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 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 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...
American poet on freedom and equality This is what Robert Frost wrote in his 1937 address “What became of New England”: In 1897 I was sitting in a class in college when I heard a man spend quite the part of an hour making fun of the expression that we were...
Creativity? It’s bananas. by Jim Prior 6 OCTOBER 2010 I enjoyed an excellent lunch today with Brian Carney, of The Wall Street Journal in Europe. Brian has co-authored a really superb book, Freedom Inc., on how organisations can drive greater success through deeper...
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