There is an old joke that if you have two Jews you will have three opinions. Former US Congressman and New York Mayor Ed Koch this weekend added, “And also four different temples.” This joke is not a joke but … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Last week AOL Chair and CEO Tim Armstrong, a young and fast-talking executive of the new media, addressed the season’s first meeting of the Boston Association for Corporate Growth. He spread witty anecdotes and hints of his view of the … Continue reading
Three major players on the New England corporate scene agreed today that American business is over-regulated, and that Boards of Directors are being diverted from their primary task of strategic leadership and are being forced to deal with regulatory compliance. … Continue reading
Now that we are finished with both rather conventional and predictable Conventions, the “race” for the Presidency begins in earnest. The seeming fragmentation of the body politic into discrete and intensely focused “voting blocs” which are fought over between the … Continue reading
The other day a man, Wade Michael Page, now sketchily described as a neo-Nazi white supremacist, shot some followers of the Sikh religion at their Wisconsin Temple, a patently deplorable action regardless of the backstory of either the perp or the victims. Beneath … Continue reading
There may be a death-knell coming for Twinkies and I know this is true because this week’s Fortune magazine tells me that the corporate parent may not emerge from bankruptcy. The article explores the allegedly intransigent positions of the private … Continue reading
I am about to ensure 2012 World Series victory for the Red Sox by declaring that the team will win it all. I am the sort of pundit who is always wrong; if I were to declare the world to … Continue reading
Midst this summer’s preoccupation with vacations, London and (around here) the collapse/revival/recollapse of the Red Sox, a fascinating corporate-social experiment is bubbling just below the lead headlines: Chick-fil-A. We do not, here in Massachusetts, know much about this company, a … Continue reading
It has been a while since I posted about the Boston Red Sox, and followers of baseball likely know the reason: they have been playing terribly. And if you go back to the last (2011) All Star break, they are … Continue reading
Regrettably, the reading of Supreme Court opinions often falls only to lawyers. There is much that is technical in them, but most (in cases such as the Affordable Care Act) relates to policy, to the nature of our social contract … Continue reading