Purchasing Worker Loyalty: Mount Hope Finishing, North Dighton, MA

The Mount Hope Finishing Company and village of North Dighton, Massachusetts, in 1924.  Some believed it was just one big, integrated factor...

In Praise of the Introverted Entrepreneur

Arguably the single most successful entrepreneur of the twentieth century was Alfred Pritchard Sloan (1875-1966). In 1920 he joined an unwie...

Porcelain and a Close Shave: The Wisdom of Crowdfunding

The Battle of the Viaduct in Chicago, part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 In 1894, a traveling salesman for the Crown Cork and Seal co...

Some Companies Just Need to Go Away (Yahoo? RIM? Kodak?)

End-of-life spending in healthcare has been a blistering topic for years.  In the US and Canada we spend about one third of our overall heal...

What Makes Entrepreneurs Nervous? (Redux 2015)

One day years ago I came home from work and told my wife I’d had an experience in the office like I “was in an MTV video.”  (For those too y...