Lots of interesting tidbits to share this week, so let's get on with it ... Gluttons for Punishment Jim Huntzinger and Dwayne Butcher have an un…

Imagine you run a lemonade stand in front of your house, and you do pretty well at it. Now suppose I live a thousand miles away from you, but I decide…

My mother was proud to see me head off long ago to Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati - an expensive, Jesuit school with demanding academic standa…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we explore the gender ratio and a couple of surprising impacts. This morning's Wall Street Journal had a re…

The Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on the U.S. Postal Service a couple weeks ago was a real stunner - filled with so many juicy tidbits that it to…

I'm sure the warning is too late, and as we speak St Peter is completely overwhelmed with the urgency of applying the Theory of Constraints to the…

What do you get when you combine five bankers, McKinsey and a CEO who knows nothing but marketing? Propriety prevents me from getting too graphic as t…

A year ago I wrote about the sad story of the Simmons Mattress company, a well run outfit that got caught in the cross hairs of the investment bankers…