Growing up in Rwanda, I didn’t know I was going to meet most of the friends I have now in the United States. I was not thinking that at one point  in my life I will be having many friends from different parts of the world especially China, Indonesia and the United States itself were […]

Silicon Valley is known for the destination of the many big tech companies such as Cisco, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, etc. One might wonder why these great technology companies of today are centrally, if not started, in the Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley, “has long been the model of success for a modern regional economy”(NYT), […]

http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/497168.html
The article linked to above discusses the use of online social networks to advance one’s career. It mentions how sites even specifically dedicated to social networking (Facebook and Myspace) are starting to be used for professional networking. This is often accomplished through the use of professional groups within the social site.
Aside from the […]

http://www.chicagogsb.edu/capideas/jan08/3.aspx
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-055.pdf
This is one of the five topics that Ben posted in his blog recently.
How do mutual fund managers of billions of dollars choose which stock to invest in?
The article in the link above and the video in the second link reveal an interesting discovery. That’s right; mutual fund managers turn to their educational network. The […]

Microbiologists would generally agree that the rapid rate at which microorganisms adapt to their environments, and in particular, to antimicrobial agents, is alarming. One may almost characterize the extreme immunity enjoyed of many microorganisms as an opposing army that only seems to get stronger when encountered by our best devices. It may seem […]

In our introduction to game theory we learned about the famous Prisoners’ Dilemma, in which two prisoners given the option to confess or not confess their crime, will always both confess, despite the Pareto Efficient outcome of both not confessing. This is because their dominant strategy is to confess as it will always provide […]

Taking the media by storm is news of an online group named Anonymous and its efforts to debilitate the Church of Scientology. For those who haven’t been following the back-and-forth between Anonymous and the CoS, the former is a mysterious “hacker” group which – three weeks ago – posted this YouTube video threatening the […]

Prior to my attending Cornell I worked as a real estate broker in Washington state. So, during the lecture on strong triadic closure I kept thinking about how the idea of one individual (node) with a strong relationship to two other people (edges) will then almost automatically create at least a weak relationship between these […]

I’d like to point out five very exciting articles / links that people should definitely check out:

Finance / Investing: Researchers from Harvard Business School have found that portfolio managers do better when they invest on firms they have personal connections with (went to college / grad school with). In fact returns on ‘connected’ investments were […]

In poker, there rarely are any pure strategies; almost all equilibriums are composed of mixed strategies. The question that must be asked is: how do you strategically play a hand with so little information? If poker was a game of perfect information, it would be very bland. For instance, if you knew […]