Huge fortunes made in Silicon Valley, natural resources, retailing, hedge fund management, private equity investing and Internet startups like Google and Facebook seem likely to remain intact if not appreciate during the next decade.
But to this observer, those proclaiming the daily deal business as dead, and encouraging Groupon to instead invest in more general online retailing, seem as short-sighted as Groupon management.
Randolph Barker, a dog-loving management professor, monitored the stress levels of employees at a retailing and manufacturing business with a 14-year history of allowing dogs in the workplace.