So it's quite interesting to see former FDA commissioner Andy Eschenbach making what sounds like a very similar pitch in the Wall Street Journal. It's near the end of an op-ed about reforming the FDA, and it goes like this: Breakthrough technologies...

Dartmouth Professor Sydney Finkelstein first wrote about the Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives 8 years ago in “Why Smart Executives Fail.” When I wrote about the habits last month, I had no idea that the post would strike such a...

The fact that productivity of U.S. manufacturing workers has gone up while wages have not isn’t a market failure? And, the fact that dollars invested in the American economy by venture capital are producing diminishing employment returns, as Andy Grove...

The odds of problems escalate when the managers don’t have the skills, capital or experience. In the ’90s, the focus was on acquisitions and building new business models with companies desperate for first-mover advantage, forging ahead quickly even when...

The world from Davos this year could hardly have looked more different from the one I first witnessed in 1997. Back then, American executives, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, Intel's Andy Grove and Enron's Kenneth Lay, could bask in the glow of U.S....

Mind, and he disagreed with the phrase the New York Stock Exchange “spent a decade trying to fight off technology.” The NYSE didn’t fight off technology, he says. It used it incorrectly. Keith, who spent 17 years at NYSE, says that anyone interested in...