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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

An Active Century, plus Almost One

Baseball lost a piece of history yesterday, as my great-aunt Edith died, about a week shy of what would have been her 101st birthday. Reference articles here, here, and here….

Health Care Thoughts: Hospitals Rising

…“talent war” for quick and nimble executives, and I fear the ascendency of “slick-and-useless” MBAs in the hospital industry. This is a little “inside baseball” but beyond politicals, law and…

On the Job Market

…is, and yes, I learned a lot at and enjoyed my job, but without getting into a lot of inside baseball, it was time to go. In fact, it has…

Some People Call Me Mau-rice

…Don’t get me wrong; I speak with people at AIG, and there are those there who firmly believe that Maurice “Not the Baseball Player” Greenberg could have saved them, Jack…