All Posts Tagged With: "opportunity"
Opportunity Knocks Late
Larry Schweikart teaches history at the University of Dayton. Perhaps it is the emphasis on youth in marketing and advertising—aside from a few prescription-drug commercials these days—that creates the impression that the rich are all young or have their career paths set by age 30. In fact, however, America’s business landscape blooms with people who [...]
1Feb2003 | Larry Schweikart | 2 comments | ContinuedMarket Worship?
As we approach the millennium, the pace of economic change quickens. Consumers have always wanted better products at lower prices. But in today’s economy, the market delivers “better and cheaper” more quickly than at any time in human history The time between product improvements gets shorter and shorter. Competition drives prices lower. It’s a wonderful [...]
1Jan1999 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Wild West Meets Cyberspace
In 1848 Americans received the startling news that the vast territory they had just acquired from Mexico included tremendous riches. California, previously a distant, sleepy Mexican province whose economy was based on trading cattle hides and tallow for manufactured goods, was actually brimming with gold. There it was, just lying on the ground. Tens of [...]
1Jul1998 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | ContinuedSweatshops for the New World Order
Poverty is an anomaly to many Americans. When they encounter it in foreign countries they view it as an aberration of human relations: the rich are exploiting the poor who are forced to work for “slave labor.” In contemporary terminology, “profit-seeking multinational corporations are operating monstrous sweatshops for the New World Order.” What these Americans [...]
1Nov1996 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Walter Turnbull Inspires Self-Help at the Boys Choir of Harlem
Marisa Manley is president of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd., Manhattan. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., and the Wall Street Journal. The Boys Choir of Harlem helps renew the American dream. The boys are poor. They’re menaced by gangs and tempted by drugs. Three-quarters come from broken homes. Reportedly over [...]
1Jun1996 | Marisa Manley | 0 comments | Continued-
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