Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.