By Aditya Chakrabortty “Last week, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook launched two new iPhones that aren’t especially new. One is plastic (or “beautifully, unapologetically plastic”, in Apple-speak) and comes in five colours, which you can admire for a minute before popping it…
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Recognition of AIR research, opinions, and people in the media and elsewhere
Apple’s collapse: A scholarly perspective
By Rocco Pendola “Over the long weekend, I did one of the things I miss most about being a graduate student. I rediscovered there’s no good reason why a PhD dropout can’t read academic literature as often today as he…
HP rearranges the chairs in hopes of propelling turnaround
By Rachelle Dragani “Hewlett-Packard announced some changes to its executive lineup on Wednesday — the same day it posted a quarterly earnings report that fell short of analyst expectations.”… [Click HERE to read the full article]
The Alternative American Dream: Inclusive Capitalism
Christopher Mackin’s essay The Alternative American Dream: Inclusive Capitalism published on the PBS NewsHour : Paul Solman: Worker ownership: When I joined the labor force in 1970, it was the dream of many an “alternative” business, including ones I worked…
Apple is sacrificing innovation on the alter of shareholder value
By Eric Reguly “When Apple Inc. CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011, every Apple investor, supplier and customer had the same question: Would the creative energy that turned Apple into the most successful technology company die with him?”……
Yahoo puts on 50 new thinking caps
By Rachelle Dragani “Yahoo plans to breathe some new life into its research and development lab by hiring 50 new PhDs by the end of the year, according to a Bloomberg report. Spearheaded by CEO Marissa Mayer, the initiative already…
Wall Street’s rent seeking vampires kill innovation
By L. Randall Wray “Here’s the conclusion, which is very much in line with my post from Monday: “the U.S. financial sector no longer serves the productive sector—in fact, it may be killing it.” Here’s Lynn’s summary of one of…
How big finance crushes innovation and holds back our economy
By Lynn Stuart Parramore “Whatever happened to innovation in America? President Obama told us that our future depends on it. Across the political spectrum, everyone pretty much agrees that innovation is vital to prosperity.” [Click HERE to read the full article]
How a libertarian used Ayn Rand’s crazy philosophy to drive Sears into the ground
By Lynn Stuart Parramore “Eddie Lampert, the legendary hedge fund manager, was once hailed as the “Steve Jobs of the investment world” and the second coming of Warren Buffett. These days, he claims the number 2 spot on Forbes’ list of America’s worst CEOs.”……
Industrial policy reconsidered in a digital world
By Kenji E. Kushida and John Zysman “In our current era, the advent of digital technologies and accelerating globalization is driving ever-faster commoditization of firms and products. With rapidly improving Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools, manufacturing is decomposed with…
