In early January, my household begins to buzz with anticipation for the start of American Idol. Since the show coincides with the bedtime routine for my daughters, we set our cable DVR to record each episode and then watch the show as a family over the next few days. Over several years of watching the…
According to USA Today, Major League Baseball Commisioner is agonizing about whether to suspend Alex Rodriguez for use of banned performance enhancing drugs. What does this have to do with business models? This case gets at the moral dimension of business models …
I heard a great talk a few years ago from one of the highest ranking executives at a major company. She advised the audience to think of the three words or phrases that you would want people to use to describe you when you are not in the room. Why when you are “not in…
The movie We are Marshall tells the story of the rebuilding of the Marshall University football program after a tragic plane crash in 1970 that killed nearly the entire team and the coaching staff. The university president came close to suspending the program when he was persuaded by students and the community to rebuild. Matthew McConaughey…
The situation for General Motors (GM) is dire. The company says it will run out of cash possibly before the end of the year and definitely by next June without raising more capital. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote Saturday to Treasury Secretary Paulson to ask the administration to expand…
