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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Swiss Vote to Restrict Immigration: Direct Democracy in Action

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On February 9, 2014, the Swiss voted in a non-binding referendum by a narrow margin (50.3%) in favor of immigration quotas and an end to “...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Congressional Statements on Obamacare: A Crack in Representative Democracy

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Even as democracy has many virtues, the political system is not without its own weaknesses. In times of economic crisis, such as Germany in...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia: “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”

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In the weeks leading us to watch the Olympics, I suspect I was not alone in thinking, “I just don't like what I see here." Why w a...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

From Ground Zero to 1776 Feet

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The glass exterior gives the Freedom Tower a look of unity, such as that which occurred on September 11, 2001. (Image Source: USA Today ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Target Intimidating Customers by Impersonating Police: Nietzsche on Weakness Seeking to Dominate

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In the PBS series Downton Abbey, the Victorian countess, magnificently played by Maggie Smith, delivers a reverberating line as fit for m...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Corporate Social Responsibility at Walmart

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Is it not an outright oxymoron for a company such as Walmart to pinch pennies when it comes to its non-supervisory employees even as it is ...

Strategic Leadership: Disentangling Strategy and Leadership

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Strategic leadership relates an organization’s differentiated core competencies to its ideologies, identity, mission and view of the macro ...

Sun Tzu's Art of War: A Recipe for Leadership in Business

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According to Master Sun in The Art of War , “Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.”...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Google Jettisons Motorola: A Jack of All Trades Is a Master of None

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Managers tasked with the overall management of a company may thirst for additional lines of business, particularly those that are related t...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The State of the Union Address: The Presidency as Visionary or Bureaucratic Leadership?

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Just after President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address, CNN found that among the Americans who had watched the speech, 76 percent had...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The State of the Union Address: The Presidency as Presiding or Partisan?

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On The O’Reilly Factor on the evening of Obama’s health-care “summit” at the White House in 2009, Bill O’Reilly told Laura Ingrahams that ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

The Mammoth Indoor Mall: A Dinosaur or a Reusable Shell?

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One of the pitfalls in maintaining a general gaze at the long-term trend toward e-commerce at the expense of "brick-and-mortar" s...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Online Sales: Breaking the Egg

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Was the 2013 holiday season really a turning point in terms of online purchases? Can a business environment change so drastically from one ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Incentives at EBay to Exploit Its Golden Goose

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When is it ok not to worry about a corporate board or management exploiting an institutional conflict-of-interest? I contend in another ess...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Japanese Dolphin Hunt: Fishing or Killing?

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Is a dolphin like a cow? Both are mammals. Both breathe air. So did Japanese government officials have a point when they rebuffed Caroline ...
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