Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture, Environment, Feature, Globalization, Health, Responsibility, Vegetarianism | 2 Comments »Mark Bittman does a yeoman's job of summarizing the meat industry's impact on the globe in this article. The facts are astonishing, mind-blowing, and will create real shock and awe in your mind if you synthesize them. And in light ...
Creating Exceptional Value
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 Posted in Capitalism, Corporations, Globalization, Responsibility, Society, Sustainability | No Comments »I'm currently enrolled in a class called Creating Exceptional Value: Performance Without Compromise. The class is co-taught by Professors Anjan Thakor and Chuck Knight. Knight is the former CEO of Emerson, a St. Louis-based company that experienced tremendous, sustained growth ...
A Sustainable Hegemony
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 Posted in Capitalism, Globalization, Society | No Comments »I've only a cursory education in international relations and politics but many experts point toward a hegemony during times of global stability. Two unnerving pieces of information today are making me think - probably prematurely - the end is nigh ...
WTO Smackdown
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Globalization, Society, Trade | No Comments »Only a week after I posted my paper, "The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development", on green | rising, a law student named Daniel Schramm has published an opinion piece in my local paper entitle, "Ecological and social issues get short shrift at the ...
Responsible MBAs
Friday, December 29th, 2006 Posted in Capitalism, Education, Globalization, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Responsibility, Society | No Comments »For most of America's history political parties have been divided by business. As a candidate or as a voter you were either pro-business or you weren't - and for the most part people still are. We have a tendency to draw ...
