The Other Side of Bad News

The Other Side of Bad News

I arrived home from work to find my husband uncharacteristically sitting at the dining room table, waiting for me to walk through the door. He said, “Sweetheart, I think there is something wrong with me.”My heart dropped as I noticed the left-sided Horner syndrome that had developed overnight and as I watched his face turn bright red when he lifted his left arm. He complained that the left side...

The Good News and the Bad News

There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...

The NPV of Bad News

We explore the effects of individualand network-level negative word-of-mouth on the firm’s profits using an agent-based model and specifically, an extended small world analysis. We include both permanent strong ties within the social network, and changing, often random, weak ties with other networks. The effect of negative word-of-mouth on the Net Present Value (NPV) of the firm was found to be...

hiv/aids good news and bad news

Breaking bad news.