Dominic Jan Sunga's Blog

With iPads in the market, we are now experiencing for the first time what it would be like to live in the futuristic world of touch technology. The question is now, when will we get there? It doesn’t seem to be taking too long, what with the new tablet technologies and the second generation iPad coming out very soon. But it seems that people are still relying more heavily on their laptops and pcs. When will the business world gear us toward a more touch based future? read it all on:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/bisworld/tablets-hot-in-asia-but-not-about-to-unseat-the-laptop/400536

It isn’t news to anyone that the most recent financial crisis hit the world hard. Unemployment was rampant and people began to question the effectiveness of capitalism. Is it really working? Do we really have the right system in place? Personally, I believe that capitalism would work great – if we stopped trying to control everything. Read this TIME magazine article and think for yourself:

http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/10/11/can-policymakers-revive-the-stalled-recovery/#more-12056

Want to hear about sustainable businesses?

Listen to Ray Anderson, one of the world’s former plunderers, a taker from the world contributing in converting our world’s resources into pollution. Listen to how he changed the way his business was run, and how it is now one of the most greenest businesses in the world, and his goal for Mission Zero.

Think Organizational Behavior is boring? That maybe most of the things were learning in class are terms and their definitions? Well, I can’t say if that’s true or not; it really depends on each individual student taking the class. But I can say that OB has its uses, and it’s evident in the worlds largest social network: Facebook. You’d think that it’s creator (or supposed creator) Mark Zuckerberg, is a social god who is outgoing and extroverted. But that’s wrong. Actually, he likes to be alone an he’s quite shy. His personality often gets in the way of doing good business, which is where Sheryl Sandberg comes in. To read more about Zuckerberg and Sandberg’s relationship, click on the link below. It also shows how the things we learn in OB become useful in the business world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03face.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=business

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/business/16bias.html?_r=1&ref=business

The link above is an article in The New York Times about gender bias in Wall Street, specifically in Goldman Sachs. The article clearly points out and provides sufficient evidence that women are not given the same opportunity and income as males in executive positions. This is a delicate topic as women have already been deemed equal to men in the business world, but are yet to receive equal treatment in the workplace. Although women have already begun to be treated as equals, the main ethical issue is that there is still gender discrimination against women.  Wall Street and its executives are only an example of a major problem in the business world.

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