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Coach K on Connecting with Players: Lessons for Business
The excitement of college basketball is in full swing. This past summer I read an insightful column in the Wall Street Journal by guest author, Mike Krzyzewski, Hall of Fame coach of the Duke...
View ArticleEssay: The Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong and a Christian Perspective...
Prices on homes in America fell dramatically starting in late 2006, after an unprecedented run up in prices over the previous eight years. The fallout from this drop was felt around the world in the...
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Essay: Occupy Cyberspace!
First there was Occupy Wall Street, but now the noisiest protest seems to be coming from those who wish to occupy the Internet. The irony of it all is that this time, it’s the powerful corporations who...
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Book Review: Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith
by Shane Hipps (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009. 208 pp) Before committing to professional vocational ministry, Shane Hipps held a position with Porsche Cars North America working on communications...
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Film Review: Black Swan
Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2010 Directed by Darren Aronofsky Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel Film review by Donovan Richards Keep (Over) Working We all find times when the...
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Book Review: Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke, edited by C.B. Macpherson (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980; originally published in 1690. 124 pp) Widely known as the Father of Liberalism, John Locke’s work in...
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Essay: Lessons on Spiritual Capital from Silicon Valley
An occasional essay by Bruce Baker, presented to the Center for Integrity in Business What does it take to get a new company off the ground? Or to bring a new product to market? We all know that new...
View ArticleDigital Homo Economicus
An occasional essay by Bruce Baker, presented to the Center for Integrity in Business All economic theories are built on presumptions about human nature. What happens when our understanding of human...
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Book Review: Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships:...
by Patricia H. Werhane, Scott P. Kelley, Laura P. Harman and Dennis J. Moberg (New York: Routledge, 2010. vi + 163 pp) Patricia Werhane is the widely-published chair of Business Ethics at the Darden...
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Book Review: Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition
by Michael A. Stelzner (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 255 pp) Michael Stelzner is CEO and founder of Social Media Examiner, an influential business blog boasting a monthly readership of over...
View ArticleBeing Faithful with Big Data
“Big data” refers to information that is too large to be handled by a simple operating system. It can be used to research a broad spectrum of information such as purchases from various businesses, or...
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Book Review: Telegraph Avenue
by Michael Chabon (Harper, 2012. 480 pp) Michael Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of numerous bestselling books, and Chairman of the Board of the MacDowell Colony. He, his wife (novelist...
View ArticleDoes Business Matter to God?
Yes, says Jeff Van Duzer, SPU provost and former dean of the School of Business and Economics. Read his award-winning article in SPU's Response magazine.
View ArticlePeople vs profits?
In this interview, Jeff Van Duzer, Provost at Seattle Pacific University (and former Dean of SPU's School of Business & Economics) answers questions about layoffs, people vs. profits, pay scales,...
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Television Review: Mad Men: Season 6
Created by Matthew Weiner (Lionsgate Television, Weiner Bros., American Movie Classics) Starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Karthieser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, John Slatterly, and...
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Book Review: What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 2010. 256 pp) Born in rural Kentucky, Wendell Berry is a farmer, critic, and prolific author. He has published many novels, essays, poems, and short stories. Berry...
View ArticleLabor Day lessons from baseball
Brooklyn Dodgers' President Branch Rickey paved the way for Jackie Robinson's success and the desegregation of baseball, simultaneously demonstrating that a desire for profit can coexist with a desire...
View ArticleWhat is Spiritual Capital? Ruminating on the Hidden Asset of Capitalism
Rev. Dr. Bruce Baker, Ph.D. September 21, 2013 Spiritual capital is becoming a hot topic. It helps explain the appeal of new ideas like Bill Gates’s “creative capitalism” and John Mackey’s “conscious...
View ArticleCompetence, Character, Leadership, and Information Systems
Dr. Gerhard Steinke, Ph.D., CISSP September 30, 2013 “Graduating people of competence and character” is built into Seattle Pacific University‘s mission statement. The School of Business and Economics’...
View ArticleBoasting about the next sale (James 4:13-17)
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit" - 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your...
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