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Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher. Rand’s Philosophy Rand’s Objectivist philosophy — which calls for facts over feelings, reason over mysticism, individual over state, and selfishness before altruism — wouldn’t...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Alan Greenspan, Objectivist, Kent, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, BNET Briefing, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-02-24

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Weighty gig for Wallace.(Randall Wallace to write script for the movie Atlas Shrugged)(Brief article)
Writer-director Randall Wallace wasn't about to shrug off the chance to adapt Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for the bigscreen. Wallace, the "Braveheart" scribe known for taking on epic themes, will begin penning the script immediately for Lionsgate. ...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Randall
Research articles 2006-10-18
Atlas shrugged - Rand McNally's StreetFinder 1996, DeLorme's Street Atlas USA 3.0 CD atlases - Software Review - Evaluation
If you do your own sales, marketing, and client contact and you don't own a CD atlas, this is a good time to change your ways. Rand McNally, the nation's oldest map maker, and DeLorme, famous for its street guides and city guides, have each turned out powerful atlas CDs...
Tags: Rand McNally & Co.
Research articles 1996-02-01
Ayn Rand: Still spouting.(philosopher, author)
"AYN RAND changed my life." So goes the phrase that, time and again, begins the story of how reading the 1,100-page saga, "Atlas Shrugged", put the world into perspective for a teenager in crisis. "Atlas Shrugged" was pu "AYN RAND changed my life." So goes the...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand
Research articles 1999-11-27
Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCain
Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCainRE: Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCainWhat the heck is wrong with large corporations? Do you all prefer working on a friggin farm or something? How about company sponsored health care? Don't like that either? You prefer county health?...
Tags: Government, Corporate governance, Vertical industries, Special Interest Group, Readers Comment
Discussion threads 2008-10-13
Amerika
Amerika THE BARE FACTS are astonishingenough. ABC, the network that brought us Sam Donaldson and The Day After, is staking $35 million and some 15 hours of its choicest prime time during the February ratings sweeps on the mini-series Amerika, which depicts in lascivious detail the horrors of...
Tags: ABC Inc., America, MARKETING, occupation, TVs
Research articles 1987-02-27
Rand-O-Rama: Ayn Rand's long shelf life in American culture
"This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall....Nothing she has to say is said in a second-rate fashion. You have to think of The Magic Mountain ... when you think of The Fountainhead."--Lorine Pruette, The New York Times Book Review (1943) ...
Tags: bottle, Ingersoll-Rand, New York Times Co., novel, SALES
Research articles 2005-03-01
SEC nominee is pro-business — so what?
WASHINGTON -- California Congressman Chris Cox, the president's nominee to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, would like to write a book giving Leibniz his due, at Newton's expense, for the invention of calculus. Could Cox really also be "a devoted student of Ayn Rand"? She...
Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Investment, nomination, SEC
Research articles 2005-06-12
The rise of the Republicrats: conservatives swore that they'd shrink the government once they got power. Well, they have it--and the government is bigger than ever. Now, some on the right have a surprising response: embrace the welfare state.(APPRAISAL)
TAKING ITS NAME FROM A SERIES OF ANTITYRANNY pamphlets published in the early 18th century, the libertarian Cato Institute is the foremost advocate for small-government principles in American life. Its 95 full-time employees, 70 adjunct scholars, 20 fellows, and army of interns work out of an...
Tags: appraisal, Cato Institute, Democrat, Government, libertarian, Republican, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-09-01
Atlas shrugged.
Byline: James Dunn Mar 29, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes are the founders of Australian software maker Atlassian. They were jointly awarded the 2006 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award". They began with two...
Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Ernst & Young LLP, founder, SALES
Research articles 2007-03-29
Automakers: A Pitiful Trio
Katy Delay submits: Neither Rick Wagoner, Alan Mulally, nor Bob Nardelli, the three CEOs of the biggest automobile companies in the US, could play a credible John Galt in th e upcoming movie version of Ayn Rand's novel. As Wikipedia describes the hero of Atlas Shrugged: by Katy...
Tags: US Market, Transport, Katy Delay, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp.
External links 2008-12-07
Nationalization the Ayn Rand Way
Vahan Janjigian Forbes submits: I am posting this from Austin, Texas. I traveled here yesterday to participate in a panel discussion at the CFA Society of Austin. The panel was moderated by Vincent Catalano. Other panelists included former Fed governor Bob McTeer, David Abramson from BCA Research in Quebec,...
Tags: BG Group plc, BP Plc, Citigroup Inc., F.C.C. Co. Ltd., Financial, TNK-BP, Vahan Janjigian
External links 2009-02-27
Microsoft Ignores Twitter Outlook Complaints
Microsoft has seen the fury of the masses and like Atlas, shrugged. A Twitter campaign astroturfed by email marketing campaign vendor Freshview is asking (or is it begging?) Microsoft to reverse course on a key technology decision made for Office 2007 in its next release of Outlook,...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Outlook 2010, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-06-25
Pfizer: How to Win or Lose the Lottery
John Dalt submits:What does it take to win the lottery? So much money that you get to pay the cost of the U.S. government for a few hours. If you are a pharmaceutical company, you could invite doctors to a retreat, pay for golf and massages. If you...
Tags: Healthcare, John Dalt, Pfizer Inc.
External links 2009-09-04
Atlas shrugged. (Al Davis Furniture Inc.'s new products)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
The new Zoom Briefing collection rounds out Davis's conference table options with smaller, lighter-weight, easily mobile tables. Company president Danny Davis shoulders the line's trapezoidal and triangular options, which can be conjoined in a variety of configurations for conference use, training seminars and, when necessary,...
Tags: Davis Furniture Inc.
Research articles 1997-08-01
Ayn Rand Institute Announces Film Screenings And 12 Public Events On Ayn Rand
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., April 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Ayn Rand Institute, in partnership with AT&T Broadband and C-SPAN, will host a series of public events discussing the influence of celebrated author Ayn Rand. Since the release of her best-selling classic The Fountainhead in 1943, Ayn Rand has been...
Tags: C-Span
Research articles 2002-04-24
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