If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.