A List of Links
As 2017 has concluded, time to take stock. Here is the list of most read posts on the OWL Blog. 2017 Book Recommendations Books read in 2017 Where have all the Retail jobs gone? Death by a Single Cut? Roaming…
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2017 Book Recommendations
Highlighting five books that I loved reading in 2017. These are not necessarily books that were published in 2017. By design, and by inhibitions imposed by the relative paucity of my prior readings, I tend to read books after a…
Some 2017 Recommendations
Here are some curated recommendations for your holiday watching I limit my consumption of media (not books). So, like all lists, this one is also highly subjective. (I have no financial interest in recommending these). Movies Kubo and the two…
Containers!
The Containers Podcast mini-series (with eight self-contained 30-minute episodes) by Alexis Madrigal at Atlantic is amazing! As an Operations academic in a business school, I am a fan of both nitty-gritty details and narrative story-telling canvas. When I came across…
Pricing Hula Hoops
The Hudsucker Proxy is my second favorite Coen brothers movie on rewatchability.1 Within their oeuvre, The Hudsucker Proxy is closest to capturing the humor in American manufacturing/business culture (exceeded only by William H. Macy’s exasperated car salesman role in Fargo).…
Roaming Workforce: A review of Nomadland
Where do temporary e-commerce workers come from? I noticed that Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland, a book I enjoyed reading earlier in November, was listed in the NYTimes 100 Notable Non-Fiction books of 2017. Well-deserved recognition for the book. I recommend the book review by…
How to Watch Star Wars with your kids?
[A deviation from usual Operations Posts]. Star Wars is easily the second biggest cultural export of the United States. (Disney is No 1. So it seems natural that Disney eventually acquired the rights to Star Wars). Parents often want to…