What are they thinking at Exxon Mobil?

Look out the windows, boys and girls at Exxon Mobil headquarters in Houston. Mother Nature may be trying to send you a message! Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, is arguably the capital of the American energy industry, which has argued that climate change is just a theory that scientists cannot establish beyond a shadow […]…

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Trump and the CEOs: The Real Message

After contemplating all the analysis of the fall-out between President Trump and leading American chief executive officers, I don’t think one message has been well-communicated: CEOs are committed to a pluralistic vision of America’s future because that’s what makes the most sense from a profit point of view. Even though boards and CEO jobs are […]…

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The New Monopolists?: Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple

Back in 1999, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft for the way it pledged to “choke off the air supply” of rival Netscape. In the 1990s, individual users had to purchase a way to get onto the still-emerging Internet. Netscape was a company that offered one such ISP service. Microsoft, […]…

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What the FoxConn deal might mean

It’s easy to be cynical about the announcement that FoxConn Technology Group will invest $10 billion in southeast Wisconsin. The deal could have been purely a political gesture aimed at providing a short-term boost to President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, not to mention Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. They were all hungry for a […]…

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