Socioeconomic Disparities Persist amongst Influenza Transmission Rates
Influenza (Flu) is a common viral respiratory illness that spreads seasonally in the United States each year. In 2020, a study was conducted by Casey M. Zipfel and Shweta Bansal to test weather health inequities were present in influenza transmission; it was found that inequities increase low socioeconomic status (SES) influenza transmission (Bansal and Zipfel, […]
The Bubonic Plague: A Discussion of Transitivity and Centrality
This past year, the world has seen grave damage at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries, small and large, actualized the insidious nature of the virus as it was able to transcend geographical boundaries with insurmountable magnitude and force. Despite its highly publicized nature and seemingly unparalleled scale, COVID-19 is not the first pandemic […]
Pre-Enrollment and the Market for Lemons
It is a relatively new phenomenon that Cornell gives the option for professors to upload syllabi to the course roster website prior to pre-enrollment. In fact, the Class of 2021 will be the be the first to graduate with this mechanism in place all four years of their undergraduate experience. The addition of this feature […]
Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Housing Bubbles, and Market of Lemons
On September 29, 2008, the worst day on Wall Street since the crash of 1987, people watched in awe as the value of the market disappears by the seconds. In the same month, two giants in the finance industry, Lehman Brothers and American International Group (AIG) disclosed that they have gone bankrupt. This unleashed a […]
Adoption of Augmented Reality is Dependent on Diffusion Through Enterprise Solutions
By now, we are all familiar with the impact smartphones had on society. They disrupted almost every aspect of our lives and there’s an innovative technology that has the potential to match that level of disruption. It is augmented reality smart glasses. Augmented reality overlays a digital GUI on top of our everyday world. Virtual […]
Health insurance companies don’t know about us, but we don’t know about healthcare markets
During our class discussion of asymmetric information and market for lemons, we talked about healthcare insurers and healthcare recipients, in which recipients have more information about their own health risks, and therefore have an advantage when purchasing health insurance. If the price is more than what they think it’s worth, they won’t pay for health […]
How Did Nespresso Successfully Penetrate the Global Market?
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/14/nespresso-coffee-capsule-pods-branding-clooney-nestle-recycling-environment Nestle’s full-year results show consistent mid single-digit growth for Nespresso Nespresso, an operating unit of the Nestle group, is one of the largest and the most successful brands that sell coffee capsules and coffee machines in the world. Although Nespresso operates in a highly competitive market with an increasing number of direct and indirect […]
The “infodemic”, echo chambers, and clusters
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/12/844851/the-coronavirus-is-the-first-true-social-media-infodemic/ This article talks about how in 2020, along with the coronavirus pandemic, there is an “infodemic”, the overload of information. They specifically talk about a couple who had to quarantine in a hotel for 14 days, and all they had to do was read the news. Ofcourse, when COVID was in the beginning […]
COVID-19 Deniers Explained Through Diffusion and SIR Model
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-disbelief-saddles-health-care-workers-with-another-challenge-11606991401 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of people worldwide. While millions are suffering from the disease there is a considerable amount of people who deny its existence as a whole. Despite scientific explanations, it is still difficult to gain a consensus on how to combat the disease. The article, “Covid-19 Disbelief Saddles […]
Diffusion of Innovation: Spotify Put iTunes to Shame
I remember when I was eight years-old, I begged my older brother for weeks to buy Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” on iTunes so that I could listen to it on the iPod we shared. While paying up to $2 per song was standard when I was growing up, today the practice feels ridiculously […]
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