Executive Speeches articles from December 2002

Executive Speeches archives from December 2002

Fantastic voyage: rewriting the rules of business.(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... Thank you, John for that kind introduction, and good afternoon, everyone! It's nice to have the support of another kid from Southern Indiana here in the big city. And it's wonderful to be back in Chicago. My wife, Molly, grew up here......

Classics and war: battling the darkness.(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... The formal study of classics in the public schools and universities has been in trouble the last few decades--if relatively weak high school Latin enrollments, less than 600 BAs a year (one for every ten professors), a glut of unemployed PhDs,...

Integrated battlespace--& the self-synchronizing soldier.(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... It is a great privilege to be here. As many of you know, there's a saying at West Point, "Much of the history we teach... was made by people we taught." Certainly, the same may be said of the Army War College. The U.S. Army has a long and...

We are where we are because of where we are.(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... As I was preparing for this morning... I found my thoughts drifting back to my days as a bond manager. I recalled a conversation I had years ago with my boss, John Konrad, who headed one of the investment departments. I was still pretty...

Wittgenstein's bedrock: what business ethicists do.(Ronald Bernbeim, researcher on Global Business Ethics Principles)(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... "If I have exhausted the justification, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say `This is simply what I do.'" So wrote Wittgenstein about his work as a philosopher. Enron and the stream of cases...

The role of higher education in economic development.(Luis M. Proenza, president of The University of Akron)(Transcript)
December 1, 2002... Thank you, Roy Church, for your much too kind introduction and for your distinguished leadership of Lorain Community College. Your success has been impressive, and its recognition across the country is richly deserved. And thank you ladies...