Oil Boom Hits Glendive College

Inside Glendive College 

The oil boom has caused the Glendive College a serious disadvantages. One occasion is that the hotels and motels around the college have increased their rental prices from $400 to $800~$1000. This caused college students to find shelters outside the college more difficult. Also Glendive College is struggling with hiring staff members.

Due to the increased material prices, this brings serious problems from Montana to North Dakota. for example, professors are not willing to come to teach in the places, and these worries the villages for their near future.The jobs are being vacant.
Also the students have to go work at the oil boom instead of attending college right after high school graduation. However, there are some upsides, which they get good jobs in the oil region era.
These days the colleges are giving solutions for the oil boom, and these come out to be great solutions. For example, college administrators are talking to an oil field company to do safety training in the Dawson Campus this summer. Employees taking the training would live in the dorms, which usually are empty in the summer. On the other hand, there are students who work fully at the oil boom, and also take college courses living in the campus. Despite the problems,  the boom has brought in more state money to campus at a time when other parts of the country are cutting higher budgets. And the boom has created silent opportunities for the school also.

Chinese Reunion

China a new U.S.A
China is on there hands about their power among the world. China's efforts to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dragged on for 15 years, long enough to “turn black hair white”, as Zhu Rongji, China’s former prime minister, put it. (His own hair remained Politburo-black throughout.)
Yet the bet paid off for China. It has blossomed into the world’s greatest exporter and second-biggest importer. The marriage of foreign know-how, Chinese labour and the open, global market has succeeded beyond anyone’s predictions.
It is instead China’s trading partners who now contemplate its WTO membership with furrowed brows.
Too big to be a bystander—or to be kept out
But China’s sins should be put into perspective. In terms of global trade consumers everywhere have gained from cheap Chinese goods. Chinese growth has created a huge market for other countries’ exports. And China’s remaining barriers are often exaggerated. It is more open to imports than Japan was at the same stage of development, more open to foreign direct investment than South Korea was until the 1990s. Its tariffs are capped at 10% on average; Brazil’s at over 30%. And in China, unlike India, you can shop at Walmart, most of the time.
As for the hurdles foreign firms face in China, they are disgraceful—but sadly no worse than in other developing countries. So celebrate China’s ten years in the WTO: we are all richer because of it. But, when it comes to trade, China’s rulers now badly need to grow up. Their cheating is harming their own consumers and stoking up protectionism abroad. That could prove to be economic self-harm on an epic scale.

China shows and increase of PED, YED and an income in every other resources. It is really surprising, but also wondering how long will the increase last?

Iphone's in Trouble?

Samsung or Iphone?

Six days after Samsung began airing its Galaxy Nexus ads mocking Apple's customer base -- the Korean conglomerate's "buzz" started rising and the iPhone's drifting down.

"Samsung has just edged past the iPhone in consumer perception in the US (adults 18+), likely powered by their new set of ads bashing the Apple fanboys who camp out for hours to buy the new iPhone."

Samsung mocks Apple's customer base

YouGov's Brand Index tracks the public perception of some 1,100 consumer brands -- including Apple -- by interviewing 5,000 people every weekday and asking them "If you've heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?" Scores can range from 100 to -100.
The recent shifts in the public's perception of Apple and Samsung, according to YouGov, were driven mostly by adults aged 50 and up.
This is not the first time Apple's brand has taken a beating in YouGov's index. In the spring of 2010 -- at the height of the Gizmodo affair, the Flash brouhaha and a Jon Stewart take down, its score fell from a high of 80.2 to a low of 66.1, prompting the New York Times to ask "Has Apple lost its cool?"
 It is becoming really interesting, and the demand and supply  curve of the Iphones are frequently having an decrease in it. So what will the Apple do for their future?

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Coffee talk with the newest Starbucks board Member

Clara Shih is one of the Starbucks board members. In the puropose of both youth and social media know-how they showed it. As a 29 year old CEO of Hearsay Social, and they had a few conversations with Shih.
Fortune: Why are you joining the Starbucks board?
Shih: I've been a huge fan of Starbucks for a long time and when they approached me I was thrilled not only because it's such an admired brand, but also because of how much it has invested in social media. I said yes because two years ago we started Hearsay Social to establish a new era of enterprise software around what we believed was a new business imperative, and this board appointment is a validation of that dream.
That sort of sounds like you're hoping this board seat will be a PR boon for Hearsay. Accurate?
No, that's not why I'm doing it. I just mean that this is my first public board appointment, and it is a validation of the importance of the type of work Hearsay is doing. There may or may not be PR benefits to Hearsay, but they weren't part of my decision-making process.
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from the Starbucks board next year. Do you view yourself as the designated "social media" replacement?
I'm a huge fan of Sheryl's personally and worked with her in the past at Google (GOOG), but I don't see myself as her replacement.
Start-up CEOs aren't known for having much free time. Did you have any concerns that the board seat would become a time burden?
It is something I've thought a lot about. I've gotten better over time at saying 'no' to things, but when this opportunity came up I knew it was one I couldn't turn down. Not since starting Hearsay Social have I felt this excited about an opportunity.
Are you interested in taking other public board seats?
It's hard to say in a general sense, except that I do think there need to be more women and young people on public boards.
Any worries that Hearsay Social might now have trouble getting business from a Starbucks competitor?
It hasn't really crossed my mind. Obviously I'll have to recuse myself on any Starbucks board business that involves Hearsay Social, and I assume any other world-class organization would respect that separation.
Do you get some sort of special card now that gives you free coffee?
Not that anyone's told me about yet.

From these we can learn that Shih can handle her job very well, and succeed as a great CEO, if she manages it well.  It is really interesting, and looking forward to the future outcomes.