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Archive for: April, 2004

Witch of Wall Street

Witch of Wall Street

Contrary to the widely held belief, Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, is not the first “World’s Richest Lady to Make It on Her Own.” Arguably, that title may rest with one Hetty Green.
Had there been a Forbes Four Hundred list when she died in 1916, she surely would have been among the top twenty. According [...]

Entrepreneurial Cycle

Entrepreneurial Cycle

Joseph Schumpeter would have loved today’s stock market. Schumpeter (1883-1950), an Austrian economist who emigrated to the U.S. and taught the dismal science at Harvard, would have seen opportunity around the corner for those applying his theories on growth in today’s marketplace. Schumpeter focused his studies on the role of the entrepreneur in the economy. [...]

Job Outsourcing

Job Outsourcing

Job outsourcing is not a new problem for any economy—history is replete with examples. In the 1830s, England became so proficient at milling cloth that India cried “foul” as jobs in the textile mills fled India for England. Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot of anecdotal evidence of the US economy being driven to its [...]

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