Fortune’s June 16 issue carried it’s editor’s boast over the magazine’s 60th annual ranking of the 500 largest U.S. companies and how their collective profits exceeded $1 trillion (“Wow!”) More soberly, on June 14, Peter Diamandis (X-Prize founder and Singularity … Read More
Now that Big Data Analytics has become a hot topic, Big Data expert Prof. Mariann Jelinek observes, “the ‘hype cycle’ has advanced to include both puff and backlash.” Big Data enthusiasts often write about such operational advantages as shorter customer … Read More
By Michelle Grainger Dan McGurrin began his career tearing down walls. Now he’s spending his days building bridges. Metaphorically, of course, because McGurrin’s field is executive education. In this profile—one of a series on the staff, faculty and fellows of … Read More
By Michelle Grainger If a company invests in innovation, will they—the financial returns, that is—come? That’s the question on every CEO’s mind. It was also on the mind of Michael Stanko and Jonathan Bohlmann, professors at the N.C. State University … Read More