Nice book.

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/...

 Starvation: The Role of Agri-business

"Business Not As Usual"

What is happening to small businesses ? I was asking myself this question after coming back home to Puerto Rico from college in Pennsylvania. I was surprised about how many of the small businesses I grew up with had closed down during the year I was gone, and how the stores we have now at home are the same ones in Pennsylvania and everywhere else- Walmart, Wendy's, KFC, Subway, etc. I had never thought about it before, but it stroke me now after being gone away for sometime. What happened to small businesses ? What will happen to communities we grew up in when the small businesses are gone forever ? Will there be a day when we will all be customers of multinationals ? What will this mean for diversity of cultures in the world ?

Can such a concept really happen? As I perused the Sunday New York Times, an article immediately caught my eye: "Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World."  I thought to myself: "I'd love to make some money, but I'd rather save the world." But the article suggests that people in the business world are starting to replace the "but" with an "and."

A recent study found that men dominated top jobs at U.S. corporations, out numbering women six to one. Where are the women? According to Catalyst, a non profit group that promotes women in the workplace, the rate of women securing top jobs was increasing steadily between 1995 and 2005, but in recent years this rate has slowed down significantly.