Recent trends show that higher education in the United States is skyrocketing in price across institutions that are both public and private. Unfortunately, these inflations are not limited to tuition. Housing, meal plans, and peripheral costs have all shot up in recent years. One of the most startling financial drains for college students is money spent at the bookstore. While … [Read more...] about New Millennium Business: The Textbook Fiasco
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Thirst for Tea: China
Tea is immensely, ridiculously popular. Today, it is the second most drunk beverage in world after water, but its popularity and the West’s efforts to control its market resulted in the decline of China. Tea is native to China, and its fabled first use dates back to an emperor in (exactly!) 2732 B.C. In 200 B.C., the character for tea first appeared, picturing man and nature … [Read more...] about Thirst for Tea: China
The Music Industrialist: #MeToo & the Music Industry
Last year saw the rise of the #MeToo movement in the entertainment industry, a paradigm shift in which dozens of powerful and successful Hollywood executives, filmmakers and actors finally faced accountability for decades of sexual harassment and assault on women in the industry. As more women came forward with harrowing accounts of abuse, the world listened, and it seems as … [Read more...] about The Music Industrialist: #MeToo & the Music Industry
Beating the Business Life Cycle: The Walt Disney Company
The business life cycle is a relatively simple concept that explains the growth and development of companies, as well as the eventual decline of profitability and death of the same companies. However, certain businesses find ways to revitalize and enter a second period of growth after the maturity phase, avoiding the end of their life cycle. Conceptually, beating this … [Read more...] about Beating the Business Life Cycle: The Walt Disney Company
The Music Industrialist: SESAC & the Music Modernization Act
In a time of extreme political polarization, one measure that both sides of the aisle support wholeheartedly is this year’s Music Modernization Act. While the music industry has transformed drastically and constantly in the last twenty years, music licensing and publishing laws have failed to keep up, leaving even the most successful songwriters with far less revenue than one … [Read more...] about The Music Industrialist: SESAC & the Music Modernization Act