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Also, this sort of short evaluation seems like it wouldn't mitigate that much PR risk. It may even increase bad press if things go poorly and people point to it as an indication that they knew it wasn't ready.
If you check out the email archives [1], you'll see that Damodaran wrote this in the first message: "1. Preclass work: I know that some of you are worried about the class but relax! If you can add, subtract, divide and multiply, you are pretty much home free… In are you have forgotten your accounting, I have added my version (which would probably not be approved of by your accounting professor) of an accounting class to my website: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/webcastac... If you want to get a jump on the class, you can go to the class web page: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/equity.ht... "
[1] http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/eqemail.h...
If you don't have time for the full course, I've also heard good things about Damodaran's Little Book of Valuation.
You would hope the UC system would already have a very good understanding of the value of all of the elements they utilize in admissions decisions. If they don't know the value, why are they still using it?
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/04/663629750/legacy-admissions-o...
Reduced, but not eliminated. People still smoke in far too many public spaces in the US. Try standing at the curb outside baggage claim at SFO or SJC. Or, outside many large office buildings.
The only place smoking should be legal is in the privacy of your own single-family detached home. Even then, only if you don't have any minors living there.
While some re/code stories do generate great discussions, most don't. This move is a way for them to avoid reinforcing the feeling that there aren't many readers.
Disclosure - I'm a former oDesk employee.
If this, as the article suggests, is the interface where doctors go to opt-out of sending surveys, how can Practice Fusion claim that doctors knew what was happening? The interface seems intentionally designed to obscure what's happening. Note the text reads "[x] Enable follow-up messages" http://b-i.forbesimg.com/kashmirhill/files/2013/10/in-produc...
The patient-facing survey is hardly better. http://b-i.forbesimg.com/kashmirhill/files/2013/10/patient-r...