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…“improve the value they provide to both taxpayers and graduates…That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts majors like anthropology, women’s studies and German language and literature.”Can Humanities Survive the Budget Cuts?The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in…www.yahoo.com Ranked: Median Student Debt for a U.S....

Pasted below is a series of blogs that I wrote on how you can learn job saving technology... I recently had a student interview with several companies for supply chain internships.  Most of the companies were Fortune 500 types that placed a premium on business data analytics and the ability to use Excel in some very advanced ways.  We actually require all of our SCM majors to take a Predictive...

“In ISM’s 2023 Salary Survey, the reported overall average salary remained steady, dipping imperceptibly to $123,523, while the median salary rose 5.8 percent year over year, to $105,795. Except for 2021, average salary has mostly increased over the past five years for both women and men, though the pay gap between men and women persists, now at 25 percent.” https://lnkd.in/gwCWhhcE. Full disclosure, I had to look up the word:Im·per·cep·ti·bly/ˌimpərˈseptəblē/ adverb·  in a way...

FREE resources for Info on Suppliers, Customers, & Prospects. A WMU MBA Alum from our Taiwan Program & working in B2B industrial sales, offered the following list of free websites as a resource for research on competitors, customer supply chains, & prospect contact info. Many of these links may already be in your resource list, but if not, they can be helpful:https://lnkd.in/gV786uxYhttps://www.datanyze.com/https://lnkd.in/gqEUT3BBhttps://lnkd.in/gV2KB5dahttps://www.apollo.io/https://lnkd.in/gqR4ZPst Students, you can use this stuff for class....

Nice SCM salary report summary: https://lnkd.in/dTneTGgw. “Supply chain pros are making an avg of nearly $30K more/yr than the avg American, & are generally happy in their careers (ASCM)...The report found that the avg median supply chain salary is $98,570 (including base & additional compensation), up more than 3% from the previous year’s survey. The average median pay in the U.S. in Q4 of 2022 was equivalent to $56,420 annually, according...

MEMORANDUM To: MGMT 280-0 Students From: Sime Curkovic Subject:  HW assignment Date Assigned: xxxx Due Date:  April 24, 2023 Make/Buy HW (this is not a memo HW).  Let's pretend you are a junior buyer. Suppose that a make-buy decision is being made for an injection molded plastic part. In other words, do you make it yourself or do you outsource it to a supplier? The fixed costs of making this...

Students:Feedback from former student on consulting jobs after graduation...Would you find a consulting job after graduation appealing? Hopefully, we are training our students to become consultants…to their own organization (i.e., problem-solvers).Hi Sime (from my former SCM student), First of all I want to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to work on research with you because that was a significant selling point when I interviewed for my current job...

Subject: Read: People that read a lot make way more money (2.3 times more?!!!!)  Students: Here is an astounding fact - readers make more money - a lot more! It's true. According to a number of studies*, business people who read at least 7 business books a year earn over 2.3 times more than people who read only 1 book per year. Why exactly do readers earn so much more money?...

Python is coming to Excel?!… Wow, as a supply chain professor that pushes data analytics on our students, I am trying to make sense of this. I suspect this is going to be a VERY big deal for our CIS faculty and students as they have been waiting for this kind of support for…2 decades? While Excel is powerful, it hasn’t provided “native” tools for adv analytics like ML. By...

Believe it or not: It is actually now time to start applying & interviewing for 2024 summer internships! Companies get budgets for internships approved months ahead of time & they often recruit nationally for the best talent. Believe it or not: It is actually now time to start applying & interviewing for 2024 summer internships! Companies get budgets for internships approved months ahead of time & they often recruit nationally...