Each day’s news flow across this commentator’s desk brings a series of news reports that point to the complicated world in which executives and boards make decisions – and which stakeholders and stockholders in some way react to!...

It’s taken years to get here, but in just a few months, the Summer Olympic Games 2008 will open in China. This “XXIS Olympiad” will be a pageant of nations with a stirring opening ceremony – and the spirit of the games...

The other shoes are dropping in China…boom, boom, boom…the government of China in the form of the State Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (whew!) or AQSIQ has yanked the licenses of 600+ Chinese...

A moment here for jingo-ism. Free and fair trade is good for everyone -- may the best products make it to the marketplace, at the best prices. Many more Americans are able to enjoy the good life -- we are a nation of passionate,...

I remember reading that back in the last great wave of European immigration to the USA (in the early 1900s), more than 100 languages were spoken in the New York City schools. (There are even more today!) But by third or fourth...

The world is continuing to shrink and become a village. "Red Hugo" (as Institutional Investor magazine characterized him four years ago in a cover story) was and is a threat to democracy and capitalism -- thus putting him and the...