Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]
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I love this: Rather than reflexively relying on goals, argues Max Bazerman, a Harvard Business School professor and the fourth coauthor of “Goals Gone Wild,” we might also be better off creating workplaces and schools that foster our own inherent interest in the work. “There are lots of organizations where people want to do well, [...]
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In his interview on 60 Minutes, Ben Bernanke gingerly offered the analogy that if your neighbour lit his house of fire by smoking in bed you might be disinclined to help put it out because he had it coming. But if your own house is made of wood you can’t afford to be passive. [...]
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I was glad to see Kevin writing on the strike at York U. I don’t usually take much of an interest in the annual strike there, but after reading Fulford’s remarks I had a few thoughts… Even gladder I was that Kevin and I are in broad agreement: ”education is essential… those on strike at York should have never had the [...]
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Michael Kinsley raises some good points, questioning the assumptions promoted by both presidential candidates – that small business is necessarily good and taxing small business is therefore necessarily bad: Small businesses are businesses like any other, and small business owners are people just like others—except that they tend to be wealthier. Why should the magic words “small business” entitle [...]
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The way to solve the financial crisis seems so obvious now, after reading this brilliant piece of insight from Chris Dillow, posted as “Ownership vs. Markets” (via Mark Thoma). The main intention of Dillow’s post is to respond to concerns that “the credit crunch is undermining the case for free market capitalism.” He argues that [...]
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