Recent Articles by Jack Gordon
Ask Terry Trippler
Air-travel expert Terry Trippler will help you find the lowest fare to where you're going. But he thinks you'll pay in the end. Call his often-surprising insights "aironomics."
September 2007
What Fair Isaac Predicts
Loan repayments, consumer purchases, the likelihood that patients will take their medication—oh, and its own double-digit growth rates. New CEO Mark Greene sees a solid future in new applications and integration of Fair Isaac's "predictive analytics."
August 2007
The Change Agents
When new technology will alter the way people work, teaching them to use the software ain't the half of it.
August 2007
Here's Your Stock. Here's the Catch...
Stock options are losing favor as executive incentives—thanks to angry shareholders and new accounting rules.
June 2007
Dave Kloeber Has a Plane to Catch
The busiest entrepreneur you’ve never heard of runs a private-jet company—just to get around to his other businesses.
June 2007
Dan Seman Will Protect You
He says “guard” is the world’s oldest profession, and it’s a job he loves. Is that despite or because of the puffed-up celebrities, the sycophants who attend them, and the chair-hurling CEOs? Hard to say.
May 2007
Degrees of Leadership
Can the less familiar counterpart to the MBA degree prepare managers for the challenges they really face on the job?
May 2007
Bob Walker's Plan to Transform the Global Energy Industry
At Bixby Energy Systems, he's starting with corn-burning stoves but expects ultimately to change the way homes, businesses, and power plants run.
March 2007
The Journey of Gene Sit
Gene Sit has taken Sit Investment Associates from $1 million to $6.6 billion under management. And through a family history of war, revolution, and immigration, he says, "We have confirmed what is possible in America."
February 2007
Patent Pending... and Pending... and Pending
What's the one government agency that business leaders wish had more money? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
January 2007
Small, Public, and Under the Gun
Big public companies have complained for years that Sarbanes-Oxley has made accounting an expensive nightmare. Now small companies are looking down the barrel.
October 2006
Irv the Boat Maker
Even when he was “raiding” companies in the ’80s, Irwin Jacobs was also busy building them. He’s made Genmar into a $1 billion boat manufacturer. (Thank heaven it’s private and doesn’t have to please its shareholders every 90 days)
October 2006
Irv The Boat Maker
Even when he was “raiding” companies in the ’80s, Irwin Jacobs was also busy building them. He’s made Genmar into a $1 billion boat manufacturer
October 2006
Private Property Panic
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Kelo decision on eminent domain sent Minnesota lawmakers scrambling. But developers and attorneys ask, where’s the fire?
July 2006
Slideshow - Return of Dr. Kurt Amplatz
He started AGA Medical to make devices that close holes in patients’ hearts. Then a court order shut him out of his own business. At 82, he’s back.
May 2006
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