Author: knutson4

Quoted: It’s probably fine for watching a Netflix movie, but the service could struggle if other people in the home were online at the same time, said Barry Orton, a recently retired telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s a Band-Aid approach, at best, and it’s an awfully expensive Band-Aid,” Orton said.

Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor also at the Wisconsin School of Business, comes at the question from an economic perspective. “It makes a lot of sense that Google would be interested in administering healthcare data,” he says. He suggests their expertise in data storage, data access and data analysis would allow them to provide value in a variety of ways, such as mining large data sets of medical records to find new treatment patterns.

Marjorie Rosenberg, a professor in the Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, was also quoted.

Quoted: “The primary effect is supply and demand,” says Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Certainly there’s a plan to have a lot of roses available. However, they also know the demand is very high, so the market can absorb some additional price, which helps the growers get through those times of the year when there isn’t such a high demand.”

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus law professor and researcher who has assisted with cases involving airport transportation issues, said he believes ride-share services such as Uber and Lyft need some sort of regulation.

Quoted: James Hurley, a UW-Madison professor and expert on groundwater contamination, said Janesville’s approach is adequate.