The lure of Chilecon Valley
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As America shuts out immigrant entrepreneurs, Chile welcomes them
October 13th, 2012 | Source: The Economist
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Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the Thought-Leader Machine
August 25th, 2012 | Source: HBR Blogs
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson ran into an online buzzsaw this week. He says the "liberal blogosphere" was out to do him in, and that was part of it. But there's something bigger at work: a groundswell of resentment for and frustration with the "thought leaders" who craft our conventional wisdom, get paid big speaking fees for it, yet often behave in ways that don't accord with this status. First Jonah Lehrer, then Fareed Zakaria, now this — and surely there will be more such brouhahas to come.
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Too few Virgins; not enough Red Bulls
July 29th, 2012 | Source: The Economist
Europe not only has a euro crisis, it also has a growth crisis. That is because of its chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs
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Bungled Bank Bailout Leaves Behind Righteous Anger
July 22nd, 2012 | Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-22/bungled-b...
In the year since I stepped down as the special inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the sadly predictable consequences of the government’s disparate treatment of Wall Street and Main Street have only become worse. As the banks amass size and power, Main Street continues to get pummeled.
Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
July 17th, 2012 | Source: Bloomberg
The recent scandals at Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks might give the impression that the financial sector has some serious morality problems. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that: We are dealing with a drop in ethical standards throughout the business world, and our graduate schools are partly to blame.
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Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
July 8th, 2012 | Source: Vanity Fair
Analyzing one of American corporate history’s greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft—two-time George Polk Award winner (and V.F.’s newest contributing editor) Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at the company that “could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.”
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Not for sale: What Money Can’t Buy
July 4th, 2012 | Source: FT.com
Our romance with capitalism is a Faustian bargain, but two critiq:ues warn that giving free rein to markets comes at the cost of giving up a part of our soul
Martin Sandbu reviews:
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael Sandel, Allen Lane /Farrar, Straus and Giroux
How Much is Enough? The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life, by Robert and Edward Skidelsky, Allen Lane
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Berlin is ignoring the lessons of the 1930s
June 8th, 2012 | Source: FT.com OPINION
Is it one minute to midnight in Europe?
We fear that the German government’s policy of doing “too little too late” risks a repeat of precisely the crisis of the mid-20th century that European integration was designed to avoid.
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