I just read “Some Arizona University Programs Threatened by Proposed Ban on Affirmative Action” by Peter Schmidt (author of Color and Money), and it reminded me of a few questions I asked of a few Black and Hispanic lawyers during a recent meeting. Here are paraphrased versions of the questions I asked.
1) Why would a [...]
A fellow entrepreneur and fraternity brother introduced me to LinkedIn in October 2005. He sent me an invitation to join his LinkedIn network, and I, respecting his opinion and business sense greatly, accepted his invitation forthwith. After joining his network, I began to read up on LinkedIn and other professional social networking websites. A few [...]
A friend of mine invited me to lead this morning’s class discussion for the undergraduate business ethics course he is teaching. We spent the first 90 minutes talking about a few juicy real-world business ethics challenges I’ve dealt with over the years, the sort of difficult cases his students’ textbooks were not likely to present [...]
There are many ways to combat poverty and political economic inequity in urban communities. I believe the integration of tens of thousands of asset-rich U.S. Blacks into our asset-poor U.S. Black communities would be one of the most effective ways. A higher percentage of asset-rich and asset-poor Blacks lived within only a few blocks of [...]
A few weeks ago, I sent the following email message to a few folks in my social network.
Dear Entrepreneurial Thinker:
I’m reaching out to a few dozen people in my network (entrepreneurs, investors, graduate students, lawyers, professors, managers, marketing executives, securities analysts, bloggers, engineers, classmates) in order to better determine whether I know of the best [...]