Reframing Business Education
Whether bearish or bullish about the economy, there is no denying that business and management education are in a state of turmoil. The “new normal” will likely be something we’ve never seen before. A...
View ArticleBuilding to Last: The Eternal Impact of Our Earthly Work
Good and Dirty Work by John Terrill On Discovery Channel's popular show, Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe, the star and narrator, travels the United States serving in some of the most back-breaking, grungiest...
View ArticleA New Kind of Equity for Wall Street Reform
Investment banking has suffered profoundly in the popular press. There are good reasons for the outcry. Wall Street bankers played a significant role in the world’s financial meltdown by expanding the...
View ArticleBlackberrys, Donuts, and Rethinking Shareholder Value
Harvard Business Review in its Jan/Feb 2010 issue published an illuminating article by Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. In The Age of Customer...
View ArticleLimitations to Social Responsible Funds
Investing in “socially responsible” funds, as Jeff Keenan noted in his earlier blog, is an option. But a challenge seems to be the criteria for establishing such funds. Some simply focus on avoiding...
View ArticleA New Measure for Social Responsible Investing
In our last blog we indicated that we may need to revisit the criteria that are often utilized for social responsible investing. As an alternative, we suggest a baseline decision criterion for...
View ArticleInner Transformation through Daily Work
(by John Terrill, Director, Center for Integrity in Business) I recently came across a thoughtful poem on the subject of work by Ben Witherington, Ph.D., the Amos Professor of New Testament for...
View ArticleChanging the World Advent Style
To encourage the philanthropic spirit so readily experienced this time of year, Kelly Greene recently penned an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “How to Change the World … Whatever the Size of...
View ArticleSnack Chips and Lessons in Environmental Consciousness
Sometimes noise can be a serious distraction. Frito-Lay found this out the hard way when customers began complaining about the firm’s biodegradable SunChips bag. Although they liked the concept of a...
View ArticleLooking for a Job? Consider Writing a Personal Biography
by John Terrill and Donovan Richards We all want to grab the attention of someone we hope to impress, and we’re tempted to do just about anything to be noticed. Remember Elle Wood’s pink and scented...
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