We Realize You Have a Choice of Airline (Sort of), and So We Thank You For Flying American-United-Southwest-Delta

Posted on May 8, 2013 | One Comment
We Realize You Have a Choice of Airline (Sort of), and So We Thank You For Flying American-United-Southwest-Delta

For those who were troubled by the wave of airline mergers over the past year, you can stop worrying about whether airfares will go up; airfares have gone up.

Archivist’s Pick: The Birth of the Theory of Business

Posted on Feb 28, 2013 | No Comments
Archivist’s Pick: The Birth of the Theory of Business

Among the most influential articles that Peter Drucker ever wrote for Harvard Business Review was one titled “The Theory of the Business.”

What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading

Posted on Feb 26, 2013 | No Comments
What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading

Recent selections from around the web that, we think, would have caught Peter Drucker’s eye.

Lights Flicker on the Nook

Posted on Feb 25, 2013 | No Comments
Lights Flicker on the Nook

Sadly for Barnes & Noble, the people of the book are not necessarily the people of the Nook.

The Reemergence of Mergers

Posted on Feb 15, 2013 | 4 Comments
The Reemergence of Mergers

If an English gentleman hunting foxes is, in Oscar Wilde’s formulation, “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable,” then the prospective merger of American Airlines with U.S. Airways should perhaps be …

Samsung Judo

Posted on Feb 13, 2013 | 2 Comments
Samsung Judo

The mobile phone industry has two giants today: Apple and Samsung. Apple claims about 72% of industry earnings, Samsung the rest. No one else is turning a profit.

MOOCs to the Rescue?

Posted on Feb 8, 2013 | 11 Comments
MOOCs to the Rescue?

If you’re fed up with our current higher education system—its costs, its inefficiencies, its elitism—then maybe you’re rooting for the MOOCs.

That’s the Ticket

Posted on Feb 4, 2013 | No Comments
That’s the Ticket

Ticketmaster—loved by some, hated by many and used by nearly all—has long reigned over ticket sales.

Why This Blog Post Was Not Outsourced to China

Posted on Jan 11, 2013 | 9 Comments
Why This Blog Post Was Not Outsourced to China

After years of outsourcing much of their work, more and more American companies now appear to be insourcing it.

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