16 July 2014 – There’s a controversy over the number of U.S. companies that are merging with foreign entities and declaring that they are no longer U.S. companies for purposes of U.S. taxation. This is an old story I have been following for four decades. I first interviewed Dow Chemical CEO Carl Gerstacker in 1974. […]…
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The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Larry Summers
July 8, 2014–This is one of the most influential minds in the economics profession, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal. Yet Summers, the former secretary of the Treasury and a professor at Harvard, does not accept that manufacturing has a major role to play in America’s future. He says its decline is “inexorable.” Every other […]…
Automotive News Quotes Me Again on GM
Poised Barra carries GM’s image on her shoulders As seen in Automotive News | April 1, 2014 by Lindsay Chappell More than one expert observer of Tuesday’s congressional examination noted that GM CEO Mary Barra received a more congenial interrogation than either of the Toyota executives who were called to Capitol Hill in 2010 over safety issues. As she […]…
How To Improve Technology Commercialization
June 11, 2014–This is one of the most important articles I’ve written lately. The main piece is about how the United States can facilliate the flow of technologies from its idea factories. The second item is a how-to table. Making Tech Transfer Work How America’s idea factories can work with CEOs to commercialize more technology. […]…
Where is Francis Fukuyama When We Need Him?
May 2, 2014–I was at Business Week when the Soviet Union collapsed and we had intense arguments about whether the former Soviets could simply go “cold turkey” and transform themselves into a capitalist-style democracy overnight. Having had experience living in one Communist country, namely China, I knew that was impossible. But then came Francis Fukuyama […]…
