This paper examines the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah to derive important lessons dealing with moral and spiritual leadership. Ezra and Nehemiah had different leadership styles but understood the importance of ethical leadership. Corporate and governmental organizations would benefit from...

Recently, President Obama has proposed that the Department of Education start ranking colleges based on “value.” School rankings have, for some time, formed an important component of students’ decisions on which institutions to attend. However, as we illustrate in this paper, such rankings...

The Talmud, the compilation of Jewish oral law, is over 1500 years old and includes extensive discussions of business ethics. This paper presents four levels of ethical behavior in business gleaned from the words of the Talmud. At the lowest level, an individual is just barely inside the law;...

Donald Trump has served as President of the United States for more than two years. His performance in office has provided many valuable lessons about leadership, especially about what not to do. This paper offers a partial list of leadership principles one can deduce from observing his...

The authors posit that one should not take a binary approach to business ethics because there are gradations. They propose that firms may be classified according to the following metric: Level I: The Totally Unethical Organization; Level II: The Legalistic Unethical Organization; Level III: The...

Over the past few decades, there has been tremendous growth in entrepreneurship, along with a concomitant resurgence of spirituality in corporate America and much of the world; people want their jobs to have meaning. The Hebrew Bible, especially the Pentateuch (Torah), has had a profound effect...

The problem of long wait in queue in apparent wherever there is a waiting-line system, but the cost of waiting is not the same for all customers. The authors propose a new model of waiting, called Waiting Line Segmentation. Waiting lines are segmented into customers who are willing to pay a...

One of the most important skills to possess in the global Internet Age is creativity. People who are creative and innovative will be of great value to any organization that employs them. Moreover, creativity is a valuable skill to have if one wishes to be an entrepreneur. This paper demonstrates...

This paper demonstrates how greed, incompetence, and misuse of the so-called corporate/business model are wreaking havoc with academe. College administrators create departments and schools in order to fatten their CVs, not to improve quality. They become more concerned about increasing their...

This paper examines the benefits of diversity to the organization – such as innovation, growth, and creativity – as well as the challenges to diversity, including both the obvious, well-known forms of discrimination and the more subtle forms. The subtle forms of discrimination include not...