Nutrition

Science and Application of Human Nutrition was the only summer class that went the full 12 week summer term until a stats class in my doctoral program. My undergrad summer term was strange with a bunch of four week classes, a one week class, and then this one that seemed to drag on, even though it was still a month shorter than a normal Fall or Spring course.

There are few classes that make my required list for all majors. Econ is one, Family Finance (even though I never actually had to take it), English (even though none of the English classes I've seen teach writing at the level I think needs to be met), Statistics (get rid of Calculus), and Nutrition. I know the Philosophy department has some type of Logic course that I'd be tempted to add if I knew more about it. There's probably a PoliSci or History course about how our political system works that would be good to include as well.

To be a functioning member of society, you need to be able to make intelligent decisions with inherent trade-offs, know how to call BS on all the numbers you see in any news story ever, write logically and intelligibly, manage your money and plan for retirement, and take care of yourself physically. In Boy Scouts, I think the Cooking merit badge should be a required one. It wouldn't take much to push me over the edge and say that Cooking should be a required course in college as well, but Nutrition comes close enough.

I only wish I remembered more about what I learned. I do recall talking about lactic acid, which is what causes pain after you've worked out hard. Part of the process of converting glucose to energy results in excess lactate, which changes the acidity of the blood, and you hurt until the acid levels return to normal. Continuing to work out the same area will get it to a point where it is used to exerting itself and will be able to keep the acid levels balanced.

The most eye-opening part of the course is where you use a provided software program to track what you eat for something like a week, and it runs the numbers to tell you where your diet is deficient. Of course, the course goes deeper than that by showing you how the various nutrients and other things we eat interact. You consume a ton of Vitamin C, great, but too much can start blocking the absorption of copper and throw off your iron balance. Knowing the number of calories in fat, alcohol, sugar, and other foods can help you moderate.

If I'd been thinking about how it would be affecting my body, I might not have eaten a whole Brownie In A Mug last night. I don't know how diabetics feel when their insulin levels are off, but it may be similar to the I-feel-really-good-yet-really-bad-at-the-same-time feeling I had after eating it. On the plus side, making a mug-sized brownie will keep you from making and eating a whole pan. If you're going to make it, throw in a few chocolate chips and a teaspoon or so of peanut butter. And split it with someone.

Brownie In A Mug

Ingredients:
4 Tablespoons Flour
4 Tablespoons Sugar
2 Tablespoons Cocoa powder
2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
2 Tablespoons Water
Dash of salt

Instructions:
Mix dry ingredients in a mug. Add oil and water, and mix well.

You could drop in a pinch of baking powder if you really want, but it's very much optional and probably doesn't make any difference. Peanut butter, chocolate chips, Rolos, Cadbury cream eggs, etc. also optional. I actually added a few drops of vanilla as well, maybe 1/8 of a teaspoon. You could also swap out butter for the oil. Maybe you're getting the picture that this is a small enough and fast enough recipe that you can play with it a bit.

Microwave about a minute and 30 seconds. Maybe start with a minute and work your way up until you know how your microwave and mug interact. It will be a little gooey, which is good. A scoop of vanilla ice cream would be a great addition.

I didn't have ice cream, but I poured in a little milk at the end, otherwise I don't think I could have gotten through it. My 7 y/o was asking for more after finishing his. Oh to be young and unaware of what damage all that sugar and fat does. I'm looking forward to the phone call after he takes Nutrition in college.

International Economics

International econ is an important extension of economics, one of the more important subjects we learn about in business. I'm not quite sure I got everything I could have out of this particular course, due to some peculiarities of its delivery.

The first peculiarity is simply that it was a summer course. Of course, I love summer courses for their intense, focused nature and then how quickly it's over. The second peculiarity was related, kind of. The related part was that it was summer, very hot, and the cooling system in the Natural Resources building where we were meeting went out.

At least one day class was cancelled due to the heat and probably HVAC technicians working on the problem. One day we met outside. We just sat around on the ground - grass, cement, whatever - and talked as other people walked by and our voices floated off to nowhere instead of bouncing back off the wall in the strangely shaped auditorium (extra steep and building support pillars blocking the view from some seats. Several days were spent with industrial strength fans blowing on us, drowning out part of the conversation. If it wasn't a compressed summer course, missing a day wouldn't have put us behind so far, plus it probably wouldn't have been as hot, and there would have been more days in between to get it fixed before the next time we met.

Getting to the actual content of the course, I think we would be better off as a country if more of us really understood these concepts. We hear about issues with other countries like Greece not being able to pay their debts but don't really understand how that affects us. We talk about manufacturing jobs being sent to China, but what does that do other than send some of our jobs there?

As interconnected as the world market is, everything we do affects others. Our stock exchange may close but another one on the other side of the world is opening. Arbitragers are constantly trolling for pennies of difference in exchange rates in different markets in order to run a pile of money through both markets and capitalize on the difference. We want free trade, yet some tariffs help protect jobs in our country in order to ensure we don't lose critical skills and become dependent on others.

Listening to the political debates currently going on, there are expectations that the president or other political leaders have much more control over world events than they actually do. You can't instantly create millions of jobs like Obama claims he can do. Romney's claim that he can stabilize our economy by helping people in other countries start businesses likewise sounds nice, but is a fairly unmeasurable long term plan that depends on a lot of factors to come together.

We listen to statements from everyone running for office, and it's hard to separate what's realistic or not without a firm understanding of the principles that affect international trade. The real improvements in worldwide economies can only come through many sides working together in the long term, following sound economic principles. No one is really interested in that as they focus instead on squeezing a couple cents profit times thousands or millions of dollars or shares of stock traded while markets are synching.

photo by carderel

Time Zones and Daylight Savings

Years ago, the vice president over the department I worked for had a Blackberry. Based on a strange way about how the Blackberry interfaced with the Exchange server (and how he put in his appointments), when he set up appointments on his phone, they would end up being an hour off sometimes. When he was traveling to the west coast, for example, if he put in appointment for the next week at 10 a.m., that would be 10 Pacific, and when he returned to the office it would show at 11 Mountain, and by the time he realized what happened, he'd missed his meeting.

The part that took longer to figure out was that if he went down into the basement of the building we worked in, his regular signal would get lost, but he would catch some stray roaming signal that was not adjusted for Daylight Savings Time, his phone would change times, he'd enter an appointment, walk back upstairs, and his appointments were wrong. Training him to pay attention to whether his phone had changed times was not an option that he seemed to have the capacity to deal with. I ended up fixing the problem by changing a setting in his phone to not adjust time automatically to the local network time.

Working at a school now where the students and staff are spread out all over the country or further, this is a common issue. I had one coworker who repeatedly set up appointments with me in Outlook two hours off. She would look at my calendar and not realize it was showing her times based on her own time zone. She thought that since it was my calendar, it was my time zone, so she didn't need to adjust for the difference. Finally when I showed her how to specify the time zone, too, they started coming in right.

I had some major confusion with a student in one of my courses. His problem is that he's from Arizona. Arizona doesn't use Daylight Savings Time. Great for them. They have their reasons, largely due to the extreme heat. That's fine, but if you live in Arizona, you become the anomaly and thus the person who I believe needs to pay closer attention to time differences. If I was living in the U.S. and working for a company based in China, it would be my job to keep track of time differences.

So this is how the conversation went.

AZ: I am on Arizona time and do work during the day. I am available after 4:00pm on Wednesday.

Me: I work until 9 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. This Wednesday is pretty full. Would sometime Thursday night work?

AZ: 5:30pm-6:30pm AZ time, that would be 5:30-6:30 your time?

[Thursday morning, before I had a chance to respond to the previous email...]
AZ: Are we set for a call today at 5:30 pm MST?

Me: I am planning on calling tonight. I just want to make sure we’ve got the right time, since you had said 5:30 AZ time, but during the summer we’re off by an hour due to daylight savings up here in Utah, so 5:30 MST, 6:30 MDT.

AZ: 5:30MST / 4:30PST
AZ is currently on PST
So 5:30MST (if I am correct you are on MST) will be 4:30 for me.

The breakdown started when he mistakenly listed 5:30-6:30 for both our time zones, when I think he meant to change one of them. I responded looking for clarification, because I wasn't sure what he meant, since 5:30 in AZ is not the same as 5:30 in UT.

His response to my request for clarification was telling of the general lack of understanding of time zones and daylight savings time. I live in Utah, which is Mountain Time. From Spring to Fall, we are on Mountain Daylight Time. From Fall to Spring, we are on Mountain Standard Time. Since Arizona does not change for DST, it is on Mountain Standard Time all year long. Arizona is never on Pacific Standard Time. Never. During the summer, Pacific Daylight Time springs forward and is the same as Mountain Standard Time, but Pacific Standard Time doesn't change. It's still an hour behind Mountain Standard Time. If I'd have called at 4:30 PST, it would have been an hour later than he expected.

There is some argument to be made that daylight savings should perhaps be changed to be the standard, seeing how we are on DST approximately two-thirds of the year since President Bush kicked out the start and end dates back in 2007. If daylight time becomes the standard, maybe we could still fall back in the winter, but call it Morning Commute Daylight Time. I wouldn't have a problem with keeping it forward all year long, though, so there is a few minutes of daylight after getting off work in the evening, even if that meant the sun wouldn't rise until 9 a.m.

So, Fall and Winter are the standard. In the Spring and Summer (technically starting the last two weeks of Winter, thanks to President Bush), the time changes to DST. That means don't send out invitations to your beach party and tell them you'll start at 4 p.m. EST. Assuming it's a beach party because it's summer and warm enough to have a party on the beach, you'll want to say 4 p.m. EDT, otherwise people who know the difference might show up an hour late (4 EST = 5 EDT). Of course, those who know the difference also know that nobody else knows the difference and always says it wrong.

The trick if you know anyone south of the equator is that their seasons are opposite us northerners, but they still spring forward and fall back. I learned this when in Paraguay. Calling home on Christmas morning, I asked someone what the time difference was. They had remembered that before the time changed, it was a two hour difference between Utah and Paraguay. The only problem was that when Utah fell back an hour, Paraguay sprung forward an hour, and the two hour difference in the summer became a four hour difference in the winter and a 5 a.m. wake-up call for my family. Oops. And it was my fault, because it was my responsibility to know the difference as the one in another country.

Production/Operations Management

While it was probably one of the courses I had the least interest in initially, the Production/Operations Management course brought together some core business concepts for me that are really important. I'd probably still take the lessons from economics over those of operations management given the choice, but they actually work well together.

One of the key concepts we learned was that of kaizen and lean manufacturing. You can go read the Wikipedia article on the topic yourself, but the basic idea is that do something, measure the results, improve the process, and repeat. That's the ultra-simplistic view of it, so nobody quote me about kaizen in your master's thesis based on what I just wrote. The important part is that you look for improvement ideas from everywhere, but you start as close to the process as possible. The worker on the assembly line can probably tell you better what would make that particular job easier than a manager might.

The apocryphal story about the toothpaste factory comes to mind. You can read the fancy version or my two sentence recap. Basically, in order to detect toothpaste boxes that somehow missed getting a tube of toothpaste put inside it and shipped empty to stores and customers, they spent thousands or millions of dollars implementing a scale system that stops the line if an empty box is detected. Very quickly the number of defects drops to zero, not because there are no more empty boxes, but because the guy who had to grab the empty boxes off the scale and restart the line installed a $20 fan to blow the empty boxes into a garbage can just before it hit the scale so he wouldn't have do it by hand.

Who knows if that really happened, but it's a great story anyway.

Something else I learned, which is something I teach today in my project management class is the idea of the critical path. While there are differences with a project being a temporary endeavor and operations being ongoing processes, the idea of the critical path is the same. You track your way through from the beginning to the end of the project or one cycle through a process and determine which tasks have the most direct impact on the length of time it takes to complete the project/process. You can then determine which tasks need the most management attention to keep them on track or come up with potential ways of fast-tracking or crashing the critical path to reduce the amount of time it takes without having an adverse impact on quality.

One last item I always think about related to this class is the movie The Truman Show. It's not that anything we did in the class related at all to the show. I can't even think of any kind of lean manufacturing metaphor that could be related to the movie. It's just that in one class period, we were watching a video about John Deere and their kaizen practices. It was one of those two hour summer classes, where we got a short break in the middle of class. A friend of mine had a copy of The Truman Show in his bag to show as part of a presentation in another class. It was a VHS tape cued up to the scene where he's driving through the forest fires and nuclear accident trying to get out of town. I put the tape into the TV in front of class so when the professor restarted the John Deere video, we got Jim Carrey getting tackled by guys in radiation suits instead. It was great. I thought so anyway. The professor eventually found the tape in its container and put it back in, and I was even able to grab the movie from the desk up front while another student was talking to him after class and thus return it to my friend without the professor knowing who did it. I think deep down inside he would have rather watched a Jim Carrey movie, or maybe that was just me.

Charades

Several neighbor kids were over, and everyone decided to play charades. Most of them selected relatively innocuous people, places, or things to act out like a football player or a chicken or baking a cake.

I was in the other room, so while I could hear what was going on, I couldn't see how everything was acted out. I was tempted to come play along when one particular child acted out the following, all of which had to be explained since no one could guess them:

• a dead dog
• a frozen person
• a mummy
• a bear getting shot by a hunter

photo by net_efekt

It seems that most of those would at some point look largely the same as each other, holding still with a strange look on one's face. I wonder what else you could act out that would look exactly the same, although perhaps slightly less moribund? A thief caught in a spotlight? A very slow mime? A sleeping sloth?

Great Idea

I was cleaning out the back of the car and realized what a nice space there is back there if you lay down the third row seats.

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Our next road trip is going to be cake with the baby play pen seat configuration!

Marketing

I might be tempted to call my undergraduate Marketing class the most useless class I took in college, but that honor goes another class coming up the following semester. I'll get to that later.

First I want to show a couple examples of the kinds of things we didn't cover in my Marketing class. These are commercials that are just worth watching, partly because they're almost not commercials. Sure the basketball thing is more staged than surprising, but it's still enjoyable to watch. The fear on the guys' faces in the other video is pure surprise. There's no overt salesman in plaid yelling at you to buy their products. It's just building awareness of brands.

My undergrad marketing class was a four week summer course. Like I've said before, I love summer classes. Four weeks and done. All my business core courses were those shortened workshop-style courses, which suited me fine. Being a summer course, they had an adjunct teach it. I'm not sure where they got the guy, but while I'm sure he knew something about marketing, it wasn't something he was all that keen on sharing with the rest of us.

There are two things I remember from his class. For part of the class we talked about mission and visions statements. We wrote our own personal mission and vision, which he sent back to us via mail several months after the class was over. Yes, this was a few years ago, but not so long ago that we weren't saving files we typed up on our own computers so we probably still had a copy of what we had written. So that's where he was on the technology spectrum. That said, I'm sure I have neither the printed nor the electronic version still, which is unfortunate. The other thing I remember was him talking about his wife buying tons of stuff at Wal-Mart and that every time he went into town, she sent him with a pile of things for him to return. I'm not totally sure how that connected with marketing other than something along the lines of having liberal return policies makes people feel more comfortable making purchases or maybe something regarding the customer always being right. I'm not sure, and I don't care.

More than anything, this class highlights the specific danger of adjuncts and the overall wider danger of allowing professors to "design" their own courses. Without adjuncts and grad students performing a large percentage of the instruction that happens at universities, few students would ever be graduating. Tenure track professors teach a fair share, to be sure, although some more fair than others. But that's really a different discussion altogether. The important part is that you have part-timers come in and out without any real stake in the outcome of their students other than that in order to get another contract to teach again next year, they have to keep their teaching evaluations high.

Vastly inconsistent experiences for students that depend 95% on the instructor you happen to get lined up with that semester is just not right, whether or not they're on the tenure track. How much of a disadvantage was I at not having ever heard of Michael Porter until hitting my MBA program? If Porter is important to talk about in an undergrad marketing course, then the undergrad marketing course should have a fairly standard unit on his contributions to the world of business strategy and marketing, no matter who teaches it. The individual instructor adds his or her flair, of course, but stories about returning shoes to Wal-Mart do not flair make. The Pine Sol lady has flair. Uncle Drew has flair. Don't forget the flair, but only after you've built a foundation on the standards.

Positive and Negative Approaches to Creativity

I've seen both of these videos featuring Fred Rogers and David McCullough, Jr. being passed around Facebook and Twitter, not to mention local and national news stations. Based on the millions of hits each has received over the past week since they were posted on YouTube, most of the interwebs have probably already seen them. I just wanted to point out some comparisons between the two.

Interestingly enough, both videos were posted on June 7, and it is now one week later, June 14. I'll throw out the easy comparison this allows us to make, that over the one week they've been up, Mr. Rogers' video has pulled in over 4.3 million views, while Mr. McCullough's video is at 1.1 million views. The obvious popularity of Mr. Rogers' as someone so many of us grew up with is evident in the not-quite 4:1 view count between the two videos. Also interesting are the like/dislike stats. Mr Rogers' video has 25% more likes per view, with only two-thirds as many dislikes per view.

I think the biggest problem with Mr. McCullough's video is the overwhelming negative tone of it. They're both saying the same thing, that you should do things you love and be creative, but I'm guessing most people don't get through the negativity of the first eight or so minutes, before finally getting to the point in the last three or four minutes, where Mr. Rogers jumps right to the good stuff.

Mr. Rogers' video, of course, is more concise, much catchier, and to tell the truth much more creative, although quotes from Mr. McCullough would make a more attention-grabbing headline.

The fun part is how Mr. Rogers is used in a negative way in the second video as an example, along with Barney, of someone who is overly optimistic and coddling. I think you can be positive and provide a message that motivates people to be creative without being sickly sweet or patronizing about it. Take a look at the following excerpts from the two video and compare the differences.

When I quote here, I'm not including ellipses and brackets and quotation marks to do it all properly, just suffice it to say that I've chopped out portions that were less relevant, such as Mr. McCullough's diatribe against weddings and quoting the statistic that half of them will end up divorced and Mr. Rogers' piece about the scary cat eyes. Although, even there, I'll throw out the similarity that weddings and an unknown animal's eyes glowing in the dark are equally scary.

From Mr. Rogers:

Do you ever imagine things? Imagine. Every person that you see is somewhat different from every other person in the world. Some can do some things. Some can do others. Do you ever think of the many things you've learned to do? There are so many things to learn about in this world, and so many people who can help us learn. Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. It's good to be curious about many things. You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think, and they'll grow.

From Mr. McCullough:

None of you is special. You're not special. You're not exceptional. Contrary to what your U9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing 7th grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mr. Rogers, and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your paternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you, you are nothing special. Even if you're one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion, that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you. Your planet is not the center of its solar system; your solar system is not the center of its galaxy; your galaxy is not the center of the universe; in fact, astrophysicists assure us the universe has no center; therefore, you cannot be it. If everyone is special, then no one is.

If you've learned anything in your four years, I hope it's that education should be for, rather than material advantage, the exhilaration of learning. You've learned too, I hope, as Sophocles assured us, that wisdom is the chief element of happiness. Second is ice cream. I also hope you've learned enough to recognize how little you know - how little you know now. It's where you go from here that matters. Do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance. Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a a consequence, a gratifying byproduct; it's what happens when you're thinking about more important things.

Now, if someone would make a shorter, catchier, autotune version of Mr. McCullough's speech, we could really compare the two.

Corporate Finance

I love summer school. During each of my degree programs, I've had the chance to take classes during at least one summer, and it's always been great. There's something about the combination of the weather, fewer people around campus, and a compressed class schedule that all works together so well. I know they've made some changes to how the timing of summer classes happen, but when I went through it in my undergrad program, there were three four-week blocks, which could be combined or not. A class could be one of the four-week sessions, either of the two overlapping eight-week sessions, or a twelve-week session. The longest takes me back to my quarter system days; it still feels like a full class but is over before the burnout of a full semester class.

To make things even more interesting, they actually had a one-week workshop between two of blocks. So if you had a class that spanned the workshop, you got that week off. Of course, if you took a class during the workshop week, you were in there pretty much all day.

Corporate Finance was just one block, so we met for two hours a day every day for just under a month. We'd work through a month's worth of material in just four days and have a test every Friday. It was intense to say the least. I'm not sure how I ended up having almost all my business core courses in the summer, but I think it worked out nicely. As an MIS major, most of us felt more connected to the technology side of things than we did to the business side of things. That is a mistake, of course, as you really need to know both sides of the fence to truly be effective in the MIS field.

Overall, finance made a lot of sense to me. We talked a lot about time value of money. In fact, I think everything revolved around that. If we were talking about debt financing, it was about how much the debt really cost you over time. If it was about equity financing, it was the same. Do you want money now or money later? Assume a 10% rate of return... (oops).

Something that particularly sticks out to me was that I didn't buy a financial calculator for this course. I had a nice scientific calculator, but it didn't have the financial functions. Figuring it would be a waste to buy a calculator for just a few weeks, I made do with my scientific calculator. How? I memorized the formulas. How's that for gaming the system? At the time, and still thinking about it now, it felt/feels like I was cheating somehow. I don't know why, because back in the old days, they probably had to do it that way. You know, BC (before calculators). Of course, if I ever do financial calculations these days, I do them in Excel, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to get away with that on a test, especially given the relative rarity that laptops were at the time.

I have to throw out there, though, that for the last test, there was one of the formulas that was just wicked. Maybe even a wicked bear. There was just no way. I don't remember which it was, but it was just not going to be possible with my scientific calculator. But as much as I didn't want to buy a calculator for a few weeks' use, I was even less likely going to buy one to use for an hour (or more like 5 minutes during the hour-long test). So a classmate (Sean Zaugg, if I recall correctly...leave me a comment if you do Google yourself and this comes up...how are you and Rebecca doing, by the way?) and I sat in the back row, at my request, and the plan was that he would place his calculator on the table between the two of us so that I could grab his if needed for that particular formula. He'd clear the display after each problem he worked on, so if I grabbed it at any point in time, I wouldn't see any numbers, intentionally or unintentionally. I'd be nonchalant about it, and the professor would never notice that I picked up the other calculator by me for that one question on the test. Of course, as the best laid plans go...it worked flawlessly. Although again, I felt like I was cheating, because this time I was actually using a financial calculator on the test.

It all came around when my wife took the same class a few years later and bought a financial calculator, as recommended. The best laid plans...

The calculator was purchased with future dollars, however, so I'm going to say that I still came out ahead, assuming a 10% rate of return.

Search Results

It's always interesting to look at what people searched for to find you. I've written previously how a lot of people find my site looking for information about andragogy. I do try to talk about andragogy when I can, but I haven't gotten around to writing any real substantive posts on the topic lately. Looking at the numbers, there are still a lot of people out there looking it up, so I've still got it on my list to write more about.

Looking at some of the other ways people have found my site since the beginning of the year, I have to wonder if there are some other items worth discussion in greater detail:

• arizona buildings that are funny
  • here's one
• billiards business card
  • not recommended, as it's harder to hustle someone if they know you play enough to have business cards made
• beyond a reasonable doubt chart
  • wikipedia has a great chart on the subject
• i am an andragogy learner
  • aren't we all?
• i believe in mandatory education
  • okay, but wikipedia calls it compulsory education, so I'd appreciate it if you used the correct, crowd-sourced, neutral terminology
• things learned in calculus
  • N/A
• "reliability means to you"
  • as my grandpappy Ol' Reliable used to say...I don't recollect if I've ever mentioned Ol' Reliable before...
• aladdin city
  • in the original story, it's either Turkestan or China, but Agrabah in the Disney version (you know, where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face)
• explain the role of drivers in a network discussing their relationship to the nos and osi model
  • a driver is software that facilitates communication between the operating system and hardware; as such, it operates at the data link layer of the OSI model, particularly the MAC sublayer, although depending on the protocol and the operating system could function elsewhere; the NOS is an embedded operating system in a network device, operating at the network layer of the OSI model; so the driver effectively links the NOS and the physical layer; aren't you glad you asked?
• people that use #,,, with twitter are lame
  • in facebook, yes, but in twitter? sorry, the hashtag actually serves a useful purpose in twitter, primarily to make jokes instantly funnier #especiallywhenyourunabunchofwordstogetherwithit #idontknowaboutthecommas
• worlds most hardest math problem
  • I'll get back to you, but in the mean time maybe we can talk about your most hardest grammar problem
• blogs+wikipedia+mba+legal and ethics intext:mba -.org -.ca -.info -.gov -.edu
  • whoa, slow down there...so you want an mba-related site that includes the words blogs, wikipedia, legal, and ethics, but you don't want to include nonprofits, Canadian sites, informational sites, US government sites, or higher ed sites...okay, you got me...how can I help?