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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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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
Ayn Rand Institute Announces Film Screenings And 12 Public Events On Ayn Rand
News/Assignment Editors & Entertainment Writers MARINA DEL REY, Calif.--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--April 24, 2002 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...
Tags: C-Span
Research articles 2002-04-24
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
Letters of Ayn Rand. - book reviews
IF ANYONE needs a makeover it's Ayn Rand. After her death in 1982, her one-time proteges, Nathaniel and Barbara Branden, both published biographies portraying her as an abusive monster who held facts instead of opinions, drove her husband to drink, and held purge trials in her living room whenever one...
Tags: National Review Inc.
Research articles 1995-10-09
"America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business"; Papers of Ayn Rand at Butterfield's November Auction
LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 28, 1998--A library of nearly 5,000 Ayn Rand handwritten pages including personal letters, manuscripts and drafts of articles and novels highlights Butterfield & Butterfield's Wednesday November 18 book and manuscript auction to be simulcast between Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Butterfield, Butterfield & Dunning gallery in...
Tags: auction, Butterfield & Butterfield, Ingersoll-Rand, manuscript
Research articles 1998-10-28
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
A RANDIAN FEMINISM?(Review) (book reviews)
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, eds. Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra (University Park: Penn State Press, 1999) xiv + 413 pp., cloth $19.95. Editors Sciabarra and Gladstein have assembled the most important contribution to the academic study of Ayn Rand to appear...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Penn State
Research articles 1999-12-22
Great American Writers Festival
Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--May 2, 2002 Five days of film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and a live broadcast celebrating Ayn Rand and her novel "The Fountainhead" will take place in Los Angeles from May 10 to 14. C-SPAN, whose American Writers Series II profiles a different...
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Research articles 2002-05-02
Alan Greenspan - cultist? The fascinating personal history of Mr. Pinstripe. (Federal Reserve Board chairman)
Alan Greenspan is one of the followers of famous novelist Ayn Rand, who advocated the philosophy of 'objectivism.' The Federal Reserve Board head was a member of Rand's inner circle during the rapid rise of this philosophy and the publication which it spaAlan Greenspan is one of the followers of...
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board, follower, Ingersoll-Rand
Research articles 1997-09-01
Is O'Rourke O'Wrong?
Last week in Where's the Line we posted, tongue planted lightly in cheek, an old quote from conservative humorist, P.J. O’Rourke. "There is only one basic human right," said P.J., "the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty...
Tags: Consequence, Thommygun, Self-interest, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-08-19
US POSTAL SERVICE: Novelist who glorified individual achievement receives lofty tribute.
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 1999-US POSTAL SERVICE: Novelist who glorified individual achievement receives lofty tribute C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:140499 * Ayn Rand Commemorative Stamp Issued in City She Loved Novelist Ayn Rand, whose love for New York and America...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, SOFTWARE, stamp, U.S. Postal Service
Research articles 1999-04-16
REMINDER/Great American Writers Festival
Entertainment Editors & City Desks/Assignment Editors REMINDER...for Friday-Tuesday (May 10-14) LOS ANGELES--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--May 2, 2002 Five days of film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and a live broadcast celebrating Ayn Rand and her novel "The Fountainhead" will take place in Los Angeles from May 10 to 14....
Tags: C-Span
Research articles 2002-05-09
Rand rebuffed; McGill refuses funding to study a leading right-wing writer.(Ayn Rand )
In recent years, McGill University has established research chairs in such diverse subjects as reproductive medicine, schizophrenia and Chinese cultural studies. As is common in institutions of higher learning, chairs are created following what is almost always described as a "generous contribution" by a wealthy benefactor....
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, McGill University
Research articles 2002-09-02
Entrepreneurship -- The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper
THE FOUNTAINHEAD Though Ayn Rand's brand of individualism can easily lapse into egoism, you'll find yourself rooting for maverick architect Howard Roark Gary Cooper in this film adaptation of Rand's novel. Roark's unconventional designs spark outrage among his peers, who are too wedded to the "soul-less robots" of society to...
Tags: Branding, Cooper, Entrepreneurship, MARKETING, Robots
Research articles 1994-10-01
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
What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?
What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?Economic FreedomI think you picked the wrong economist to be approving of maximum economic freedom. Keynes approved of high levels of government intervention; Adam Smith or Hayek may have served better.RE: What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?Interesting, but I would hardly consider Keynes...
Tags: Keynes
Discussion threads 2008-02-19
In Financial Reform, It's Paulson vs. Cox
You couldn't have two more different regulators and policy-makers. In one corner, you have Henry "Hank" Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury. The former head of Wall Street titan, Goldman Sachs, he is known as a tough, bald-headed earth-shaker. In others words, he's a shark. ...
Tags: Financial, Financial Accounting, SEC, Finance, Construction, Wall, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Federal Reserve Board, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-06-24
Ayn Rand Institute: Unveiling the Danish Cartoons: A Discussion on Free Speech and World Reaction
News Advisory: News Advisory:
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand
Research articles 2006-03-07
P.J. O'Rourke on Rights and Responsibilities
P.J. O'Rourke on Rights and ResponsibilitiesRE: P.J. O'Rourke on Rights and ResponsibilitiesIt's a great quote but it's too bad that so many high-level corporate types take the first part "to do as they please" to heart and then fail to take the second part to heart as well, "the duty...
Tags: Self-Interest, Human Rights, O'Rourke, P.J.
Discussion threads 2008-08-15
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