The Cutthroat World of Management Consulting
Don Cheadle The Oscar-nominated actor explains how he’s broadened his skill set and philanthropic efforts. Cheadle dishes background info on his new comedy for Showtime TV’s House of Lies. It’s about the underbelly of the consulting industry. Just a guess, but given some of his remarks about consultants, I’ll bet Cheadle won’t be a keynote […]
Andrew Jackson Beard
Railroad Safety In the 19th century, 6,500 people invented a device that would solve the problem of workers who were often killed or maimed during the process of attaching trains on the railroad track, and they applied for and received patents. Beard’s design was by far the most advanced, and although there seems to be […]
George Lucas
Business Superstar In the 1970s, with the exception of Disney Studios, movie merchandising was a tiny industry when George Lucas offered studio executives a deal they couldn’t refuse: he would work for free as the director of a new release in exchange for their granting him product licensing rights to the movie. Lucas’s offer was […]
National Association of Black Writers
The State of the Writing & Publishing Industry for People of Color The National Association of Black Writers held a conference in New York last weekend. C-SPAN’s Book TV broadcast the program. Segments such as Black Writer’s in the Marketplace, and, The Role of Social Media: Black Writers Take Literature to the web contains a helpful overview […]
Book Excerpt
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Starting a Successful Restaurant
Insights from Danny Meyer The CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group dishes with Charlie Rose about his success as a creative restaurateur. The creator of the Shake Shack and other successful food concepts, Meyer discusses how he changed from a political science major to the food industry, and eventually realized that being a chef was […]
Restaurant Impossible
Soups On? Owning a restaurant is at the top of the list for many budding entrepreneurs. But it is an industry with a high failure rate. A new program debuted in January to help failing restaurant owners, and after watching certain episodes, some people might be tempted never to eat out again. But overall, this is […]
Elouise Cobell
Accounting Activist Elouise Cobell grew up hearing stories about how the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian affairs shortchanged property owners. Native Americans were not being paid for the use of their land as had been agreed upon under a trust agreement with the federal government. Meanwhile, non-Indians were leasing the land and profiting from oil, […]
Music Publishing
Sweet & Sour Notes The debut in 1999 of Napster, the file sharing website, proved disastrous for many in the music publishing business, says Peer Music executive, Kathy Spanberger, “I call it the crash.” Widespread use of file sharing websites caused record sales to drop and companies began firing workers and instituting hiring freezes. Ten […]