The Sunday New York Times magazine has a profile a Nokia "user anthropologist" who travels the world (mostly the developing world) observing how people use their cell phones in order to give the cell phone giant a competitive edge in new product...
(graphic courtesy of The New York Times) Corporate decision makers are honing their accuracy by tapping into the collective wisdom of employees and customers via web-based prediction markets. An article to today's New York Times explains: Corporate prediction...
Today's American Banker features a timeline of the Federal Reserve's actions since August of last year. Graphical representation makes the impact of opening the discount window to investment banks really stand out (blue bars). A Crisis...
(from Chandoo.org via Lifehacker) Impress your colleagues - and your boss! - with these very cool Excel tricks: 1) Highlighting alternative rows / columns in tables 2) No-nonsense project plans / gantt charts 3) Extreme in-cell graphs 4) Highlight mistakes, errors,...
Forgive me this somewhat off-topic post, but it made me laugh out loud. Excerpted from Dave Birch at Digital Money Forum:[Dave Birch] It's amazing to me -- no, not amazing, more kind of quaint, reassuring and comforting -- that in this high-technology e-money...
Financial Week's Matthew Quinn observes that Gary Crittenden at Citigroup has the toughest CFO job in the world. The toughest CFO job in the worldThree words to describe Gary Crittenden’s challenges at Citigroup: Oh. My. God.By Matthew QuinnFinancial...
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We're all susceptible, even NYC's Mayor Bloomberg. Read all about it here.
Sunday's New York Times features a cool graphic explaining how mortgage securitization works and why the market is so troubled now. Kudos to the graphics team at the NYTimes - they'v done a great job of simplifying this esoteric process for the layperson....
