The last 50 years have seen a massive transformation for women in the workplace. But even as the gender gap has closed, a substantial chasm survives between ideal equality and reality in too many industries and firms. If you seek to interview for a job in one of these fields, you’ll may have to devise […]
5 Questions to Ask a Company Before Joining As an Employee
Early signs that you must know in order to avoid potential disappointment. Speak your piece or hold your peace forever. Whether you are a fresh graduate or a seasoned job seeker, the journey of getting employed is a complicated art by itself. It is an art that demands you to have a pair of sharp […]
Turkey refusial to allow US rescue mission into Iraq and other touchy matters brought up in press conference with Secretary Hagel
On September 8, 2014 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel held a press conference in Turkey. A transcript of the entire press conference is as follows: “SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL: John, thank you. First, you all know Ross Wilson, the former ambassador who’s now the new ambassador temporaire. I acknowledge him because I’ve known Ross […]
Good Firm vs. Bad Firm, by Phin Upham
Scholars often say that there are good firms and bad firms. Here Phin Upham looks at a seminal work which challenges some of these findings. In Thomas H. Brush and Philip Bromiley’s What Does a Small Corporate Effect Mean? A Variance Components Simulation of Corporate and Businesses Effects, they analyze, reinterpreted, and retest Rumelt’s 1991 essay […]
Social Systems and You, by Phin Upham
What is the purpose of society and its parts? Phin Upham discusses the theory of functionalism. By attempting to explore/describe aspects of society through the lens of functionalism, one is explaining objects in society in terms of what roles they play. Talcott Parsons, in particular, is not so much dealing with the specifics of society in […]
Our Stimulus Spot Check: Summer Wave of Projects Nears Crest
Vice President Joe Biden touted this as the summer of stimulus, a time when the Obama administration would ramp up road construction and put “shovels in the ground.” That promise appears likely to play out – albeit a bit later than expected, according to our Stimulus Spot Check [1], a status report on road and […]