Three years ago, I did a post on Anthony Trollope’s novel The Way We are Now, which former HBS professor Amar Bhide (now at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) had recommended to me as " the definitve work of business fiction." So I was excited to...
Anyone who knows me knows I'm fascinated by business models. I love analyzing them and thinking up new ones that can be game changing. Over the last few months I've been blown away by the number of articles written about evolving business models in many, many...
With two eighteen-month-old sons, I’m more attuned than I used to be to news about education, so my eye was caught by a piece in The New York Times about the "4th R" – Recess. It seems that a series of studies, including a recently published one in the...
Over the weekend I belatedly added to my winter wardrobe that new staple, a sleekly designed, precisely fitted, insulated black coat. I got mine at Searle, where they do a creditable version that's cut well for me, and the experience of buying it was an...
As I write this I’m sitting in the sparely designed Museum Hill Cafe, part of a complex of small museums on a hill overlooking Santa Fe New Mexico. The views of the mountains are beautiful but that’s not why I’ve kept coming back here during my stay in Santa Fe....
