Commentaries

Firing the Right Customers Is Good Business

February 15, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Carsten Pedersen and Thomas Ritter for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Not every customer…

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A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Employee Activism

February 13, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Megan Reitz and John Higgins for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Innovative growers: A view from the top

February 11, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Matt Banholzer, Rebecca Doherty, Alex Morris, and Scott Schwaitzberg for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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Listening to the N.F.L.: A plots and B plots in the best podcasts for the playoffs

February 10, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Photograph by Cindy Ord / SiriusXM / Getty *…

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Five Key Trends in AI and Data Science for 2024

February 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR…

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What you may not already know about Taylor Swift

February 7, 2024

The International Movie Database (IMDb) remains the best single source for information about the entertainment world. For example, Taylor Swift. o She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1989. o For songs that she owns and for which…

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The Man Who Forgets Nothing: The minestrone of Martin Scorsese’s mind

February 6, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an classic (March 19, 2000) article by Mark Singer for The New Yorker in which he explains how and why movies, books, whiskey labels, childhood memories — they’re all lodged in the Martin Scorsese’s…

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Angry Middle-Aged Man

February 5, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic New Yorker article by James Kaplan, published in the January 19, 2004, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Steve Brodner  *…

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The Hidden Opportunity in Paradoxes

January 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Scott D. Anthony for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Traci Daberko * * * When…

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Wisdom on the Other Side of Complexity

January 27, 2024

Long ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. observed, “I don’t care a fig about simplicity on this side of complexity but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” In his latest book, Possible, William Ury…

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