Effective Instruction: Aligning Needs, Goals, and Purpose

Sometimes instruction needs to be serious, sometimes experiential, sometimes individual, and sometimes social. Sometimes content is the issue, sometimes it’s motivation, and sometimes learner preference. It all depends. Understand the primary goals of each instructional strategy, and get to know them well.

Inside Dell Computer Corporation: Managing Working Capital

The secret to excellence lies in doing many things well. It also requires staying focused on the goal even when tempted to do otherwise.

Editor’s Note: this article is from 1998 but for those not too familiar with Dell it will be of value.

How Snap-on Tools Ratchets Its Brand

The way to create a world-class brand is to give customers what they need, when they need it, and never let them out of your sight.

The Pack Mentality: A Behavioral Finance View of Stock Price Comovement

By looking carefully at data on individual stock prices, it is easy to find many examples of “comovement” – groups of stocks whose prices tend to move together. For instance, prices of stocks in the same industry tend to move together, as do the prices of small-cap stocks, value stocks, and closed-end funds.