Strategy’s Strategist: An Interview with Richard Rumelt

McKinsey Quarterly interviewed Richard Rumelt in November 2007. Rumelt is author of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy and a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “In 1972 he became the first person to uncover a statistical link between corporate strategy and profitability, finding that moderately diversified companies outperform more diversified ones… Being good at what you do matters a lot more, no matter what industry you’re in.” Continue reading “Strategy’s Strategist: An Interview with Richard Rumelt”

Doomsday Capitalists

Julie Turkewitz wrote an article for the New York Times titled A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists.

« Mr. Hall has converted a former military nuclear missile vault into a luxury condominium built 15 stories into the Earth’s crust. He is a leader among a new group of real estate developers investing in the nation’s central prairies and Western foothills: doomsday capitalists. » Continue reading “Doomsday Capitalists”