In his popular book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking author Malcolm Gladwell discusses one famous case of art forgery. The Getty Museum of Los Angeles reportedly paid more than $7 million for a stunning piece of Greek sculpture, the “Kouros,” a previously unknown work said to be from the 6th century BC. The [...]
January 27, 2012
Looking for a Few Good Entrepreneurs
Are you a Mason alum or area business owner (or dreaming of becoming an owner)? Have you thought about starting your “own thing”? Think someday you may need outside capital? This semester I am coordinating the MBA Entrepreneurship Laboratory. In this 1.5 credit class we have small teams of MBA students looking at area firms [...]
January 12, 2012
Resolutions for an Entrepreneurial Year
My consulting firm co-founder Jay Kerness and I are not a big fans of New Year’s resolutions (although Jay usually does go to the gym in January so he can say he “started working out this year”). Resolutions or not, I am a proponent of reflection and renewal, at any season. Whenever it is needed. Any [...]
November 9, 2011
The Conundrum of Capitalism
Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried….” The same is often said of free market capitalism. Of capitalism itself, Churchill quipped “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing [...]
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February 15, 2012
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