Archive for June, 2009
How would a product manager fix higher education?
By Robert van der Hooning and Ben Bradley The recession has taken aim at higher education. It’s too late to hide, the carnage is everywhere. Even Harvard feels the pain. It offered buyouts to 1,600 employees after suffering an $8 billion endowment loss. In California, the situation is ugly – a $97 million cut for [...]
A great new creative approach for a 419 scam
The scammers just keep getting more creative. Here is a 419 spam I recently received. Very clever. I am Mrs.Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernard Madoff. I am actually going through some kind of difficult time with my family right now, as my husband is at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City. My [...]
