An executive of a large automotive company tells the story of two engineers who were arguing about the correct angle of an engine mount. The…

We are in the midst of dramatic changes that are redefining and reshaping our world. Western Europe is consolidating into one common economic market. Eastern…

If accountants (“those bean-counters”) are so dumb and we (“who really know this business”) are so smart, why do they run our companies? We complain…

Imagine you have two new direct reports, Stan and Frank. Both seem equally qualified — a degree from a good school, a couple years of…

As a child of the 1960s, I, like so many of my peers, felt antagonistic toward the world of business. Then in 1979 I became…

In 1992, Americans will spend $817 billion on healthcare — twice as much per capita than the average of the 24 industrialized nations of the…

The riots in Los Angeles several months ago focused the nation’s attention on social issues surrounding the urban poor. In the wake of these events,…

“Medical cost cutters known as utilization review companies…have become immensely popular with employers seeking to control their health-care costs…[D]oubt is growing about the new…

At Ford Motor Company, we know how to design cars. We have the engineering, the technology, the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools. But we haven’t…

We are in the midst of an unprecedented upheaval — a fundamental shift in the structure and nature of business. According to Fortune magazine,…