Robert Frost on Growth & the Environment for it

Robert Frost on Growth & the Environment for it

American poet on human growth From Robert Frost’s 1919 “Address to the Amherst Alumni Council”:  You remember when teachers began to talk against rote memory. The day of reason came in and they began to say, “Let us have a college where people think...

A Physicist Solves the Fleeting Life of Businesses

A Physicist Solves the City by Johan Lehrer DECEMBER 17, 2010 Earlier, we wrote that 99 percent of large US firms do not survive for 40 years without having been either bankrupt or acquired as shown by business scholars Stubbart and Knight. We also pointed to the...

Goodwill, intangible assets, and where they come from

Goodwill, intangible assets, and the right culture When a company is acquired, most often the amount the buyer pays for it is far superior to the value of its tangible—physical and financial—assets. Goodwill is, technically, an intangible asset, one coming into play...