
Steven Toomey is a consultant for Accenture in New York City. Steve has an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, graduated from Bates College, and spent a year studying at the University of St. Andrews. Previously, Steve worked for Adaptive Path and Share Our Strength. He occasionally takes photos. To get in touch, send an e-mail.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the true price of text messages. ![]()
Introducing w00t, your 2007 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year. ![]()
Forbes writer Daniel Lyons is the man behind Fake Steve Jobs, so says The New York Times. ![]()
The New York Times has the scoop on the strange world of professional tennis racket restringing. And I thought golfers were picky about their equipment. ![]()
Regarding the 2007 PGA TOUR schedule, Tiger Woods giveth — a new event in Washington, DC, on Fourth of July weekend — and Tiger Woods taketh away — The International, and its Modified Stableford System, is history. ![]()
Here’s Lane Becker on JetBlue’s disaster-recovery customer service and on the big screen in Darden’s Abbott Auditorium, as part of today’s Darden Technology Conference. Lane was unexpectedly snowed in at Lake Tahoe and missed his flight, but through the miracle of technology we successfully videoconferenced him into the panel. Hooray! Or, as they say in Charlottesville, wahoowah! ![]()
My Adaptive Path colleague Ryan Freitas sees dead people. ![]()
I bet Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader would fail to see the humor in this. ![]()
Wharton is without question a great business school, and great business schools are generally full of great minds. So I was more than a little disappointed to read Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader’s comments about Apple’s iPhone in a recent Knowledge@Wharton interview.
My biggest problem with Fader’s critique is that it’s painfully obvious the guy did zero research before the interview. He definitely didn’t watch Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote, or else he wouldn’t have claimed the lack of Mac-related announcements was “a signal that they’re not going to be developing or supporting [the Mac] as much as they used to.” Or that the corporate name change to Apple Inc. was an “admission of defeat.” Or that the iPhone’s lack of a keyboard is a “really, really important” missing feature. Um, not having a plastic keyboard is the whole point of the device! Fader could have saved himself and Wharton a lot of embarrassment if he’d done his homework rather than shooting from the hip. I doubt he’d expect anything less from his students in the classroom. ![]()
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