A pleasant surprise:

Past winners:
2007 Award for Best Paper in 2006
Bundling, Unbundling and Pricing of Multiform Products: The Case of Magazine Content by R. Venkatesh and Rabikar Chatterjee (20/2)
Runners-up
A Field Experiment to Assess the Interruption Effect of Pop-Up Promotions by Wendy Moe (20/1)
Designing Marketplaces of the Artificial with Consumers in Mind: Four Approaches to Understanding Consumer Behavior in Electronic Environments by Steven Bellman, Eric Johnson, Gerald Lohse & Naomi Mandel (20/1)

2006 Award for Best Paper in 2005
Can We Predict Customer Lifetime Value by Edward Malthouse and Robert Blattberg (19/1)
Runners-up
Who Are the Multichannel Shoppers and How Do They Perform? Correlates of Multichannel Shopping Behavior by V. Kumar and Rajkumar Venkatesan (19/2)
Collaborating to Create: The Internet as Platform for Customer Engagement in Product Innovation by Mohanbir Sawhney, Gianmario Verona and Emanuela Prandelli (19/4)
Consumers in a Multichannel Environment: Product Utility, Process Utility and Channel Choice by Sridhar Balasubramanian, Rajagopal Raghunathan and Vijay Mahajan (19/2)

2005 Award for Best Paper in 2004
Capturing Evolving Visit Behavior in Clickstream Data by Wendy Moe and Peter Fader (18/1)

2004 Award for Best Paper in 2003
Customers as Assets by Sunil Gupta and Donald Lehmann (17/1)

2003 Award for Best Paper in 2002
Intentional Social Action in Virtual Communities by Richard Bagozzi and Utpal Dholakia (16/2)

Found from here.

A couple of abbreviations: ‘TST’=Tsim Sha Tsui, and ‘CWB’=Causeway Bay.

Here’s a set of recommendations from Spike over at Hongkietown.

I’d add:

Tai Woo, East Ocean. Tack Hsin and Hoi Tin — four chains all over HK, very competent and reasonably priced Cantonese seafood palaces and decent dim sum.

Little Sheep — China-based chain famous for northern style hotpot.

Under Bridge Spicy Crab — as the name says.

Xiao Nan Guo — Shanghai-based chain

and reading the Cha Xio Bao blog for lots of great, off-the-beaten path tips.

Mr Tall adds:

I’ve done a bit of googling about for some specifics. I certainly haven’t tried all of these places, and if you know of one that’s moved/closed/terrible, please let us know.

• You can find Tai Woo restaurant branches as follows:Causeway Bay Branch:
  27 Percival Street.
  Tel: 2893 0822; 2893 9882

  Shau Kei Wan Branch:
  192 - 198, Shau Kei Wan Road, Sai Wan Ho

  Central Branch:
  92 & 100 Caine Road, Central

  Tsim Sha Tsui Branch:
  14 – 16 Hillwood Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

• There are East Ocean branches as follows:5/FL., Miramar Shopping Ctr.,
  132 Nathan Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2317 8889

  Level 3-302, New World Centre,
  Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2367 1133

  Shop 3202, Harbour City,
  Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, H.K.
  Phone: 2956 2882

  B1 East Ocean Ctr., 98 Granville Road,
  Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2723 8128

  2/FL., Sun Hung Kai Centre,
  30 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2827 9938

  3/FL., Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road,
  Wanchai, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2827 8887

  5/FL., CITIC Tower, 1 Tim Mei Avenue,
  Central, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2877 2211

  Shop G201 The Repulse Bay,
  109 Repulse Bay Road, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2803 1882

• Now how about some Tack Hsin outlets:1-13 Sugar Street
  Causeway Bay HK
  2894 8899

  84-86 Morrison Hill Road, Tsung Tsin Mansion
  Wanchai, HK
  2572 0898

  Shop 5, G/F, Pearl Court
  2-12 Holland Street, HK
  2872 6168

  2/F Peninsula Centre, 67 Mody Road
  TST East, Kowloon,HK
  2721 8102

  4/F Chong Hing Square
  601 Nathan Road, Kowloon, HK
  2780 0182

  3 Tak Hing Street
  Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, HK
  2723 2646

• There’s a Hoi Tin restaurant on:Elizabeth Bld, Causeway Bay
  Tel: 2891 3886.
• There are Little Sheep hotpot restaurants as follows:Wanchai Hot Pot
  Causeway Bay Plaza, Wan Chai
  Tel: 2893 8318

  Mongkok Hot Pot
  16 Kar Lo street, ground floor/1st floor
  Tel: 2396 8816

  Tsim Sha Tsui Hot Pot
  26 Kimberley Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui
  Tel: 2722 7633

  Tsuen Wan Hot Pot
  City Landmark, Tsuen Wan
  Tel: 2940 7678

• Now, for the marvelously-named ’Bridge under spicy crab’ restaurant:Shop C, G/F., Wah Fat Mansion, 405-419 Lockhart Road,
  Wan Chai, Hong Kong

  and/or

  Shop 6-9, G/F., 429 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
  Tel: 2893 1289 or 2573 7698

• And finally, a Xiao Nan Guo outlet:12th floor, Shell Tower, Causeway Bay (i.e. near Times Square)
  Tel: 2894 8899

Among the 3150 signed, over 1500 are professors. I guess they don’t mind to have one more professor signing up.

Which segment are you in?

Looks like we should go to the creative class that represent less than 1/3 work force, but gets 1/2 the total money.

Interestingly, I don’t need to stand there to take one picture per hour to create this.

Black and White Picture.  As usual, click on the picture to see the larger version.

The more I learn about the earthquake, the more I feel sad.

This tragedy happened on the second day of the mother’s day. In today’s TV program, there was a female police officer who lost her mother and her 2-yr old daughter at the same time. She won’t have another mother’s day to celebrate with her mother, and her daughter won’t celebrate it with her any more. She worked from the minute of earthquake till she fainted while helping others.

There was a doctor who traveled from Guangzhou to Sichuan with his family. Eight of his family members were buried, and he decided to stay in Sichuan to help people in need.

Three high school students came to the program. They came to share the terrible experience and share how they survived. A girl jumped from the window on the 3rd floor, and after that, the whole building collapsed. She had no information about her parents when she went on the program. Then her parents saw her on TV. I’m so happy for them.

Another girl accepted the interview after the fund raising program. She does not know anything about the status quo of her parents. Her village got wiped out. No one came out yet after the earthquake, and rescue team could not reach the village yet. She did not cry on the program, she was amazingly calm and explained what happened very well. Li Yixue, you have my sincerest wishes! Stand strong!

1. Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org

2. Mercy Corps: http://www.mercycorps.org

How can I not write something about it?

These days I’ve been watching TV from quite a number of stations for the coverage. Each time someone gets saved, I truly feel the joy, for the ones saved, and for their family/relatives/friends.

It is horrible even to imagine that the death toll jumped quickly to 20,000. According to some estimates, the final number will be at least 50,000. Indeed, an area of 100,000 square km (a little more than 10^12 square feet) is considered to be severely damaged, that’s one percent of the area of China.

Some villages in Sichuan got totally wiped out, a single village can have more than 1,000 death. Some schools have several hundred students burried alive. I don’t believe God, as no one would allow this to happen if he still claims to be a savior. I do hope there is God, as these innocent people will rest in peace in heaven.

Just now, someone was saved after spending 100 hours under ground. Despite my joy, I feel terrible about those who are still down there, hoping to be saved. Time is their biggest enemy now. In this country with a 1.3 billion population, at this moment, there is just no way to use the collective effort to save those people.

I’ve been thinking about how to help these days. Jade and I will donate money to the Red Cross, but other than that, there is really nothing I can help. You feel the frustration and hopelessness at this moment when your enemy is time.

Gandhi said: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” However, in this case, I don’t know where to start.

I remember sitting in front of the TV during Katrina, worrying about the lives in the dome. At the wrath of the nature, lives are so vulnerable. I remember feeling the same frustration when I saw the horrible pictures on TV. This time, I feel happy when Japan, Korea, Russia sent their team of experts to help with the rescue. It really does not matter how many people they can send over or how much money they can raise for this event, what matters is that they can witness and share this tragic moment with the Chinese.

I’d like to upload this picture from Katrina. That’s what I want to say to the earth quake.

I travel quite often when I do not teach.

Each time before traveling, I have to think hard what to pack and put a list of things on paper. It is a waste of time and paper, the environmentally friendly me finally decided to compile this list so I can come back to update and use it later.

Before the trip:

• Visa application
• Currency exchange
• Prepare audio books for a foreign language
• Book flights/hotels
• Print itinerary
• Print contact information
• Make sure to have copies of travel documents
• Recharge batteries for camera, cellphone, iPod

In the luggage:

• Medicine for fever, sleeping pills for jet lag, vitamins
• Suit, shirts, pants, tie, belt, shoes to go with suit
• T-shirts, Sweater, socks, underwear
• Swimming gears
• Umbrella

In the handbag/backpack:

• Passport
• Map, itinerary
• Charger for cellphone, camera
• DC Partner for photos
• Power socket adapter
• Umbrella?
• Some plastic bags
• Pen, paper
• Some readings for the flight

On the morning of flight:

• Call Taxi
• Eye glasses
• Watch
• Pack toothbrush, toothpaste, dental floss, Listerine, razor, shaving cream,
• Wallet, credit cards, ID card, membership cards
• Driver’s license
• iPod

When traveling with kids:

• hand wash
• Bib
• Tylenol, Motrin, Thermometer
• Stroller
• Diaper

I usually have a few bags with me when going out:

• Luggage for check-in
• Camera bag
• Laptop bag
• Probably a backpack

This is a photo I took recently. It has a lot of interesting components that fascinated me: lines, squares, colors, musical instrument, interesting face…