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Only honorable business leaders can stop corruption

The World Economic Forum’s blog this week is dedicated to combating corruption.  In my contribution I argue that only by changing the dominant value system […]

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Realignment? Misalignment? Reshuffling?

All this talk about athletic conference realignments reminds me of M. C. Escher’s Waterfall lithograph, where water flows down through a series of canals to […]

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The Mission of the University according to Ortega

A Mason colleague recently directed me to Spanish, 20th Century philosopher Ortega’s essay on the mission of the university (José Ortega y Gasset, 1931, Misión […]

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The best university FOR the world

Prof. Tom Lovejoy recently reminded me of the conversation we had over lunch at Barra de Tijuca in Rio last summer, during the Rio+20 U.N. […]

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Why we have (public) universities

As we continue the work of producing a new vision for the university, I was reminded of Louis Menand’s piece in The New Yorker: Why […]