Acorda Therapeutics just announced that a drug that generated $266 million last year in revenues from helping patients with MS might now be useful for patients who suffered strokes. And, they are commencing research to see if the same drug…
I watch basketball maybe once or twice per year. But I couldn’t help getting caught up in the Cinderella story of March Madness, 2013 – Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). For those of you who watch even less than me,…
I recently read an article claiming that McDonalds was not in the fast food business, but was in the real estate business. The company buys locations and leases them to franchisees, using fast food as a way of ensuring stable…
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and I have a lot to say about online dating. But somewhere in between reading that I must love dogs or the admonition of “NO SERIAL DATERS” (I don’t know what that means, but it sounds…
I was not surprised to find out that my three personal New Year’s resolutions were also listed in the top ten resolutions of all Americans. I was surprised to find out, however, that every resolution on that list had the…
I recently returned from a ten day travelling and trekking trip in the mountains and deserts of Morocco. After one particularly challenging trek up a steep gorge on the edge of the Sahara desert, we encountered a nomadic family who…
My son’s fraternity had a huge problem. The University of Colorado had banned alcohol during rush parties. Fraternities use rush parties to get pledges. Alcohol makes freshman boys happy. Happy freshmen are easier to convert into pledges. More quality pledges…
Over the summer, a museum in Evanston, Indiana discovered a multi-million dollar piece of glass artwork by Picasso that had been gathering dust in their basement. It had been in storage for nearly 50 years. It makes one wonder how…
My son left for college last month and just before he left he received a text from a fraternity brother excited to see him. “I hate that guy”, my son declared, “What a poser!” A ‘poser’, for those of you…
I just read that Thompson Reuters expects S&P 500 second-quarter 2012 revenue growth to be only 2% compared with an average of 7% every quarter since 1998. Seconds later, I read how revenues for the electronic cigarette industry have now…