Tag: Olin in the Media

If you want to watch all the Star Wars movies prior to the opening of “The Force Awakens” Friday, Dec. 18, you won’t find them on Netflix, Hulu or other streaming services. You will have to shell out some serious cash to binge on the galaxy far, far away. Olin’s Raphael Thomadsen, associate professor of marketing, tells NBC News:

“Right now even casual fans are willing to pay more,” Raphael Thomadsen, a marketing professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told NBC News.

“On Amazon, you can buy the digital version of each film for $19.99 a piece, or buy all six films in “Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection” for $89.99. The same deal is available over at Google Play, iTunes and the Microsoft Store. The movie bundle is slightly more expensive in the PlayStation Store ($99.99).”

Link to article on NBC website.

January 1, 2016 will be here soon! What are you resolved to do in the new year? Exercise, read more, lose weight, text less, eat healthy, volunteer? Research from Hengchen Dai, assistant professor of organizational behavior and coauthors at Wharton investigates when you are most motivated to act on resolutions. Jan. 1 may not be a good day for you. Read this story on The Washington Post blog, “New Year’s resolutions often fail. Good thing the year is full of fresh starts” to find out more.

Link to WashU Newsroom news release.

As team revenues increase, professional baseball salaries continue to surge with the latest out-of-the-ballpark figure of $217 million offered to David Price to play for the Boston Red Sox. Patrick Rishe, Olin’s director of the Business of Sports program, told the Marketplace public radio program that it’s a matter of supply and demand:

“Every market, there’s supply and demand considerations,” said Patrick Rishe, director of sports business at Washington University in St. Louis and founder of the research firm Sportsimpacts. “But a top-flight, left-handed starter is in short supply. Most of us are not as in short supply in terms of how unique we are to our employers.”

The average baseball player salary is reportedly 66 times the average American household income. And the next big contract for the next David Price will be more inflated than the last.

Link to Marketplace story

“How Olin Maintains A 97% Placement Rate” is the headline on an extensive interview with Mark Brostoff, associate dean and director of Olin’s Weston Career Center on the website, Poets & Quants. The article by Jeff Schmitt posted November 23, 2015, shares some of the secrets – but not all – to the outstanding job placement track record at Olin. Link to the full article.

Can you tell the difference between real Cyber Week deals and marketing gimmicks? Olin professor Selin Malkoc offers some timely tips for shoppers surfing the web for the cheapest prices.

Selin Malkoc, associate professor marketing

Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday have morphed into Cyber Week, Prof. Malkoc tells website WalletHub, “the consumers who get the best deals are the ones who are diligent in their search.” In other words, do your homework!

Read more advice from Prof. Malkoc on:

• How to protect yourself from overspending on Cyber Monday
• Why it’s important to compare features instead of exact model numbers
• Wait, before you click the “buy” button

Link to WalletHub article

Link to WUSTL Newsroom story

John Byrne created the first business school ranking at BusinessWeek magazine in 1988.  Now, as founder and editor of the Poets & Quants website, Byrne creates an annual ranking based on what he considers the five “most influential” surveys in the world. Byrne explains:

Unlike other rankings, the Poets&Quants composite list combines the latest five most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Instead of merely averaging the five, each ranking is separately weighted to account for our view of their authority. (U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, while both the FT and Businessweek is given a 15% weight, and The Economist, 10% weight.)

Find out why Byrne invented business school rankings in our exclusive video.

Link to Byrne’s ranking of the rankings here.