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- Why We Can't Stop Making Bad Decisions
- Might the bailout of the week strategy in vogue in Washington be simply irrational behavior on an institutional level? I hinted at this in Peeling Away the Economic Onion. I ran across this Shankar Vedantam column in the Washington Post, Taking More Risks Because You Feel...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Peeling Away the Economic Onion
- The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Analyze This
- Is better analytics the key to business success? In his "The Halcyon Days of Analytics," Steve Finikiotis of management consultant Osprey Associates argues that firms should be using analytics more effectively. It's an intriguing post, but a little thin on specifics. To wit, this statement: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Tom Peters: Don't Sweat the Recession
- I've posted on some alarmist points of view regarding our economy. It only fits that I should post on Tom Peters' The Train Keeps on Rolling. He notes that despite decades worth of pronouncements of doom on America's position in the world economy, including his own,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Junk Your Headquarters
- You don't need a headquarters -- you need a federation of autonomous hub offices in different regions. So argue C.K. Prahalad and Hrishikesh Bhattacharyya in their article Twenty Hubs and No HQ in the latest issue of strategy+business registration required. Prahalad, a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- "Crunch" Time
- Feel like you're running on an economic hamster wheel, powering an economy that benefits only a relative few? Jared Bernstein's "Crunch" is for you. So says reviewer Harry Hurt III in A Rock, A Hard Place and an Exit Strategy. Hurt walks through Bernstein's discussion...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Nassim Taleb Thinks Everyone Is Stupid
- Wall Street's ability to plan for risk is a joke, as far as Nassim Nicholas Tasseb is concerned. Tasseb tells Fortune in Fear of a Black Swan that as "portfolio models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Do Markets Have Morals?
- I think markets have blind spots, along with a certain caustic wit. But the Templeton Foundation has been funding research into what you might call the two sides of Adam Smith, melding the free-market capitalism of "The Wealth of Nations" with the moral philosophy of its predecessor, "The Theory...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- George Soros Puts the Bite on Markets
- George Soros knows financial markets -- it's how he got to be a billionaire. So when he starts pointing out fundamental flaws in today's markets and calls for reform, he's doing it from within the machine. Soros has a new book out, "The New Paradigm for Financial...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- China, India and the Future
- Tarun Khanna closes out his book on China and India with a tantalizing section called "The Future." Who doesn't want to know what's going to happen with these two countries? Unfortunately, we don't really find out much about the future that he hasn't already suggested. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- When Doing Business in China and India, Nothing Is Guaranteed
- Can you make money in India and China? That's the central question of Part II of "Billions of Entrepreneurs." The answer: maybe. Author Tarun Khanna shows that companies have made money in both countries, but that foreign firms in particular have found profits challenging. In India, local...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- China and India: Night and Day
- Quick, what is India's Independence Day? China's? If you didn't know, you need to read "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures, and Yours," Tarun Khanna's guidebook to the future. The world isn't flat; it's tilting towards the world's two...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Muhammad Yunus On How to End Poverty
- The third section of Creating a World Without Poverty details Muhammad Yunus' vision for creating social businesses and how they will eliminate poverty. Yunus recaps some of the hoops that had to be jumped through before Grameen Danone could start making high-nutrition, low-cost yogurt in Bangladesh. Capital...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism is Half-Baked
- In "Creating a World Without Poverty," Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal – that's merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real – he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Alan Greenspan: Hero or Villain?
- Benjamin M. Friedman, a political economist at Harvard, has a review of Alan Greenspan's "The Age of Turbulence" in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books (see Chairman Greenspan's Legacy). Why read a review almost six months after its subject has been published? For its nuance and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Stopping Online Crime
- Hardly a day seems to go by without some kind of major data loss incident occurring, despite companies spending billions of dollars on security technology. How does this happen? CSO Online has an excerpt, Famous for Fifteen Minutes, from Philip Hallam-Baker's new book, dotcrime Manifesto: How to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Is a Good Face Good for Business?
- Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Wikinomics for the Stock Market
- Wikinomics was one of last year's best-regarded business books. Motley Fool says it should be a must read for stockpickers, as well. The main point the Fool wants its readers to know: a successful company in the modern era should not be afraid to open up...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Steve Ballmer: Read These Books Before Microsoft Buys Yahoo!
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- The Stunning Subprime Mess
- How bad is the subprime crisis? This from the New York Times, in the wake of the Swiss bank UBS announcing huge write-downs related to subprime mortgages: Banks worldwide have announced more than $135 billion in credit losses and write-downs since the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
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