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Get Your MBA in Design Strategy Here

March 25th, 2008 · Comments Off · Information Design, Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Other Markets

In a further confirmation that it is no longer the geeks who are taking over the earth, but the designers, we see a new twist on your typical MBA. Nathan Shedroff is in change of something called The MBA in Design Strategy. If you are rich (or can get loans), I would encourage you to [...]

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Interview: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of Health Populi

February 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets, Interviews

The internet is awash in blogs about healthcare. Many we enjoy (many we don’t even know about, sadly), but there is one that UsableMarkets loves above all others: Health Populi. Written by healthcare economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, the blog manages sober (and enlightening) reflection on healthcare news and events, including [...]

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Usable Country Day

January 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Other Markets

For those who haven’t read (or listened to) Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech, it is remarkable, and certainly worth reading not only for the quality of its content, but its metaphorical power. Martin Luther King Jr. made civil rights accessible in a way few have (or can) by communicating clearly the past, [...]

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Need a Vacation Home? Just Wait 25 Years

January 20th, 2008 · Comments Off · Fun, Other Markets

Yes, I am an Economist fanboy. Tis true. But it’s hard not to be when they spot trends I’ve been thinking about for years. For example: For a while I’ve been saying that as soon as the baby boomers start (ahem) visiting their deceased relatives – long vacations, to be sure – they’ll be selling [...]

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Scarcity of Imagination, Not Production, in Virtual Worlds

December 4th, 2007 · Comments Off · Virtual World Markets

Scarcity is one of those economic concepts that gets taken for a whirl by virtual worlds. To be as brief as possible, because we can’t satisfy every human’s every need and want, we have scarcity. Some of us will always go without something. The causes of scarcity can be twofold: one, the cost of supplying [...]

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