The New Face of Number Crunching
The accounting profession is still suffering from old stereotypes: stagnant and boring number crunching. Mention the word “accountant” and people still picture a worker hunched over a desk, never...
View ArticleSkimming: It's Worse than You Think
In our digital age, “skimming” has become a growing problem. Skimmers are small devices, installed by criminals on ATM machines, self-serve gas pumps and other devices to steal information from credit,...
View ArticleWhy Innovation is Stuck in Slow Motion
Business innovation has a problem. A recent working paper by Robert Gorden titled “Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds” suggests that “innovation does not have...
View ArticleA Poor but Standard Model
With the business model of the credit rating agencies in the news again, we wonder if there will be more than partial repairs.Since U.S. Attorney Eric Holder filed suit against the market leader,...
View ArticleTrust, Respect, Communicate
There is an adage in the organizational behavior world that posits that employees don’t leave organizations; rather, they leave bad managers who create and perpetuate toxic work environments. Instead...
View ArticleThe Ethics of User Experience
New technologies have always produced unintended consequences. But user experience (UX) designers and engineers face a number of new ethical challenges today with the rise of technology and our...
View ArticleMicro-finance: Lessons from the Field 1
Mohammed Yunis came up with a good idea: Give small loans to people who don’t have access to capital. A high percentage of the world’s population lives at a subsistence level. They spend all they make...
View ArticleBig Hackers Target Small Business
The news is full of stories about the hacking into large companies: Burger King, Jeep, The New York Times, and even supposedly adept tech companies such as Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft....
View ArticleDetroit’s Downfall
How does a city that once thrived declare an $18 billion bankruptcy and leave a community stunned?
View ArticleSurvival of the Fittest
Detroit’s bankruptcy is still making headlines, but many U.S. cities face similar issues. How have others survived?
View ArticleR&D Stimulus
Revisions in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product could stimulate R&D investment and technology-driven innovation.
View ArticleMicro-Finance: Lessons from the Field 2
Unintended consequences may accrue from a bank’s well-meaning efforts to provide micro-loans. Personal stories from the village of Trom, Ghana, reveal a few cautions.
View ArticleSystematic Scam
Obamacare open enrollment is slated for October 1, and identity thieves are at the ready as the federal government creates its largest-ever database of personal information.
View ArticleThe New Frontier for Women in Leadership — Including Men
How can it be that in 2013, women currently hold just 10 to 15 percent of the senior leadership (C-Suite) positions in corporate America? To get a different result — to truly support, retain and...
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