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Car Talk Tonight
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2012
Ok, so this is not really about the NPR show, although Click and Clack did speak at my MIT graduation. Instead I am talking tonight at a BMW event which is about introducing their own venture activities as well as [...] Read more
Petraeus Lessons
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2012
Let’s get the unimportant things out of the way right away. Several people had affairs. That to me has zero news value. And for all the “Why do powerful men cheat more?” headline writers, I suggest taking my Bayesian probability [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Implementations)
Albert Wenger – Nov 13, 2012
Last week in Tech Tuesday, we continued our introduction to algorithms by looking at a first implementation. As a reminder we are trying to find out whether a sequence of integers contains a number that is repeated four times in [...] Read more
Information Technology and Hybrid Organizations (Thesis)
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2012
This is the second post in my little project of self publishing my PhD Thesis. Last week I introduced an econometric analysis of the impact of Information Technology (IT) firm size. This time it is a more theoretical paper that [...] Read more
Peer Science and Social Media
Albert Wenger – Nov 9, 2012
One accusation that has been leveled at social media and those who invest in it is that it won’t help us solve the tough problems because those require science (Steve Blank provides one example of this view and at least [...] Read more
Software is Eating Apple
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2012
It’s only two months ago that I posted that these are Apple’s glory years and that it is likely too soon to bet against Apple’s stock. As it turns out I was wrong. When I wrote, the stock was at [...] Read more
An Important Second Term
Albert Wenger – Nov 7, 2012
I was very happy to see President Obama win a second term last night. For starters it was gratifying that despite all sorts of last minute challenges this was not a close vote with hanging chads and damage to the [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Nov 6, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday was now two weeks ago due to Hurricane Sandy. As a quick refresher, we looked at where the word algorithm comes from, saw that an algorithm is similar to a recipe and gave an example of a [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Nov 5, 2012
Last weekend I wrote a post about what is happening with employment. The gist was that employment in the US in agriculture and manufacturing has collapsed as a percentage of total employment and declined even in absolute terms mostly as [...] Read more