Friday, July 14, 2017

Spiritual Leadership in Business: Transcending the Ethical

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The spiritual business leader who searches for personal and profes-sional integration is the chief beneficiary of this booklet, which can a...

Essays on the Financial Crisis

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The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadersh...

Essays on Two Federal Empires

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This collection of essays suggests that the E.U. and U.S. are both cases of modern federalism at the empire political-level and scale. Dist...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Bribery at Barclays: Can an Unethical Culture Be Changed?

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Amid the financial crisis in 2008, Barclays raised $15 billion from Qatar and other investors. The infusion of capital saved the European b...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

E.S.G. in the Boardroom: A Recipe for Confusion

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What would business do without its faddish buzzwords? Is the bottom-line really so boring? Transformational leadership was once in vague, ...

The E.U. Goes After Google: Where Was the U.S.?

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In fining Google a record 2.4 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in June, 2017, for unfairly favoring its advertisers in its online shoppi...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Religion as Metaphysics: A Category Mistake

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The claim that God is real, or even that God's existence is reality, is problematic chiefly because it incurs the category mistake of t...

Hedge Fund Set to Hack Nestlé Up: A Case of Sensationalistic Over-Kill

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Does the fact that an earnings-per-share figure has not meaningfully improved over, say, five years justify an overhaul pushed by a hedge-f...

Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Outstripping the Planet’s Absorption: A Major Turning-Point

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The human species has reached such a size—and with the population of Africa expected in 2017 to double by 2050 from an incredulous and obli...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Apparent Gains in Corporate Governance Accountability as the U.S. Economy Shifts

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In 2016, Sacred Heart University purchased G.E.’s headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut for $31.5 million. Gone were the Persian rugs and...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Experience of Transcendence: The Core of Religion and Spirituality

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Transcendence beyond the limits of human cognition, and thus reason and even religious   beliefs  is notoriously difficult for the human mi...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Spiritual Leadership in Business: Transcending the Ethical

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In this essay, I provide a synopsis of my booklet on spiritual leadership in business. In the text, I suggest that while it may convenient ...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

The U.S. Pulls Out of the Paris Climate Accord: North-South Redistribution as Unfair

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The Paris Climate Accord, President Trump announced on June 1, 2017, “is very unfair at the highest level to the United States.” This goes...

ECB Poised to Approve Italian Bailout of Monte dei Paschi Bank: An Instance of Federal-State Collusion?

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Under the E.U.’s banking law enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, the state governments “are not supposed to inject fresh taxpayer mon...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Goldman Sachs’ Venezuelan Bonds: Power Behind the Throne

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Goldman Sachs paid about $865 million for $2.8 billion worth of bonds in May, 2017. This represents 31 cents on the dollar and translates i...