I read recently that the Harvard Business School is making major changes to its curriculum and that the changes, according to its marketing release, are aimed to “create leaders of competence and character, rather than just connections and credentials”.  Evidently, there is a certain concern and maybe a little guilt that 58% of its graduates […]

“We’re going to find out whether Republicans have an appetite for a substantial reform agenda against pork spending, out of control budgets, and deal-making politics in this town”.—Rep. John Shadegg, candidate for House Majority Leader. Well, maybe we just did, because as I write, Shadegg, the most aggressive change agent and spending reformer in the […]

For the past couple of years, we political junkies have watched, some with varying degrees of amusement, many with disdain, as Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle pursued partisan retribution against those who would have the temerity to exercise their First Amendment right to free political speech by exposing the voting records of duplicitous legislators […]

In the wake of the rash of corporate misdeeds for which Enron is the metaphor, it is not surprising that there has been a proliferation of op/eds, seminars, and beefed-up business school courses on business ethics. The best article I have seen so far is “Oxymoron 101”, by Dan Seligman in Forbes magazine (it also […]