What A Dog Fight! TKO: Pets.com

The case covers the startup of Pets.com, an online retailer of pet supplies. Pets.com made its entry into a heavily competitive but potentially lucrative market. Despite heavy capital funding and a number of high-profile strategic initiatives, the company closed its doors in November, 2000. The demise of Pets.com is considered to be one of the highest-profile dotcom failures

Classroom Instructional Technology: Options For Securing Equipment

University budgets are shifting from the purchase of new classroom instructional technology to the security of existing technology. This paper examines security alternatives, the implications, and challenges of implementation

Building Customer Value And Profitability With Business Ethics

Firms assume ethical business practices only add costs to the firm. However, business ethics actually add value for customers and result in increased profitability and performance for the firm

To Learn Or Not To Learn: The Effect Of Educational Technology On Learning In Accounting Courses

Student preferences for interactive educational technology tools are explored in the context of accounting classes. A research study shows that students receive benefits from these active learning tools, and the tools can be used to enhance the educational experience of students while lessening the burden on instructors

Building Customer Value And Profitability With Business Ethics

Firms assume ethical business practices only add costs to the firm. However, business ethics actually add value for customers and result in increased profitability and performance for the firm

Printing On Paper: Costly Nuisance Or Pedagogical Imperative?

What are the typical printing behaviors of students? What is the extent of wastage? What are student attitudes towards different pay-per-print schemes? What might be strategies for educational institutions to achieve less printing while not impeding pedagogical quality? “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed” - Benjamin Frankli

Teach Me In The Way I Learn: Education And The Internet Generation

College students learn differently than their professors.  This disconnect between learning styles is not a new problem, however the problem has been magnified by the technology driven environment which exists in contemporary higher education. Students who grew up using computers and Playstations while surfing MySpace blogs and listening to their MP3 players are frequently neither receptive to traditional lectures nor able to relate to examples based on 20th century technologies.  Numerous tools and technologies, however, can be used effectively to teach college students. This paper discusses several methods of addressing this disconnect through both pedagogical technique and classroom technologies

Moving From Dumb To Smart Classrooms: Technology Options And Implementation Issues

What are “Smart Classrooms” and why do we need them? What technology components are necessary for a smart classroom, and what are the implementation challenges

Instant Messenger Friends? Social Relationship Behavior Differences Between Two Countries

Canadian and U.S. respondents’ social behavior resulting from communication tools is examined.  Results suggest that Canadians are less likely to use social communication tools to develop new relationships