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This issue features a Conversation with Jean Bartell Barber, vice chairman and treasurer of Bartell Drugs. The granddaughter of the company’s founder, George H. Bartell Sr., she and her brother provide third-generation leadership for the 122-year-old business. She talks about the benefits of being a privately held company, the challenges of dealing with the myriad of government regulations, and thriving in a competitive, technology-based business world. In Technology Watch, I review the need to “stitch together” the fast-paced world of technology with changes in business and the foundations of ethical values. Check out the updates to News Notables and InReview, as well.

Technology, Business, and Values

Issue 81, Technology Watch / By aerisman

The breakneck pace of change coming from the digital revolution is incompatible with the slower pace of change for our institutions and for us as people. We have yet to develop good coping strategies for this challenge at multiple levels. Changing Business Model One important example of this is the dramatic fracture in the foundation …

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Jean Bartell Barber: Third-Generation Leadership

2 Comments / Conversation, Issue 81 / By aerisman

Jean Bartell Barber is vice chairman and treasurer of Bartell Drugs, a privately held 58-store chain of drug stores in the greater-Seattle area of Washington state. With her brother, she provides the third generation of leadership for the drugstore chain founded by their grandfather in 1890.

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NewsNotables – Issue 81

Issue 81, NewsNotables / By aerisman

Barclays’ Former CEO Blames Regulators Bob Diamond blames regulators in rate-fixing scandal (The Seattle Times, July 5, 2012) Fallen banking titan Bob Diamond, Barclays’ former CEO, described regulators on both sides of the Atlantic as “party complicit” in a scandal involving the manipulation of a key interbank lending rate, telling a British parliamentary committee that …

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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

1 Comment / InReview, Issue 81 / By aerisman

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011. xvi, 630 pp. Walter Isaacson is CEO of the Aspen Institute, past chairman of CNN, and past managing editor of Time magazine. He was author or co-author of biographies for Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger, among other books. Steve Jobs was founder …

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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel

1 Comment / InReview, Issue 81 / By aerisman

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 245 pp. Michael J. Sandel is the Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is author or editor of seven other books including Justice. He frequently appears on PBS …

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