Harvard blog

CEOs are still paid too much, period. Flame on! Am I the only person grossly offended by current executive pay? The Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis took home $20 million for the job he did last year. As consolation for the 12,500 people he'll be laying off...

Why do we keep a sex offender's registry? It's time to renew my driver's license, and the form that came in the mail had a big black banner proclaiming that all sex offenders must remember to register with the local police department. Am I the only person who wonders...

Why does voicemail think we're stupid? I've been having problems with my phone system and am looking for a voicemail systems that lets me receive voice and fax messages by email, web, or phone. I've been trying different services and marveling at how uniformly they...

What's with UPS "Brown" anyway? A friend of mine in high school spiked his hair and wanted to be known as "Spike." But that phase passed, and eventually the haircut became exactly that: a haircut. Now, we think of him as a person, not a hairstyle. When it comes to...

Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 "The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.... The leader of genius must have the ability to make...

Scientific data suppressed for dogma? As a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business Schools, two institutions noted for doing empirical, statistically-valid research in their areas, I like the idea of data. Science is cool. You can actually tell things about the way the...

Think twice before buying "activation required" software Microsoft has certainly endorsed a dangerous trend: software that requires activation to install and run it. More and more, it's not enough that you purchase software and install it with a serial number they...

Put your trust in technology and you'll enjoy an interesting life Well. Isn't that special? It seems someone put our home voice line into a fax database somewhere. Though unsolicited faxes are illegal, we've been awakened virtually every morning for the last several...

For Goodness Sake, Use Precautions! Another email virus trashes the net. We're surprised? Wow. The internet is once again being crippled by a ho hum computer virus. And surprise, surprise--it spreads via the Microsoft Outlook address book and by people clicking on...