Author: David

Today I want to thank my many friends who so gently, so genuinely, and so generously, care about my success and happiness. Thank you. Since you’re reading this, I’ll bet you have people (including me!)…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week!Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? Barely coming in under the wire today……

Michael Porter is a scholar, an author who has written 20 books, a ton of articles, and has made an indelible contribution to business knowledge, teaching, and practice. He is a chaired professor at Harvard…

I don’t sing. No karaoke. No drunken revery. “Happy birthday”? Nope. I’ll smile and mutter the words and let others sing out loud. Is it because I can’t sing? I don’t know. It’s not so…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week!Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? A little concerned about the weather forecast…

While we’re on the topic of team projects, an important thing to keep in mind is this: good friends aren’t always good teammates. Have you encountered this? I hope it didn’t cost you a friendship….

That’s me, the guy carrying a lunchbox from class to class. It’s not my lunch, though. It’s my stuff. My teaching stuff. Index cards. Crayons. Dry-erase markers and I hope an eraser.  My own personal…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week!Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? Today I am awash in a sea…

Yesterday, I wrote about how my marketing chauvinism needed to be corrected. Just because I’ve been teaching marketing for almost 30 years doesn’t mean everybody agrees that marketing is the best thing ever, especially if…

During my very first semester as a full-time marketing professor, my friend, an attorney, invited me to join him at a presentation related to his career. My friend’s work involves partnerships with architects and construction…