Uber + Puppy Bowl = Heaven
Looks like Uber is at it again. Yesterday they gave the gift of playing with puppies to people in 10 cities throughout the US. Yes, they technically gave the gift of paying $30 for 15 minutes …
The Pricing Battle Continues: Walmart vs. Amazon
Apologies for not getting this article to you before the holidays – maybe it would have saved some of you a few bucks. Better late than never, right? Anyway, Walmart instituted an official policy to …
Startup Advisor Database
I’ve been interested in start-ups for a while now. So when my friend forwarded me an email several days ago with a link to an application for becoming an advisor for the Harvard Innovation Lab I …
A beacon of hope – guest blog by Kyle Jones
Four ways beacons will transform supply chain management by 2020 Bluetooth Low Energy technology, commonly called Beacons or BLE, is poised to change how every order is filled and warehouse managed. Beacons have dropped in …
Uber takes another step towards the future
Uber is such an interesting company. I travel to Washington, DC quite often to visit my fiancee and started using Uber there mostly because it allowed me to pay with a credit card before DC …
Creating a stock market for nonprofits
Can the stock market make the funding of nonprofits more efficient? Talk about a heavy question, especially since the public still doesn’t think too highly of big banks (if you don’t believe me check out …
Toyota brings kaizen to the Food Bank of New York
Toyota offered operational consulting rather than a blank check to an NYC food bank. This is the definition of sustainable operational improvement and the results are staggering. One paragraph sums up the results: At a soup …
Crowdfunding student loans away
Student gets into debt and doesn’t have the job prospects to pay it off. This is a very common sentence and appears to be a more common story with every passing day. If Kelli Space …
Facebook friends facilitate financial freedom
How do you know whether to loan someone money? Many banks rely on traditional credit scores that latch onto historical data, such as on-time credit card payments, utility payments, etc., in the hopes that an …
What happened to this water bottle?
Anyone who does supply chain management, and especially those who do humanitarian logistics, know that shipping water is an expensive but necessary task. Large groups of people congregate in make-shift villages in the aftermath of …