Tag Archives: Hans Eisenbeis

BIG BOYS DO CRY

April 17, 2013 – 1:17 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis You’d need to have been off the grid and under a rock last week to have missed the instant Internet fame of Reasons My Son Is Crying. The Tumblr was created by Rochester, New York, dad Greg Pembroke to post photos of his 21-month-old son Charlie whenever he was having a meltdown, […]

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Gen Xers split their time between Facebook and face-to-face networking

March 21, 2013 – 6:43 am

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING Even though Millennials get tons of cred for being tech native — born into a world of computers, cellphones and Xboxes — Gen Xers grew into these technologies during the early days of the Internet and the web. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they embraced technology that […]

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IN THE MOMENT

March 6, 2013 – 9:38 am

by Hans Eisenbeis March madness is upon us. According to some, the term “March Madness” originally referred to the Canadian government’s habit of spending madly to meet budget numbers during the last month of their fiscal year in order to avoid cuts in the next cycle. So we have Canadians and profligate spending to thank. […]

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CEB Iconoculture’s Big Ideas 2013 Series: Meet 5 of 5

February 4, 2013 – 1:42 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis Since about the turn of the Millennium, the developed nations of the world noticed that outsourcing to places like China and India was having an interesting effect: It was creating tens of millions of jobs in those countries, raising the standard of living there, and helping convert traditional, rural economies into modern […]

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“Mommy penalty” pushes women’s wages down even further

January 22, 2013 – 4:05 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING Even though women have made big strides in recent decades relative to education and career, they continue to make less than men — on average about 7% less for comparable positions. And a recent survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that women with children typically make […]

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IT’S A WONDERFUL, SOCIAL LIFE

December 18, 2012 – 1:10 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis The holidays underscore some conflicts in the American psyche around instant gratification, conspicuous consumption and the ties that bind us to those on our gifting lists. These themes get a close-up in the annual TV-driven recurrence of It’s a Wonderful Life. At its core, the movie speaks to one of the most […]

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Insurance companies use Facebook to reject or reduce claims

November 13, 2012 – 1:35 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING For years now, experts have been warning social media users to be careful what they post on their favorite websites because it can come back to haunt them in the future. In October 2012, author and attorney Chris Davis said that many insurance companies are now using sites like Facebook […]

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TOGETHER APART

October 30, 2012 – 10:56 am

by Hans Eisenbeis Many thoughtful people have argued that the Internet has not brought us together, it has separated us. Separated us into passionate, backslapping cliques where we only read articles that agree with our opinions, only interact with people who share our beliefs, and only watch media that comports with our worldview. This, they […]

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Fifty Shades of money: Racy book spawns a sub-economy

September 11, 2012 – 1:15 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING It’s not uncommon for a single popular title or series to be hailed as the savior of the feeble book industry, so it comes as little surprise that publishing wonks have declared Fifty Shades of Grey to be a rousing success for its publisher, Vintage Books. 25 million copies of […]

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LABORING ON

September 4, 2012 – 1:53 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis From a certain point of view, yesterday’s Labor Day observances were depressing. The fact is, there are far too many people who couldn’t enjoy the holiday for the simple reason that they have no job to return to today. And though the holiday is meant to specifically pay tribute to America’s industrial […]

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OLYMPIC VILLAGE

July 24, 2012 – 12:37 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis The 2012 London Olympics are upon us, and before we get too immersed in the 100-meter butterfly or the triple jump, we should pause and consider what the Games mean to a world that continues the sometimes painful process of shrinking. Even though markets and borders are more open today than ever […]

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SittingAround.com lets babysitters accept credit cards

June 12, 2012 – 2:09 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING SittingAround.com, a Boston-based social network that connects parents with able and qualified babysitters, is giving a free Square dongle — the plug-and-play swipe-card reader that facilitates easy P2P payments via smartphone — to babysitters who sign up to be members of the network (TechCrunch.com, 25 May 2012). That will allow […]

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ACCELERATING INNOVATION AT FINOVATE 2012

May 8, 2012 – 2:15 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis Money. It’s a pretty mature market, right? It’s been around since, like, the invention of agriculture and accounting. But as with other mature industries, from food to automobiles, marketers’ approach to the financial services world is poised for change. Big change. This week, we’re at Finovate 2012 in San Francisco, and one […]

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“Just walk away… and walk right back.” Strategic modifers emerge?

May 1, 2012 – 1:57 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING They came to be called “strategic defaulters”:  US homeowners who could afford to make mortgage payments but chose not to because their homes were deeply underwater. They simply walked away from those homes, mailed the keys, and took the hit to their credit scores. Now analysts say there may be […]

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A crowdsourced credit card: Barclay throws the terms to its customers

April 24, 2012 – 2:26 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING The credit card industry is ripe for a remake, thanks not only to new heavy-handed federal regulations that put a pinch on old profit lines, but because the marketplace and the times really demand it. Barclaycard is making a bold step into brave new territory with the Barclaycard Ring MasterCard, […]

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