Heading for that interview, here are ten things to avoid in a recent Business Week Posting. Meanwhile the big box guys are becoming well small box guys.  Actually Wal Mart started in smaller towns like Seminole Texas with small stores. They are just returning to their roots.

One of the amazing things about fraud is how easy it is to dupe peopel.  Jason submitted this story about a fellow who promised ‘security for those that did not like traditional banks.’  He then took client money and deposited it in a regular bank and actually conducted regualr business. Such fellows usually flee to…

Hugo Chavez makes good on his promise to nationalize the oil fields in Venezuela.  And he declares that the operation will no longer be open to foreign investment. If the Venezuelan group now in charge had the resources of Exxon, Conoco, Total, et al, that might work, but of course they don’t.  Frankly from a…

Matt Moore found the Mike Milken page which is at http://www.mikemilken.com. He glosses over his role as a junk bond manipulator. This was a unique time in corporate history when raiders could get the money they neede without going to a bank or insurance company. Here is the condensed story for example of what happened…

As you know I have been predicting worse than expected consequences from the real estate fallout.  Here is a Forbes article showing just how much the housing slowdown is affecting the overall economy.  I also read that home problems cause consumers to be averse to buying new cars, so the ripple is spreading, hmmm, boats…

Click here to read about what they are doing in the spring at Wharton. Okay, what school is this, Wharton that is?  Hint, it is usually in the top ten B Schools. Why should you care-take a read about what they are paying grads to work for hedge funds. These grads are expecting $100K and…

Marvin Olasky weighs in with this article.  He points out that Halberstam was old journalism in which an icon spoke of what was/is happening.  Now with blogs, everyone can be a journalist, where will this take us-to a new empowerment or just more fractional polarizing squabbling? Michael Young is the Editor of a newspaper in…

Boeing  now declares itself to be a technology company.  The 787 Dreamliner will be assembled around the world and brought in by 747s.  The plane will cost a cool $150M so cost control is important. This is yet another article illustrating globalization and managing costs, something we study in several cost courses. One can also…

And so we come to the end of another semester.  Most of you are, thanks to years and years of multiple choice enforced testing, focused only on your grade on the next test. This of course is a mistake.  You are looking down, look up.  X years from now no one is going to ask…

David Halberstam was killed in a car crash this week at age 73.  While it has been said that many live through history without understanding the changes around them, Halberstam certainly labored to chronicle them. His The Best and The Brightest is still the classic on how the US went wrong in Viet Nam.  His…