on NBC Nightly News, on the Oxycontin story

Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/this-washington-city-devastated-by-opioid-epidemic-is-suing-pharma-894383171965

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The Nightly News broadcast version (You will see why like radio so much —
I look better on radio — and you might notice the Marketplace Morning
Report coffee mug — the NBC field producer is a fan of MMR and let me keep
the mug on my desk):

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/this-washington-city-devastated-by-opioid-epidemic-is-suing-pharma-894383171965

The NBC News web version:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-hit-unprecedented-lawsuit-washington-n731571
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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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on the lack of women in board of director positions

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fearless-girl-statue-stares-wall-streets-iconic-bull-45992267

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via AP, in several outlets, including:

abc News:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fearless-girl-statue-stares-wall-streets-iconic-bull-45992267

Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/-fearless-girl-statue-stares-down-wall-street-s-iconic-bull

The UK’s The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4294032/Fearless-Girl-statue-stares-Wall-Streets-iconic-bull.html

and a new one for me, The Hollywood Reporter — the only way I’ll ever be
mentioned there:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fearless-girl-statue-stares-down-wall-streets-bull-honor-international-womens-day-984674

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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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in WIRED, on Google’s Waze in your car

Link: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/waze-cars/

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Why Google’s Waze is doing a deal
with the auto industry’s SmartDeviceLink consortium to connect Waze to cars and the data cars produce. It’s all about that data.

“But the company doesn’t even need to know what it’s going to do with this data yet. “This move is a very Google-y thing,” says Erik Gordon, who studies entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “This is a move that says, ‘Wow, data first. Just let us at the data.’”

And while this kind of info collection can sound freaky on its face, Gordon believes the public is pretty comfortable with giving up their personal information in exchange for a deal. “Every time I thought, ‘This is where consumers are going to put their foot down to protect their privacy,’ they don’t put their foot down,” Gordon says. “They open their arms: ‘Let me give you more information if you give me a $0.50 coupon.’”

Here’s the link:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/waze-cars/

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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
USA

in an Associated Press story on drug prices

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/the-associated-press-drugmakers-pledge-restraint-but-prices-will-still-soar.html

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Because it is an AP story, it’s in many outlets. Here are a few — pick
your favorite.

CNBC:

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/the-associated-press-drugmakers-pledge-restraint-but-prices-will-still-soar.html

Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-drug-prices-drugmakers-20170227-story.html

Modern Healthcare:

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170227/NEWS/170229923

US News & World Report:

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-02-27/drugmakers-pledge-restraint-but-prices-will-still-soar
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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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