor by working for Game Informer Online out of the Minneapolis office! I will be doing some writing, a little bit of designing and other stuff as it comes up. I could not be more excited!
One uber nerdy thing is that I am stoked to have a desk. My brother got me a WTF? Coffee mug, Ninja Keyboard Dust Spray (complete with dust slaying nano-shurikens of doom) and a titanium spork as a graduation gift. I am excited to put them to use.
So yeah! That is what I am up to and I just wanted to share the great news with all of you! I cant wait to work with the amazing guys over at GI and show them what I got! Also, since I now officially have the job, I want to share some of the design work I did for GI as part of the application process. I was asked to redesign both an opinion piece and the Half-Life 2 spread that they originally ran in the magazine! Let me know what you think!
Opinion Design
Half Life Spread 1
Half Life Spread 2
Any Adam Hughes Fans? New Catwoman Cosplay!!
on 02.05.2008
Sorry, I am annoyingly giddy right now. I did a Catwoman shoot this weekend and just got the final image back! I LOVE artwork by Adam Hughes, and wanted to recreate the awesome cover he did of Catwoman getting her mugshot taken. I recreated the sign for the picture, and the photographer made the background. We even moved it so that I would be the EXACT height she is in the cover! The makeup artist did an awesome job, she used fake tears that made my face itch but look awesome on film. We even added the signature AH! but switched it out for the photographers initials! I know this is a random post, but I had to share with you guys!!!!
We also took a ton of other photos, but I dont have them back yet...Hope you like!
Random Fact: Did you know the numbers on the sign are the same numbers from the TV show Lost?


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Update: Despite our earlier predictions, it looks like Peter Pan Begins has enough pixie dust to fly on over to Sony Pictures. Apparently Sony is in negotiations to acquire the Channing Tatum as Peter Pan pic and Billy Ray better take what he can get. I doubt anyone is lining up to scoop up the project if this deal falls through.
Earlier: Screenwriter Billy Ray is having a tough time in the business lately. His script for Fox's big screen 24 adaptation was rejected by the studio, surprisingly, since action thrillers are his forte. And even though his script for The Hunger Games is ready to go into production, things aren't getting any better if this headline is any indication of what direction he's trying to go in. The Hollywood Reporter says that he's attached, along with producer Joe Roth and star Channing Tatum, to a pitch tentatively titled Peter Pan Begins that would serve as an origin story for the boy who never grows old. There aren't any plot details available, so here's what I think on first glance.
I'm well aware of the profit generating potential of classic literary properties (Roth's Alice In Wonderland set off a development/production frenzy that has resulted in scores of beloved children's stories getting adapted or remade) and I'm interested in some upcoming movies based on Snow White and Jack The Giant Killer, but this is so unnatural. Roth's involvement is the only element of the package that seems right; Ray is best known for films like Shattered Glass and Breach while Tatum is hardly an actor I can see playing any character from J.M. Barrie's magical world.
Unless these players have something wholly original in the works, I can't see Peter Pan Begins taking flight without crashing and burning (the title alone should be enough to keep the project grounded indefinitely).
Source: The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline


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Category: Emerging Research
New Paper from Shulamit Kahn Finds Gender Discrimination Irrelevant in Math-Intensive Fields
From Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Williams, W., (2014). Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 1-67.
History—and headlines—would lead one to believe that gender discrimination is at the root of women's underrepresentation in scientific academic careers, particularly in math-intensive fields. This was certainly true in years gone by, but what about today?
According to a new paper by Shulamit Kahn, associate professor of markets, public policy and law at Boston University School of Management, that's no longer the case. Outdated reports on the struggle of academic women still dominate the media, painting an inaccurate picture of current barriers to women's participation in academic science. The image of a male-centric academy persists, but references to gender discrimination are no longer a valid cause of women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields.
Kahn's paper, "Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape," co-authored by Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams of Cornell University and Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas, illustrates how times have changed: women in academic science are more likely to receive hiring offers than their male counterparts, are paid comparably to men in most cases, are tenured and promoted at the same rate, persisted in their jobs comparably, and had their grants funded and articles accepted as often. There are exceptions, of course—in certain fields like economics and biology, women are receiving less than their due—but Kahn's paper reveals that academic science today shows greater equality than ever before.
What proves to have a greater impact on women's full participation in mathematically intensive fields are "pre-college factors and the subsequent likelihood of majoring in these fields." The authors' extensive life-course analyses indicate that adolescent girls express less interest in careers like engineering and computer science than boys, and are less likely to declare college majors in math-intensive fields in high school. Although girls earn higher grades throughout schooling in virtually all subjects, they are less likely to take AP courses like Calculus BC and Physics. Kahn and her co-authors find, however, that if girls do take introductory science courses in college, they excel and are more likely than males to switch into science majors, especially if their instructors are women.
"We have to get girls to start thinking of themselves as mathematicians and physics-lovers early on, because they can have great academic careers in these fields," Kahn says. "Surprising to many, the women who major in fields like engineering and physical sciences are likely to enter and succeed in academia and are equally happy as men in their jobs."
Kahn's paper suggests that rather than misdirect attention toward historical barriers that no longer account for women's underrepresentation in academic science, future research should focus on the early-stage barriers that girls face, such as a lack of encouragement in high school to pursue math-based degrees. The conversation must change.
Despite the bleak scene that the media has created (one based on decades-old data), women today are thriving in academic science, according to Kahn and her co-authors. Gender bias in math-intensive fields? That's a thing of the past.
"Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape" appears this month in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
New Research from Joseph Restuccia Finds Hospital Leadership Important for Quality Improvement
From Restuccia, J., Mohr, D., Meterko, M., Stolzmann, K., Kaboli, P., (2014). The Association of Hospital Characteristics and Quality Improvement Activities in Inpatient Medical Services. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 5(29), 715-722.
All eyes have been on health care in the US as of late, with the quality of its services under much scrutiny. Deficiencies in patient care have been well reported and documented, but knowledge is scant about the degree to which hospitals are implementing systematic actions or practices to remedy the situation.
A new paper by Joseph Restuccia, Boston University School of Management professor of operations and technology management and dean's research fellow, investigates the extent to which hospitals are engaging in quality improvement activities (QIAs), or factors influencing the extent of QIAs—data-guided activities designed to bring about immediate improvement in health care delivery. Co-authored by David Mohr, Mark Meterko, Kelly Stolzmann, and Peter Kaboli, the paper, "The Association of Hospital Characteristics and Quality Improvement Activities in Inpatient Medical Services," appears this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The group specifically sought to identify the level of QIAs in the Veterans Administration's (VA) 124 acute care hospitals, as well as factors associated with widespread adoption of QIAs, particularly the use of hospitalists (physicians who specialize in the practice of hospital medicine), non-physician providers, and the extent of goal alignment between senior managers and the inpatient service on commitment to quality. They identified 27 QIAs and classify them in three separate domains:
- Prevention: activities to prevent adverse reactions among patients, such as contracting bedsores or other infections
- Information-gathering: activities to improve the hospital's knowledge base to improve quality, such as learning best practices within or outside industry, or conducting a management walkaround to raise awareness of the state of the institution
- Infrastructure: the basis on which you can build quality improvement programs and evidence-based practice guidelines; clinicians meet to discuss a topic of interest
Their study of the VA, the largest integrated health system in the US, resulted in three major findings. First, of the three domains, VA hospitals have devoted the most substantial effort to prevention-related QIAs to date. Second, where there is a close alignment of goals between senior managers and inpatient medical service leadership, there is a greater likelihood of QIA use. Finally, medical centers that employ hospitalists display the highest QIA-adoption rates across all three categories.
For senior leaders and clinicians, a key takeaway from the study is the importance of effectively communicating goals and aligning them throughout the organization, a significant factor in improving quality of care.
Read "The Association of Hospital Characteristics and Quality Improvement Activities in Inpatient Medical Services" here.
Kabrina Chang's Research on Social Business Featured in MIT Sloan Management Review
Engaging in social business means you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't
Should managers friend employees on Facebook or connect with them on LinkedIn? What are the legal implications of making these connections—or not? Boston University School of Management assistant professor of business law and ethics Kabrina Chang, along with Gerald C. Kane, associate professor of information systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, poses these questions in a piece for MIT Sloan Management Review, in which she and Kane outline several key legal considerations for managers. Social business is a rapidly emerging and expanding phenomenon, creating unique situations unforeseen by our current legal system, the pair writes. Is your company prepared?
Excerpts from MIT Sloan Management Review:
Damned if you don't.
One potential risk involves "negligent hiring." An injured third party could sue a company for hiring a dysfunctional employee if that dysfunction was evident on social media platforms and would have been readily apparent through a cursory search. In fact, the easier it is to search, the greater the legal burden to do so. Although there is no case law on this issue yet, it is a real business risk.
Damned if you do.
Even when managers legitimately access information on social media sites, they must be careful about how they act on that information. For example, managers open themselves up for discrimination lawsuits if they discover protected information about their employees. In TerVeer v Library of Congress (2012), an employee filed suit against his employer, claiming a manager harassed and ultimately fired him after surmising the employee was gay when the employee "liked" a pro-gay parenting page online (the case is still pending).
What's a manager to do?
One solution is to develop an official online policy for employees. Only 33% of businesses have such a policy, but they can provide valuable guidance for employees and managers regarding acceptable online behaviors. These policies must be crafted carefully, however, as the NLRB found that one such policy established by Costco was overly broad and placed unreasonable restrictions on employee behavior. And, as the survey pointed out, employees must be trained in how to follow the policy.
Hire a third-party vendor to assist with legal issues raised by social business. Companies such as Social Intelligence and Reppify search online information and provide reports on job applicants that are scrubbed of any protected information. Others, like Hearsay Social, assist with compliance issues raised by social business in regulated industries, such as finance and healthcare.
Read the full piece here.
Susan Fournier in HBR: Making Meaning out of Big Data
To Understand Consumer Data, Think Like an Anthropologist
Harvard Business Review featured a piece from Questrom Professor in Management Susan Fournier and Bob Rietveld, managing director and cofounder of Netherlands-based marketing analytics firm Oxyme, in which the two write that the meaning within consumer data lies with social media, such as pictures and comments on products, not with percentages. Focusing on social-media chatter can have a profound impact on a firm's consumer knowledge and, consequently, its profitability. Unfortunately, the piece notes, many people in business don't appreciate the value of that chatter. Rather than treat consumer comments as noise, use social media as a glimpse into the consumer's life and discover how he or she is really living. In other words, think like an anthropologist.
"Sure, sure," the numbers-oriented marketing executives may say. Social listening is great for "exploratory" research, but only as a precursor to "real" research that will determine the truth of what's being said online. What's needed, they'll tell you, is broad-based consumer research using representative samples and adequate sample sizes.
Querying a representative sample is great for testing a hypothesis or finding a statistical relationship between known concepts. But often, in marketing, you're dealing with multiple unknowns. Social listening doesn't presuppose anything. It has no constraints. Although qualitative information won't give you a simple equation or statistic that you can show the CEO, it can provide answers to questions you didn't even know you had.
And comments from a non-representative sample can be highly illuminating. For example, in tech markets, think of the users who regularly post to discussion groups focused on tech products. These knowledgeable netizens provide critical knowledge about product uptake and issues around quality or perception. The same can be said of fan groups and user groups in a variety of fields.
An important player in the electric-shaver category discovered this. Before the launch of a high-end shaver that was to be priced at more than $500 and was encased in brushed aluminum, an Australian retailer posted pictures and specifications of the product online. Almost immediately, consumers began commenting about the product's "plastic aesthetic" and "cheap look and feel." The manufacturer took prompt action, posting a new photo series highlighting the quality manufacturing process and construction, neutralizing the negative sentiment spreading online.
Successfully disseminating the results of social listening requires skill at seeing stories and developing insights from messy data. It also requires a penchant for simplicity.
Read the full piece here.
Georgios Zervas's Research on Fake Yelp Reviews Spotlighted in BU Today
Assistant professor speaks on reviewer dishonesty
BU Today spotlighted assistant professor of marketing Georgios Zervas regarding his research that found Yelp to be steeped in fake reviews (at least 16 percent). The piece notes that, following New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman's recent Operation Clean Turf initiative that uncovered manipulation in the reputation management industry, Zervas' study elicited a response from Yelp's vice president for communications and public affairs on the site's official blog. The study "confirms something we have long known: businesses that don't have a good reputation online will try to create one by submitting phony reviews," the response reads. Senior writer Susan Seligson spoke with Zervas about the study he coauthored, Yelp's impact on businesses, and how consumers can be more critical of online reviews.
BU Today: Did you discover anything particularly surprising in your study?
Zervas: One thing that was slightly surprising, not so much to me but to most people, is the proportion of suspected fake reviews that Yelp removes—approximately one quarter of all reviews submitted to Yelp are not published. That's about 10 million reviews.
What are some of the concerns your study raises?
The main concern is for firms like Yelp and TripAdvisor. Platforms that crowd-source reviews rely on the integrity of these reviews, and fraudulent reviews pose a major threat to their trustworthiness. Furthermore, consumers should be concerned that fake reviews are leading them to suboptimal choices, and businesses should be aware that some negative reviews might come from their competitors.
How much of an impact do sites like Yelp have on a business?
My coauthor Michael Luca did a great study on this and found that having an extra star on Yelp causes the revenue of a business to rise by 5 to 10 percent, so there's a direct connection between Yelp ratings and a business' bottom line.
How can consumers view these sites more critically?
I think there are many signals on Yelp that consumers can combine to make up their minds. The way I use Yelp is, I read individual reviews, trying to be aware not just of whether they're fake, but beyond that, whether they come from consumers who are like myself. There are plenty of biases in reviews besides their being fake or real. The other thing I look at is the number of reviews a business has. I have a lot more faith in a business with 3½ stars and 100 reviews than I do in one with 4 stars and just 3 or 4 reviews. That's common sense. Also, when available, you can use sites, like Expedia, that allow consumers to review a business only once it's confirmed that they are paying customers.
Read the full conversation here.
Chris Dellarocas on Why Linking to Your Competitors May Benefit Everyone
From Dellarocas, C., Katona, Z., & Rand, W. (2013). Media, aggregators and the link economy: Strategic hyperlink formation in content networks. Management Science, 59 (10), 2360-2379.
In today's link economy, whether a blogger paraphrases news articles or a fully automated aggregator harvests content from across the web, the pathways between content producers and audiences have become increasingly complex. So how should content producers respond to competition from aggregators and from each other?
How should content producers respond to competition from aggregators and from each other?
A new study from Boston University School of Management's Chrysanthos Dellarocas, professor of information systems and director of Boston University's Digital Learning Initiative, together with Zsolt Katona (University of California at Berkeley) and William Rand (University of Maryland), is the first to model the complex, interrelated implications of strategic hyperlinking and investment in content production. Their analysis, demonstrating scenarios in which such links can boost everyone's profits, thus yields important implications for professional content producers who have until now been reluctant to link to competitors.
When Linking Increases Profits
Addressing questions relevant to both firms and regulators, Dellarocas et al. identify gaps in existing network economics research around the impact of freely established links and the strategies that motivate their formation. For example, what are the effects of linking to competitors, and when should inbound links be refused?
Dellarocas and his co-authors show that although linking can result in low-quality sites free-riding on high-quality content, "in settings where there are evenly matched competitors, the option of placing links across sites may lead to equilibria where some or all sites are better off relative to a no-link setting."
Links between peer content sites can increase profits by reducing competition, overproduction, and duplication. The intuition is that, instead of each site expending resources to produce what is essentially duplicate content, everyone can benefit if one site specializes in producing really good content and other sites link to it. Sites that invest in high-quality content benefit from additional referred traffic, while those publishing the links become trusted hubs that attract visitors without having to pay the cost of content production. Different sites might specialize in producing content on different topics, one on politics and another on sports, for example. Thus, all sites produce the type of content they are best at and link to the rest. In this scenario, consumers benefit all-round.
The authors point out that the above scenario can sustain the market entry of inefficient players, allowing them to free-ride on the success of other content sites by linking to them, potentially denting the revenues of target sites. Still, no content site would benefit from unilaterally blocking such links, because then free-riding sites would simply link to their competitors.
The Impact of Aggregators
Acknowledging that aggregators 'steal' traffic from content sites, the authors also point out that, "by making it easier for consumers to access good content, aggregators increase the attractiveness of the entire content ecosystem and, thus, also attract traffic away from alternative media."
While aggregators may direct more traffic to high-quality sites, they also take away a slice of profits from content sites. This happens because some aggregator visitors check article headlines and snippets at the aggregator but never click through to the original articles. Furthermore, aggregators tend to increase competition between content sites. This may boost quality but reduce content producer profits.
See more about "Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks," at Management Science.
Karen Golden-Biddle Featured in Harvard Business Review
Golden-Biddle introduces idea of healthcare "micro-moves"
The Harvard Business Review featured a blog post from senior associate dean and professor of organizational behavior Karen Golden-Biddle, in which she writes that small changes to healthcare organizations can have a large impact. She calls these small changes "micro-moves" and believes that, contrary to the idea that the solution is "bringing in consultants, undertaking large-scale and highly visible action, and jolting the organization into change," micro-moves are the key to driving real transformation. Through her research, she finds that less visible actions and interactions avoid derailing the organization by tapping collective energy and building enthusiasm.
Excerpts from the Harvard Business Review:
One such collection of micro-moves is "discovery." These actions encourage people to notice their taken-for-granted assumptions regarding how things are done, reconsider them, and create alternatives. For example, a team of managers and clinical leaders at a medium-size health system, Thedacare, in Appleton Wisconsin, gained invaluable insights about their own care delivery process simply by walking the "care path" with patients.
Early in her tenure, Kathryn Correia, an executive in this health system at the time, brought together managers and clinical leaders to figure out how they might change inpatient care delivery to improve quality and safety. As they talked they soon realized that they had very little understanding of how patients moved through the system. Although all participants knew how patients navigated within their own areas of treatment and their units, they had little idea of how patients travelled between admission and discharge, or what patients experienced on the journey. So, the group decided to walk the actual care path themselves, first as if they were patients, and then alongside the patients through real-time care delivery.
In a second session, the group explored how they could best learn about patients' subjective experience as they navigated the system. They generated open-ended questions to ask patients when they accompanied them that would illuminate their experiences – questions such as, "Would you share with me what being a patient here is like?" "What was it like just now when (describe situation concretely) happened?" "Could you describe some other experiences you have had here as a patient?" And they decided to leave behind their medical frocks and suit jackets in order to slip out of their "expert" roles. These gestures – leaving their "uniforms" behind, walking the care path, engaging patients with open-ended questions – are examples of micro-moves for discovery.
Read the full blog post here.
Wall Street Journal, BBC Spotlight Georgios Zervas's Research on Fake Online Reviews
Media references SMG assistant professor's paper "Fake it Till You Make it"
The Wall Street Journal has repeatedly spotlighted the research of Georgios Zervas, Boston University School of Management assistant professor of marketing, on the consequences of fake online reviews. Both the Journal's Corporate Intelligence blog and its "Morning Risk Report," which provides insights and news on governance, risk, and compliance, featured recent posts on the writing and solicitation of fake online reviews.
One post, "Fake Reviews Raise Reputation Stakes," was prompted by New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman's targeting fraudulent online reviewers this week under his new initiative "Operation Clean Turf," a yearlong undercover investigation into the reputation management industry, the manipulation of consumer-review websites, and the practice of astroturfing.
Zervas notes that the consequences for writing and soliciting fake reviews are very low and that, for anyone with a computer, crafting a fake review is simple. He is quoted saying:
"The New York attorney general is trying to increase the cost of being uncovered as a fraudster. I think it's a small first step in the right direction."
Zervas, who completed his PhD in 2011 in computer science at Boston University, also explains that the problem of fake reviews extends beyond New York's borders. His paper "Fake it Till You Make it" was co-authored with Harvard Business School assistant professor Michael Luca.
Focusing on the issue of fake restaurant reports, BBC News, in the article "Yelp admits a quarter of submitted reviews could be fake," writes,
Michael Luca of Harvard Business School and Georgios Zervas of Boston University studied the incidence of fraudulent reviews of Boston restaurants posted to Yelp, including those that had been filtered out.
After analysing more than 310,000 reviews of 3,625 restaurants, they found that negative fake reviews occurred in response to increased competition, while positive fake reviews were used to strengthen a weak reputation or to counteract unflattering reviews.
Read more from from BBC News or the Journal's "Morning Risk Report", Corporate Intelligence blog, or MarketWatch site.
New Research from Yanbo Wang on Motivations for Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Bonding Vs. Defrauding
From Siegel, J.I., & Wang, Y. (2012). "Cross-border reverse mergers: Causes and consequences." Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 12-089.
A new study by strategy scholars Jordan I. Siegel of Harvard Business School and Yanbo Wang of Boston University School of Management looks at the intersection of cross-border reverse mergers, corporate governance outcomes, and the motivational role of bonding vs. defrauding.
Firms typically pursue reverse mergers (where a non-U.S. company seeks to adopt U.S. state- or Federal-level corporate law by targeting a U.S. shell company bound by U.S. state- or Federal-level corporate law and merging with it) to gain a higher or lower level of legal oversight.
In their paper "Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences," Siegel and Wang note that the literature on bonding has paid scant attention to reverse mergers involving state-level corporate law. They aim to correct this, in part because studying these mergers enables a comparison between firms who adopt only state-level corporate law and those renting both state-level corporate law and U.S. federal securities law.
Debunking assumptions about Chinese & Canadian firms in Nevada & Delaware
The researchers compile a study-set using statistics on cross-border reverse mergers into the U.S.; financial data from Capital IQ, Thomson ONE, Worldscope, and Osiris; SEC filing restatements and auditor changes from Audit Analytics; and data on formal enforcement outcomes. They then apply this data to widely held assumptions about cross-border reverse mergers. They explore such questions as:
- Is Delaware vs. Nevada a good proxy for a firm's decision to bond itself vs. to defraud investors?
- Does the choice of a Big Four auditor prove far more important in determining the quality of corporate governance than the choice of U.S. state?
- Do Chinese reverse merger firms show more frequent negative corporate governance outcomes that Canadian reverse merger firms (the two main sources of cross-border reverse mergers into the U.S.)?
They find that:
- Later cohorts—companies who adopted the strategy of reverse mergers later, after the first wave of reverse-merger pioneers—tend to display more problematic accounting than the early adopters.
- Firms with Big Four auditors tend to display less problematic accounting.
- Chinese firms have no greater tendency to display problematic accounting than any other firms in the data set.
- The location of Nevada for the reverse-merger incorporation makes no difference in the likelihood of a firm displaying problematic accounting.
Are cross-border reverse mergers more corrupt than domestic ones?
The study also addresses whether the incidence of bad governance among the cross-border reverse merger sample proves different from among domestic reverse merger firms or American OTC firms in general. Among its findings:
- The cross-border reverse mergers had lower incidences of trading suspensions than U.S. OTCs for nearly all of the sample time period.
- The cross-border reverse mergers had lower incidences of SEC enforcement than either the domestic reverse mergers or the American OTC firms for nearly the entire sample time period.
- The cross-border reverse mergers had an incidence rate of private litigation that was mostly the same or lower than the two comparison groups for most of the sample time period.
Download a copy of the paper "Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences."
New Research from Erin Reid Explores the Boundaries of Work and Non-Work Identities
From Ramarajan, L., & Reid, E. (Forthcoming). Shattering the myth of separate worlds: Negotiating non-work identities at work. Academy of Management Review.
How much of our self is defined by our work?
Now, with fundamental changes in the social organization of work, this fairly simple question has become surprisingly difficult to answer. Where, for example, do small business owners' professional and personal identities begin and end? What about those of doctors, oil rig workers, or priests?
A new paper by Erin Reid, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University School of Management, and Harvard Business School's Lakshmi Ramarajan, brings the importance of these questions to light. Their article, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review, departs from a decades-old "myth of separate worlds" about the personal and professional, as well as from the limits of past management research on identity, which has primarily focused on at-work identity.
Based on an extensive review of research on management, gender and work, work-family, and sociology, Reid and Ramarajan develop a new theory of how people manage their non-work identities in the workplace, arguing that exploring the former has become increasingly important to understanding productivity, employee engagement and well-being, and power dynamics in the latter.
A New Focus on the Importance of External Identities
Attributing the blurring of work and non-work life domains to the combined effects of declining job stability, rising workplace diversity, and the growth of communication technologies, the authors argue that many workers—whether an Indian call center employee posing as an American, a priest juggling a parish and a same-sex relationship, or a female engineer modifying her gender expression to increase perceived competence—must renegotiate the boundaries of their identities.
Due to a combination of work and life pressures and personal preferences, workers develop different strategies for negotiating gender, family, nationality, and other "non-work" selves in the workplace, Reid and Ramarajan find. Varying degrees of alignment between one's preferences and the pressures they face both affects how workers manage their non-work identities and impacts their experience of the power relationship between themselves and their organization or occupation. "The greater the alignment," the authors write, "the more likely people are to remain unaware of this power relationship or experience it as enabling." Conversely, "the greater the misalignment, the more likely people are to acutely experience the power relationship as a constraint."
Different Strategies, Different Selves
Through a literature review of 117 articles and books published between 1990-2012 or cited in research from this period, and using direct commentary from workers about their efforts to negotiate their non-work identities at work, Reid and Ramarajan create a matrix encompassing various pressures, preferences, strategies, and outcomes.
They identify pressures and preferences as either:
- Inclusionary, wherein people are encouraged to merge their work and non-work identities, or do so by choice; or
- Exclusionary, wherein workers are encouraged to keep their identities separate, or do so by choice.
The authors then map different worker strategies within varying combinations of pressures, preferences, and outcomes:
- Assenting strategies (such as luxury resort workers' preferences for non-committal friendships and romantic relationships, due to a career requirement for frequent relocation), which are likely to improve workers' well-being in the short term. However, in the long term, well-being may decline.
- Compliance strategies (exhibited, for instance, by a lesbian female priest who chooses to hide her sexual identity), which may appear positive for the organization, but can negatively impact well-being and may in the long run harm productivity and efficiency.
- Resistance strategies (found among Israeli Foreign Service employees who responded to employer pressure to curtail boisterous conduct by playing loud music), which may reduce commitment and be problematic in the short term, though offer potential for long-term positive change.
- Inversion strategies (whereby people neither comply with nor resist pressure but instead try to reinterpret the pressure to align with their personal preferences), which tends to offer positive short-term consequences with more ambiguous long-term effects.
Offering their map of findings as a foundation for future study, Reid and Ramarajan urge continued research on the symbiosis of work and non-work identities, as well as its critical consequences for organizations.
Read more about "Shattering the myth of separate worlds: Negotiating non-work identities at work."


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Brain-removal tool found in ancient mummy's skull
12/19/2012 9:15am
Researchers have discovered an ancient brain-removal tool left in the skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy.
'They're true heroes': father says after neighbors save son from fire
12/19/2012 10:02am
The father of a disabled man who was pulled from his burning home said this Christmas will be unlike any other, thanks to the quick thinking of neighbors and teenage son.
1985 'Reindeer Rule' saves city's nativity display
12/19/2012 10:59am
A city council in Iowa decided its nativity scene on the town square will stay, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling from years ago called the Reindeer Rule.
Facebook rejects German demand to allow fake names
12/19/2012 12:04pm
Facebook will fight a German privacy watchdog's demand to allow users to register with fake names, insisting Tuesday that its current practice fully complies with the law.
Senator introduces bill to study impact of violent video games and children
12/19/2012 1:52pm
Following the tragic shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed, a U.S. senator is looking to study the impact of violent video games and the media on children.
'Modern Seinfeld' Twitter account reinvents '90s sitcom for 2012
12/19/2012 2:29pm
If Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George were still on-air today, what would
"Seinfeld" be like?
Scientists: Are we living in a computer simulation?
12/19/2012 3:41pm
It sounds like a scene out of "The Matrix": sentient machines create an alternate reality to subdue the human population. But researchers say it is a possibility worth considering.
Wednesday's Child: Andrew
12/19/2012 6:44pm
Not many young men would rather spend their time in the kitchen than playing video games, but this week's Wednesday's Child is an aspiring chef, and he's sure to capture your heart.
How to help kids balance life and electronic devices
12/19/2012 7:29pm
Since they were babies, my toddlers have been able to use tablets and smartphones. So many children are just like them, growing up in a digital world. This MOMentity article offers tips for teaching kids how to appropriately balance life.
Fighting with my spouse at Christmas
12/19/2012 8:33pm
This week in LIFEadvice: Coach Kim gives some advice for healing a fight before Christmas. Forgiveness and love are the answer, but they can be hard to do when you're feeling mistreated. Coach Kim gives some suggestions for making forgiveness easier.
Child poverty over 30% in some Utah counties, though state rate is low
12/19/2012 11:59pm
Utah's poverty rate now sits at 13.5 percent, but the 2011 rate for children is much higher, at 16.3 percent, up from 2010.
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Website of the Month: myStockOptions.com
By Susan B. Anders
MyStockOptions.com (MSO) is a commercial organization, and as such, most of the information on the website is available only to paid subscribers. However, a wide selection of free materials can be accessed after registration, including selected articles and FAQs, a glossary, the myRecords portfolio tracker, a "quick-take" calculator for stock options, a discussion forum, "ask the experts," and an e-mail newsletter.
The home and main pages are organized with a top banner containing three menu bars. The top menu bar focuses on popular features: tax center, global tax, newsletter, glossary, discussion, as well as about us and home, and buttons to sign in and register. The second menu bar has buttons for the user-specific tools of myRecords, myTools, myLibrary, and myClients. The third menu bar covers all of the topical areas on the website: basics, NQSOs, ISOs, ESPPs, restricted stock, SARs, financial planning, job events, life events, M&A, SEC law, and pre-IPO.
At the center of the homepage, users may choose one of three types of accounts: individuals, corporate, and financial and wealth advisors. A link to new and updated content is a neat feature, as is a similar resource for the newsletter. A few of the recent top articles are displayed. Throughout the website, features available only to subscribers have an MSO+ icon. Other materials are free, but require registration.
The home and main pages feature left-side indices that change with context. On the homepage, the index prompts a user to take a detailed tour of the website's content. Menu buttons for the tools are displayed on the right side of the homepage, including myRecords and several calculators. The homepage highlights featured FAQs, recent discussions, and "ask the expert" Q&A. There are also links to free quizzes that offer interactive multiple-choice questions, including connections to pertinent articles and FAQs.
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The articles, FAQs, and tax center are organized under the topics presented on the third horizontal menu bar. The left side of each topical page serves as an index for that section. The center of each page provides a brief introduction to the topic, a list of articles with short descriptions, and a list of FAQs. The right side of the page links featured FAQs on that subject.
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Two features allow users to pose questions, as well as to read questions and answers from other users. "Ask the experts" provides an e-mail link for users to send their questions to MSO staff. Users can also participate in the discussion forums, contributing on existing topics or creating new discussion threads.
MyRecords is found on the main menu bar and the right-side tools index on the homepage. It allows users to keep track of stock grant information in a spreadsheet format, create graphs, export data, and print. The "quick-take" calculator can import data from myRecords in order to model increases and decreases in stock prices and tax rates. The glossary can be accessed from the top main menu bar or links throughout the website.
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Is there any friggin directions or tutorials for beer smith? I have no idea what the F I'm doing on it. I would love to use it efficently within the trial period, thus making me want to buy it however, if i cant use it, I wont purchase it.
The website has a forum. I learned mostly by trial and error, you will pick it up in a day or two. Any specific questions?
when you open beersmith there is a help on the top use that and there will be a tutorial on how to make your first recipe
mostly trying to figure out strike water / sparge water quantities and temps. I want to know if i put in my grain bill what i will need to get a higer efficiency. Thanks!
In the support section there is a downloadable pdf of the "manual".
Before you can expect any accuracy, you need to enter your brewery specs. Then play with it. Spend some time on this forum and on the Beersmith forum. It took me most of the trial period to get the hang of it and I'm still learning more about it. Its well worth the $20. Don't get discouraged.


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Just today 2 firearms instructors one from Connecticut one from Illinois contacted me about a scam going on targeting you the firearms Trainers. Basically, there asking if they can get their daughter to get training from you.
She lives in Sinapore, apparently they're getting email addresses from websites.
Basically heres the senario I've gotton 2 times now.
My daughter is coming from sinagapore seeking out training for pistols. Money is no option. We want private lessons, sending a false check, similiar to the nigerian scam.
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CBR TV @ C2E2: Quesada on "Spider-Men," "Marvel Universe," "The Avengers" & More
Marvel Comics' Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada spoke with CBR News from the floor of C2E2, discussing the inception of the Marvel Universe/Ultimate Universe crossover "Spider-Men" and his appearances on Disney XD.
C2E2: Marvel's "Cup O' Joe" Panel
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada brings his signature Q&A panel to Chicago as he teams with Axel Alonso, Jason Aaron and Leph Loeb to announce new series for "Hawkeye" and "Powers" and a return for Sabertooth.
C2E2: Marvel's "Avengers Vs. X-Men" Panel
Marvel Comics major summer event gets a Chicago spotlight as Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, CCO Joe Quesada and writers Jason Aaron and Rick Remender dish on "Avengers Vs. X-Men" and the return of Captain Mar-Vell.
C2E2: Marvel House of Ideas
Marvel begins its C2E2 schedule with the House of Ideas panel, discussing all the latest news on the Marvel Comics App, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited and more.
COMMENTARY TRACK: Quesada, Waid & Lowe on "AvX #1 Infinite"
The "Avengers Vs. X-Men" tie-in that launched Marvel's Infinite Comics digital platform goes under the spotlight as Joe Quesada, Mark Waid and Nick Lowe unpack the storytelling techniques of Nova's crash landing.
Casey & Rouleau Bring Action To "Ultimate Spider-Man"
In advance of Saturday's premiere of Marvel Studios latest animation project, Man of Action members Joe Casey and Duncan Roleau go inside "Ultimate Spider-Man" revealing the unique humor and big stories behind the series.
Marvel Debuts Extended "Ultimate Spider-Man" Sizzle Reel
With "Ultimate Spider-Man" debuting this weekend on Disney XD, Marvel has released a new, extended sizzle reel featuring new scenes from the series along with interviews with the cast and crew.
Stan Lee Swings Onto "Ultimate Spider-Man"
"Ultimate Spider-Man" Co-Executive Producer and Marvel icon Stan Lee speaks about the new animated series, organic vs. technological web shooters and the enduring appeal of the wall-crawling hero.
Loeb, Quesada & Levine On "Ultimate Spider-Man" Swinging Onto Disney XD
Jeph Loeb, Joe Quesada and Disney XD Vice President David Levine speak about XD's Marvel Universe block and the animated "Ultimate Spider-Man" show.
Marvel @ SXSW: Waid Takes Nova To Infinite Comics
The writer whose passion for digital comics has been well known brings his tablet-first findings to Marvel as Mark Waid explains how his Nova "AvX" tie-in story for Marvel Infinite Comics is just a first step.
Marvel @ SXSW: Quesada Opens The All-Digital "Infinite Comics"
Marvel CCO Joe Quesada talks the launch of Marvel Infinite Comics, a new run of stories created specifically for tablet devices tying into "Avengers Vs. X-Men."
PRESS RELEASE: Marvel Entertainment Reveals Plans for C2E2 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel's Buckley & Quesada Speak On Gary Friedrich & Ghost Rider
After news that "Ghost Rider" writer Gary Friedrich will owe Marvel Comics $17,000 stirred the comics community, Dan Buckley and Joe Quesada explain the publisher's point of view in regard to the case and convention sketches.
PRESS RELEASE: Disney XD to Launch "Marvel Universe" Programming Block
REVIEW: "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1
Doug Zawisza gives Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness' "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1 4 stars, calling the first chapter of Marvel's "Avengers Vs. X-Men" prelude series "big, loud and most importantly, fun."
Marvel Releases "Avengers: X-Sanction" Variant Covers
Marvel Comics has released several variant covers for "Avengers: X-Sanction," featuring art by Joe Quesada, Leinil Francis Yu, Steve Skroce, Stephen Platt, Ian Churchill and series artist Ed McGuinness.
Pipeline - 12/6/2011
Tis the season, so Augie's looking back at "The Last Christmas" and some Santa Claus trading cards. Also this week, one company stops short of innovating digital comics while one creator takes a stance against digital.
CBR TV @ NYCC: Joe Quesada on Digital Comics, DC Comics' New 52 First Wave & More
Marvel Entertainment COO Joe Quesada speaks with CBR TV about a possible return to comics in 2012, his thoughts on the first month of DC Comics' New 52, his first digital comic from 1998 and more.
NYCC: Marvel's Cup O' Joe
A jam-packed version of Joe Quesada's panel saw plenty of Marvel news including a new movie-esque Avengers series from Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley, Jeph Loeb's resurrection of Sabertooth, "Dexter" comics and more!
Quesada Covers Loeb & McGuiness' "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1
Marvel Entertainment CCO Joe Quesada returns to the drawing table to create a variant cover for "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness upcoming series re-introducing Cable to the Marvel Universe.
Quesada Shares a Cup 'O Joe at D23
Marvel Comics CCO Joe Quesada brought Cup 'O Joe to the Disney D23 Expo to discuss Disney's acquisition of Marvel, show exclusive footage from "Ultimate Spider-Man" and give the history of Marvel from 1939 to 2011.
PRESS RELEASE: Marvel Makes Inaugural Appearance at Disney D23 Expo
Marvel Releases Third "Four" Teaser
Today's teaser for the November-hitting Fantastic Four-themed project helmed by current "FF" writer Jonathan Hickman features a Joe Quesada-drawn shot of the original FF.
The Birth of Miles Morales
With a new face under Ultimate Spider-Man's mask, Marvel CCO Joe Quesada returns with his take on the character's creation and the overpowering public reaction, plus an exclusive look at the Ultimate Spidey cartoon!
CBR TV @ CCI: Quesada on Marvel Movies, DC Comics Relaunch & More
Marvel Entertainment CCO Joe Quesada spoke with CBR TV about Marvel's movies, past, present and future, DC Comics' relaunch, Marc Silvestri on "Hulk" and more.
Marvel Teases "Epic" Loeb-McGuinness Reunion
Marvel Comics has released an especially enigmatic teaser this morning promoting a new project from the "Hulk" and "Superman/Batman" team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness to be announced at CCI.
PRESS RELEASE: Marvel Announces Creator Lineup for 2011 New York Comic Con
Quesada Covers "Death of Spider-Man" Finale
Marvel Comics has released Joe Quesada's "Not A Dry Eye In The House" variant cover for the June-shipping final chapter of the current "Death of Spider-Man" storyline running through the Ultimate Universe.
Cup o' Video w/ Joe Quesada: Spider-Man 2099, "30 Rock" & more
Joe Quesada returns for another Cup O'Video to answer fan questions on the fate of the Ultimate Universe post-Death of Spider-Man to the possibility of new Spider-Man 2099 comics. Plus, a post-credits blooper and more!
WC11: Breaking into Comics the Marvel Way
Marvel returned to WonderCon with a Friday panel featuring Joe Quesada, Axel Alonso, Jason Aaron and more, telling stories and offering advice for aspiring creators to break into the business.
WC11: Cup O' Joe
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada returns to the stage for a round of questions, answers and announcements in his classic Cup O' Joe panel at WonderCon, and CBR News has word of the next "Secret Avengers" team and more.
Call for Questions: Cup O' Video
Have a query for Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada? Then head on over to the CBR Message Boards for a chance to have him reveal the secrets of comics, TV and movies on video at WonderCon.
CUP O' VIDEO: Marvel Media At C2E2
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada is back for a video Q&A based on your questions, covering the process behind animation, the sales of "Spider-Man" and tweaking the costumes of Marvel's big franchises.
C2E2: Cup O' Joe
Marvel's main event Saturday evening at C2E2 was the Cup O' Joe panel, where Joe Quesada, Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, and friends announced creative teams for "Daredevil" and "Punisher," answered fan questions, and more.
PREVIEW: "Fear Itself: Book of the Skull"
Marvel Comics has released a preview of "Fear Itself: Book of the Skull" #1by Ed Brubaker and Scot Eaton. The series, featuring covers by Marko Djurdjevic and Joe Quesada, debuts tomorrow.
Quesada Illustrates "Fantastic Four" #587 Second Print Cover
Marvel Comics has released the Joe Quesada illustrated second printing variant cover for the sold out "Fantastic Four" #587, written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Steve Epting.
Mainstream Media Leaks "Fantastic Four" Death
In a move that's become routine for major shockers in the Marvel Comics Universe, news organizations across the country have started revealing the death at the heart of this week's "Fantastic Four" #587. SPOILERS ahead!
The E-i-C Exit Interview, Part 2
Joe Quesada looks at his legacy as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel, unveiling the peaks and valleys of his ten years at the top of Marvel Editorial and what he views as his biggest contributions to comics and much more!
The E-i-C Exit Interview, Part 1
Joe Quesada takes an honest look at the moments and methods that made up his E-i-C reign, how the ten years he spent leading Marvel may be his greatest creative legacy, why Alonso was the man to take on his job, his future and more.
Brevoort Promoted To Marvel SVP Publishing
Hand-in-hand with the news that his "T&A" cohort has been made Marvel Editor-in-Chief, longtime staffer Tom Brevoort has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Publishing for the company.
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