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Archive for December, 2009

Words from the Wise

Sometimes the simplest of phrases can have mountains of truth.  Mr. Micawber, a character from Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, understood well the relationship between income and spending.  As many who had spent past their means in the years before the recent crisis can surely relate:
“Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen nineteen six; result, [...]

A Less Glamorous Trend for MBAs

While reading the World In 2010, an annual production by the Economist magazine to predict and analyze the coming year, I found one article titled “The end of the affair”, to sadly mirror my own feelings about the future of the MBA or more importantly the value of business education.
Years ago when I applied to [...]

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