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Just a few weeks ago, Takafumi Horie would retire every evening to his palatial home in one of Tokyo's most prestigious apartment towers, where it's said that rents can exceed $50,000 a month. Now, however, Horie spends his days and nights in an unheated jail cell the...
As R.E.M. might say, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine. No, dear reader, the following is neither a forecast of the apocalypse nor an elegy for the state of rock music today. But have you ever noticed how we...
While much of corporate Europe shut down last week, top officials at the Luxembourg steel company Arcelor were working harder than ever. In the space of just seven days starting Dec. 22, the firm bought a 50% stake in two Costa Rican firms and snapped up 20.5% of a Turkish...
“Chandler has recast the way historians understand managerial capitalism,” said Bernard Bailyn, the Adams University professor emeritus at Harvard. “Chandler is an inspiration to those in the field of business history,” Bailyn said.
Funny enough, his position turns out to be not that far from that of many of his intellectual adversaries. Indeed, once you get past the ideology--Rodgers argues that advocates of corporate social responsibility are "negating capitalism and espousing socialism"--it isn't clear how much the standards CSR advocates...