The authors construct a timeline of critical events leading up to today’s highly networked and interconnected world with its ubiquitous social media technologies. The current state has been influenced by advances in media, technology, military defense, and commerce. One trend that stands out...

Evidence is mounting that the United States is losing its edge as a world leader when it comes to educating its citizens. It now ranks 13th in college graduation rates. In a recent 24-country Survey of Adult Skills, the U.S. ranked 16th in literary proficiency and 21st in numeracy proficiency....

Business is a very popular major today. Numerous articles have been written attacking the business major claiming that it is not rigorous enough and does not teach what it purports to do, especially in areas such as ethics. This paper discusses some of the issues with business as a major and...

In the corporate world, with its global, competitive environment, many firms have become learning organizations in order to survive and thrive. Similarly, 21st century universities that succeed will be lean, flexible, and nimble; Peter Drucker once asserted that in the not-so-distant future...

Companies that are going to thrive must have a soul. Those that are only concerned with “maximizing shareholder wealth” or “maximizing profit” will find themselves going the way Enron went. CEOs will have to lead the revolution and should be the ones exhorting executives to make...

The authors investigate the question of the optimal number of points to use on a rating scale using validity as the major criterion for comparison. In the reported study, perhaps surprisingly, the results suggest that the 11-point rating scale may be the best performer

In this paper it is argued that two kinds of capitalism are engaged in a great struggle in the United States. Both approaches are derived from the opinions of Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, who posited in The Wealth of Nations that universal self-interest and the “invisible hand” of...

The financial crisis of 2008, which followed Enron and other accounting scandals, has made it very clear that much of corporate America has lost its values. We have to rethink what we are teaching students. Since approximately 80% of first-year college students are interested in spirituality, it...

The government is spending a great deal of money in an effort to improve the completion rate of college students. So far, despite vast amounts of money spent, the six-year completion rate is a dismal 54%. This paper examines various solutions to this problem as well as how to reduce the great...

Critical to success in today's world, characterized by the knowledge economy, is the ability to communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of cultures, disciplines, and functional areas. In the knowledge economy, where people tend to work in groups, what matters most is the “c...