 for the NBA Draft? Who is Idan Ravin and why does Carmelo Anthony respect him so much?
Ballard even drag-races Shaquille O’Neal after leaving the Suns locker room. After reading “The Art of a Beautiful Game,” you’re challenged to watch an NBA play closely and this book will definitely equip and reward you.
Mix It UpBaltimore Sun — Jan. 30 — Interim Dean and CHIDS co-director Ritu Agarwal and Professor/CHIDS co-director Gordon Gao weigh in on coronavirus messaging in ‘First person tested in Maryland for coronavirus is negative’: Generally during a health crisis people should look to a trusted source such as the CDC and not “random social media posts,” cautioned [Agarwal] “In a situation that is evolving as quickly as the one we are facing now, there is a danger here, a lot of misinformation lurking around,” she said. “Look to the one trusted and credible source of information.” [Gao], a professor and co-director of the center, said people should be “data-savvy” and get context. Numbers can be scary and even deceiving alone, he said.
Science Daily — Jan. 30 — The paper “Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability,” co-authored by Department of Decision, Operations and Information Systems professor Ashish Kabra is overviewed.
Baltimore Sun — Jan. 29 — Clinical Professor of Marketing Hank Boyd comments in “Ravens QB Lamar Jackson isn’t signed to a big sports brand. That’s likely to change soon”: Brands courting Jackson might want to explore partnerships that incorporate his existing clothing lines, said [Boyd]. “With social media, we’re all crafting our own brands. It’s a whole different age," Boyd said. …Also at Yahoo Sports, Sacramento Bee, ArcaMax.
Business Insider/Markets Insider — Jan. 23 — Clinical Professor of Finance David Kass and Assistant Dean for Part-Time MBA and Online Programs Paulo Prochno separately describe the effectiveness of General Electric CEO Larry Culp in "Is JPMorgan right to call the GE stock price wrong?” Originally published by InvestorPlace.
Issues in Science and Technology — Jan. 22 — Management and entrepreneurship professors Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch co-author a “Combatting Tech Hype” essay in the magazine’s forum section.
Fortune — Jan. 17 — ‘NBC's Peacock free streaming a real threat to Hulu’ is fed by marketing professor P.K. Kannan: “Hulu is an outlet for content makers who don't have their own streaming service. But now that all these content producers have their own streaming service, why do they need a middleman?” says [Kannan]. "In the streaming wars, the people who produce content have the power." Also at Daily Gaming News.
European Business Review — Jan. 14 — “Start-ups: The Founding Team Is a Real Magic Bullet” overviews research newly published in Academy of Management Annals and co-authored by Rajshree Agarwal (Rudolph P. Lamone Chair and Professor in Entrepreneurship), Brent Goldfarb (Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship) and Gilad Chen (Robert H. Smith Chair in Organization Behavior).
Washington Examiner — Jan. 14 — Management professor Evan Starr is quoted and his research cited in “FTC weighs restricting noncompete agreements to boost worker job prospects”: A study [by Starr] on Oregon's hourly paid workers after the state banned noncompetes suggested that such a policy would provide a significant pay raise to low-income earners. "The average worker would be better off if they banned noncompetes. This is widely agreed upon by everyone, on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans,” said [Starr]. Starr was invited to speak at the FTC last week during its "Noncompetes in the Workplace" event.
Phys.org — Jan. 13 — “How retailers can make more money in online auctions” summarizes management professor Wedad Elmharaby’s “Managing Market Thickness in Online B2B Markets” paper in Management Science. Coverage also at Eurasia Review.
Wall Street Journal — Jan. 8 — A “Realtime Economics” roundup (scroll down) cites management professor Evan Starr’s presentation of his paper “Low Wage Workers and the Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete” at a conference hosted by the American Economic Association.
Yahoo Finance — Jan. 2 — Clinical Professor of Finance David Kass weighs in, via The First Trade, regarding financial market implications of ‘Carlos Ghosn’s bizarre escape from Japan’: But at a bare minimum, Ghosn’s odd story has probably kept alive an ongoing discussion in countless board rooms about doing business in Japan. “There is a concern that business leaders from other countries who are executives in Japan would be treated very differently than Japanese CEOs or executives. It looks like there could be a double standard... and this could discourage investment by those locating to Japan,” [Kass said].
The plowers plowed upon my back - It is possible that this mode of expression may signify that the people, during their captivity, were cruelly used by scourging, etc.; or it may be a sort of proverbial mode of expression for the most cruel usage. There really appears here to be a reference to a yoke, as if they had actually been yoked to the plouph, or to some kind of carriages, and been obliged to draw like beasts of burden. In this way St. Jerome understood the passage; and this has the more likelihood, as in the next verse God is represented as cutting them off from these draughts.

In the Nordic countries we have the opportunity to experience the midnight sun. This natural phenomenon will make the sun to be visible 24 hours a day if you are above the Arctic circle, given fair weather.
picture: Midnight Sun from the Cable Car in Tromsø on June 30 2009.
Internal Response Over External Forces
The world as we know it today has no concern for our emotions or ego. This is apparent
when surfing through social media, a lot of people constantly drag each other down for
the most cynical of reasons.
Every effort to impress or remain the most preferred will prove to be futile, as people are
only concerned about others as long as they give them something to talk about. And
sooner or later we find out that we are only as good as what we offer, with the world as
the sole judge. If we choose to succumb to expanding our emotions whenever external
forces try to influence our actions, then we stand to lose our control over our results.
Once we allow external forces to regulate our feelings, we risk impacting a positive
change in favour of overall outcome.
Rather than letting these external forces control us, we must realize that we have the
power to master our emotions. Although we may not be able to control every event that
happens in our world, we get to decide how we respond to our experiences. Whatever
the nature of the chaos or adversity we can refuse to allow it to control our life. We need
to let go of what we can’t control and instead put all our focus into what we can make
happen. If we take our focus away from unfavourable scenarios and redirect our
emotions to practice what we love or gratitude, we will thrive even in our most turbulent
of times. This can be achieved by consciously deciding to take responsibility for our
emotions, and choosing to be at cause rather than at effect.
Being at Cause demand that we take responsibility for creating what we want in our life.
To be at Cause we must accept that we have a choice about who we are, what we do
and how we react to other people, their emotions and responses to us and to the events
around us. At Effect, we’re likely to blame other people or situations for how we feel
about life.
On the Effects side of the equation of life, we are likely to perceive ourselves as
disenfranchised and almost powerless. We become victims of self-imposed
circumstances and we unconsciously operate out of fear. We’re unable to see that we
have a responsibility to shoulder for why we’re where we’re at and what we have or
don’t have in life. We often erroneously believing that what we achieve or do not
achieve is purely down to some outside force (parents, partner, government, society or
something else).
We fail to grasp that we can in fact take total control of where our life is at and where it’s
heading. We all have the needed resources and the power to step out of the current
model of the world we live in and to begin to create our world the way that we want it.
Innocent Usar
Founder, InnocentMINDS
Creator, The Epic Outcomes MatrixThe National Peace Council says it will not be the mouthpiece of any political party in the country as the nation heads 2020 general election.
This comes after the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) labelled the Council ‘hypocritical’ for not openly condemning the ruling New Patriotic Party for what they say “are acts of violence at registration centres”.
“According to the NDC, “anytime there are issues, instead of them condemning the NPP for act of violence because of how they behave they end up adding the NDC to it, we will not accept it and we