According to this article in the New York Times, the chief executive officer of Pfizer is telling people that his company’s decision to buy a drug company in Dublin, Ireland, and move Pfizer’s headquarters to Ireland is good for the United States. His stated reasoning: the move will reduce Pfizer’s tax bill and give the […]…
About: William Holstein
Author Archives: William Holstein
Mike Sekora on the Real Value of R&D
I’ve known Mike Sekora for probably 30 years. He is one of those extremely bright people that the mainstream political process just don’t listen to. Mike has asked me to repost these two blogs of his: When Will We Stop Blindly Pissing Away Money Down the R&D Rat Hole? Harvard Business Review: Candid Arrogance or […]…
Are American Tech Companies Helping China Build Military Clout?
I very much regret that the time has come to be asking this question. For many years, we assumed that China would not be a direct challenge militarily or in cyberspace. But the Chinese have emerged in that light and seem poised to continue on the path of pushing the boundaries of their power–at our […]…
The Real American Economic Debate
The media debate regarding the American economy continues to be dominated by the flatulence of whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates or not and should maintain “quantitative easing” or not. The real action is thus occurring at the state and local level, which has been one of my themes for many years. Because […]…
How Big Data Is Transforming Top Management
I covered a roundtable discussion on this subject and wrote my analysis for Chief Executive magazine. The bottom line is that analyzing Big Data once seemed like it would be the exclusive realm of the geeks in the IT department, but now it is turning out that even chief executives have to understand certain data […]…
