Description: The legal analyst and correspondent spoke at TIME and Real Simple’s Women and Success event about how she doesn’t like the word ‘ambition.’ Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Sep 25, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1LbkyA1 Questions for discussion: Why do you think Savannah Guthrie was uncomfortable with the question about ambition? How would you have… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2015
40 Under 40: Advice to my 20-year-old self, 2015 Edition
Description: See what advice these successful business influencers can offer to their younger selves. Source: Forbes.com – video report Date: Sep 23, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1Owq8x7 Questions for Discussions: Summarize the advice offered. Which item do you consider most relevant to you at this time in your life? What advice would you send ahead to remind yourself… Read more »
Harry’s CEO Andy Katz-Mayfield is slowly disrupting the shaving industry
Description: Learn a little more about the CEO who plans to change the way you think about grooming. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Sep 23, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1VbbIBy Questions for discussion: What sort of leader do you think Andy Katz-Mayfield is at Harry’s? How has he reduced the risks associated with a start-up business?
Volkswagen Names Matthias Müller, an Insider, as Chief Executive
Description: FRANKFURT — Volkswagen on Friday tried to come to terms with the emissions cheating scandal that has threatened to cripple one of the global automobile industry’s biggest corporations, naming Matthias Müller, the head of the company’s Porsche unit, as chief executive. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Sep 25, 2015 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/business/volkswagen-namesmuller-an-insider-as-chief-executive.html?ref=business&_r=0 Questions for discussion: Who is… Read more »
Volkswagen Begins Firing Execs In The Wake Of Pollution Scandal
Description: The automaker’s top U.S. manager and R&D chiefs of Audi and Porsche are out. Source: HuffingtonPost.com Date: Sep 24, 2015 Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/volkswagen-firing-scandal_5603f0b2e4b0fde8b0d157a9?utm_hp_ref=business Questions for discussion: What are the managerial consequences of this fiasco and the firing of top managerial talent? Could these decisions be harming the firm even more? How will the corporate culture… Read more »
Meet the woman remodeling construction
Description: Construction tends to be a man’s world, but McKissack & McKissack, a New York City company, successfully turned that convention on its head. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Sep 18, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1KmPKql Questions for discussion: Why is this an empowering story of success? What does it say to those who argue that… Read more »
The Icon A5 Is a Folding Personal Plane Designed for Fun
Description: For a quarter million dollars, and fewer training hours than are required to pilot most planes, you can take off in this two-seat hybrid seaplane. It’s almost too easy — and the founders of Icon Aircraft are betting that flying-for-fun will be a new growth sector for the private aviation market. (video by Zach Goldstein,… Read more »
China VCs Are Going Crazy for Girl Groups
Description: The 119-member SNH48 is one of the country’s top musical acts Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Sep 17, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-09-17/china-vcs-are-going-crazy-for-girl-groups Questions for discussion: Describe the method investors have used to create this entertainment phenomenon? Explain the reasons for its success? Do you think the method could work in America?
Robots Will Help Iron-Ore Miners Survive Price Rout
Description: When the rout in prices ends for the world’s iron-ore producers, those left standing probably will have more robots on their side. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: Sep 10, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-10/surviving-iron-ore-blood-bath-requires-a-lot-more-mining-robots Questions for discussion: How is robotics changing the mining industry? What are the managerial considerations of robotics?
A Path for Entrepreneurs, When a Start-Up Is Not the Goal
Description: When friends heard that James Higgins, 31, his wife, Trish, 29, and his brother Palmer, 27, left their traditional jobs in finance and sold their charming Greenwich, Conn., townhouse, they assumed it was for an exciting opportunity elsewhere. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Sep 09, 2015 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/business/smallbusiness/entrepreneurs-who-buy-small-companies.html?ref=smallbusiness Questions for discussion: What does the article say… Read more »
