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University of north Carolina Asheville Summer Activities

6/11/2019

I just received an email from someone at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where I will be teaching this fall and next spring. The email suggested summer fitness resources and activities. The nicest part of the email was the following:

"Finally, please take the opportunity to invite a colleague for a walk around campus. Enjoy the weather, the company, and the edibles our Campus Operations folks work hard to maintain. The strawberries and serviceberries may have come and gone, but there are raspberries, blueberries, and greens ready now, with figs, more greens, and blackberries on the horizon."

Wow! A campus that plants and maintains edible fruits for its students, faculty, and staff. Nice.

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Research in three stages

4/23/2019

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I have been absent from this personal blog for a while. During this spring 2019 semester I ended up teaching five business courses in three institutions. It has been a busy period, considering that I also have been conducting the research interviews for my PhD dissertation. I am completing the first stage of my research - the interviews. I start the second stage next week - the analysis. I'll overlay the third stage - the writing - with the analysis as I begin to assemble my insights from the data.

I am teaching Fundamentals of Strategic Management, the capstone course for the undergraduate business program at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. I am teaching the same capstone course at Canisius College, as well as the capstone Strategy course for the MBA program at Canisius. And at Daemen College, I am teaching two Master's-level courses, one on global business, and the other on doing business in the Pacific Rim.

The good news for me is that I will finish my interviews for my research next week and will start the analysis of the interview data, as well as starting to write. The research has been a uniquely enjoyable process. I have learned about teaching, especially from the students whom I have interviewed. Their perspectives on learning are amazing.

Keep an eye on my Learning Research blog, where I will summarize the insights I gain as I work through the interview data. Click here to go to the Learning Research blog.

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International Trade and Investment Interactive Infographic

2/22/2019

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This link takes you to a sophisticated interactive infographic that explains International Trade and Investment:

https://toplink.weforum.org/knowledge/insight/a1Gb0000000LFX9EAO/explore/summary

To use the infographic, listen to the narrative first (the audio button on the top right). Then click on the circular nodes, such as "Digital Trade" or "Global Trade Architecture." This will take you to a new view of the graphic and descriptive text on the right.

Currently, I am teaching two undergraduate Strategic Management courses, and one graduate Strategic Management course. I'm also teaching two graduate courses related to international trade. This is the perfect infographic for my students, and for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of contemporary trade issues.

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"How Facebook Stole Your Psychological Profile"

1/1/2019

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This is an article from Psychology Today, by Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D. Here is the opening paragraph:

"As revelations continue to unfold in the latest Facebook scandal, we now know that millions of its users have unwittingly participated in research revealing details about their friends, their shopping habits, and their psychological profile, otherwise known as “psychographics,” or profiling of personality."

Here is the link to the full article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201804/how-facebook-stole-your-psychological-profile

This issue is one of a few reasons I have left Facebook. Their networking tools are wonderful -- I had 2,200 Friends. But their psychological profiling, and their selling or sharing of those profiles, began to bother me to the point that I felt it necessary to give up the benefits for a little more control.

Could someone with the right expertise and software profile me by going through my personal website? Yep. But I have somewhat more control here, and I can monitor myself as well.

It is more work to share things here, so I'll have to be more thoughtful. Yet I regained substantial time now that I am not checking, reading, and posting on Facebook. I will miss my friends there. I hope they join me here.

Here is another excerpt from the Psychology Today article:

"It appears that these protections weren’t taken when Alaksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge (England) psychologist who worked for Cambridge Analytica, partnered with Facebook to provide a means of profiling users (who had to opt-in) with a personality test assessing the Five Factor Model. This is a test that is widely used in legitimate research on everything from narcissism to psychopathology and every other personality constellation in between. There are short and long versions; this article* will lead you to some of these free versions."

* http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-personality-test-cambridge-analytica-data-trump-election-2018-3

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