Taha Bhopalwala's Blog Express

In one of my Comm 101 guest lectures on Operations, Mr. Mahesh Nagrajan spoke about his experience of working with a  freemium game company Candy Crush Saga and I was intrigued by the idea of such firms. I always wondered how an easy concept of charging a minimal amount to progress in virtual game could be so profitable. I was further fascinated by the operations and the core idea to generate revenues using this business model by watching a SouthPark video on Youtube. The video explains the role of micro financing (spending in…read more

While reading my peer’s blogs I came across an interesting post about the inefficiency of Air Canada and how they have been unable to keep their stakeholders happy. Two of Air Canada’s main stakeholders are employees and customers  and the firm has managed to keep both dissatisfied. Due to Air Canada’s new policy, it’s customers are reluctant and angered as a result they do not treat the employees with respect. Lack of respect from customers has lead to demotivation of the employees. A demotivated workforce leads to bad service and…read more

While reading my peer’s blogs I came across an interesting argument he put forward in one of his blogs, India’s budget mission to Mars, that speaks about cost reduction due to advancement in technology. I agree with him on the fact that technology can be helpful and cost efficient, however researching and developing new technology is expensive. Hence research and development involves high amount of opportunity cost. In my opinion research and development should be done in productive use. Considering this example, although it is cost effective, the mission to mars costed…read more

In the recent years Investors have been losing patience with Twitter as a result there has been panic sales of the company’s shares. Although Twitter has been benefiting from an increase in it’s revenues, it has also been experiencing consistent losses that has forced the CEO to change his strategies. The article, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Struggles to Define Vision, reveals Twitter’s way of dealing with the situation by targeting a larger customer base. Twitter is a great source of information, and has an increasing market growth and market share, however the firm fails to…read more

Most of the modern economic decisions involve a dilemma between short-term benefits and long-term externalities. This can be best explained by the tension between oil sands industry and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) committee. The have had a persistent debate over the protection or annihilation of the environment of Alberta. The article, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations Chief draws a line in sand, talk about the various implications that economic decisions have had in the past. The article is based on the interview of ACNF’s chief explaining the community’s viewpoint of how…read more