Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross
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By making these kinds of investments, we're making companies across Illinois more competitive. Because the business climate is so competitive, businesses have to be able to change and react.
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My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.
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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
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The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.
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Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.
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In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
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Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
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These are projects that preceded this administration, ... Many were partially paid. And we're (now) in a position to meet those commitments.
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You can have two family members disrupt everything that's going on, but you can have 15 who are well behaved, and it's no problem at all.
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We put all our money in this. It's a very entrepreneurial decision.
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There is always room for improvement, and we certainly take the auditor general's analysis to heart.
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Too many of these projects were promised money without the money to cover the cost of them.