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Shareholders First, Ethics Later: The Duty of Ruthless Profit Maximization.

By hunter lang on December 11, 2024

I should be studying for exams or writing papers, but I saw this on LinkedIn this morning and immediately thought of biz orgs: NEWS OF THE WEEK! I also want to point out that the Elon Musk Twitter (sorry, X*) post indicated in the screenshot is FAKE NEWS, a completely fabricated/doctored X post, but this Simon Potter […]

Welcome (Back)

By Jon Festinger on September 6, 2024

Am excited to be teaching this course again. BizOrgs is a subject with multiple personalities. On one hand it merely deals with a set of tools – a fairly musty set of open-ended lego-like pieces that corporate frameworks are built from. On the other hand, the frameworks built from those pieces are often massive flashpoints […]

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Unbearable weirdness: The portrayal of In-House Counsel in “Pretty Woman”

By Jon Festinger on June 26, 2019

One thing I mentioned towards the end of the course was that someday I wanted to do a post reviewing the corporate law aspects of the 1990 Julia Roberts/Richard Gere film movie “Pretty Woman”. “Pretty Woman” is mostly awful, especially when watched from the vantage point of 2019. Leaving aside the myriad blatant instances of […]

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The Jet Mindset

By Jon Festinger on August 31, 2016

Been there. Not that often, but more than once. It really is amazing. You leave when you want. You arrive in privacy and calm. It is a privilege and it means you are privileged. I can’t find anything bad to say about actually flying on a medium sized corporate jet. But the metaphors disgorge a […]

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Capturing the Essence

By Jon Festinger on August 29, 2016

The first time I saw this cartoon I fell in love with it. So much so that I went out of pocket to license it from the New Yorker for this course (don’t worry it wasn’t that expensive). For me it captures the true essence of the corporate life – the excitement, belief and […]

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The Corporate Bear & Friends

By Jon Festinger on August 16, 2016

These are some of the happy artifacts of my corporate lives. Those old fashioned heavy seals date back to the early days of a legendary and storied B.C. company . They’ve no doubt borne witness to some interesting things… The fancy silver Tiffany paperweight container was sent out to his team by a truly great […]

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