Frederick E. Allen
Verified
As seen in:
Forbes,
UOL,
The Telegraph,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
NPR,
The Atlantic,
Fortune,
Harvard Business Review,
Slate
and
I am a former editor at Forbes, American Heritage, and New York magazines.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Frederick E. Allen
Malcolm Gladwell Gets Steve Jobs Wrong
Image via CrunchBase Malcolm Gladwell is getting a lot of attention this week for an article in The New Yorker in which he says that "in the eulogies that followed Jobs's death, last month, he was repeatedly referred to as a large-scale visionary and inventor.
What Went Wrong with Cathie Black
The post mortems are flying after Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York dismissed Cathie Black as his schools chancellor yesterday, after just three months on the job. The explanations of what went wrong are broadly falling into two camps: inexperience and personality. Those who blame Black’s inexperience point out that she had no past involvement with public education and no knowledge of its needs and challenges.
The Amazingness of Spotify
A Spotify iPhone screen shot. I've been passionate about music all my life, and my music world has just turned upside down. Why? Spotify. Suddenly the CDs I collected for decades are obsolete. iTunes feels obsolete. Something better has come along. Now, for just $10 a month I have with me almost everywhere I go a collection of 15 million recordings, instantly accessible, with excellent sound quality. A few months ago I blogged about Netflix's lousy selection of movies.
Apocalypse Then: When Y2K Didn’t Lead To The End Of Civilization
For a time 20 years ago, millions of people, including corporate chiefs and government leaders, feared that the internet was going to crash and shatter on New Year’s Eve and bring much of civilization crumbling down with it. This was all because computers around the world weren’t equipped to deal with the fact of the year 2000. Their software thought of years as two digits.
To Lead Better, Lose Confidence
Yes, to lead better lose confidence. That's the implication of a study led by Zakary Tormala of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, as just reported in Canada's Financial Post. Why would this be so? Because expressing uncertainty, as opposed to utter confidence, "draws people in," Tormala says.
That's All Folks: Why the Writing Is on the Wall at Microsoft
This a guest post by Philippe Silberzahn, professor of strategy and innovation at EMLYON Business School, and Milo Jones, professor of strategy at IE Business School. They are finishing a book on strategic surprises at the CIA and blog together at silberzahnjones.com. A control expert preparing for the eventual collapse. Should you ever fire the chief executive of a company that just reported record third quarter revenues and double-digit operating income growth?
The Five Elements of the Best CSR Programs
This is a guest post written by Paul Klein, the founder of Impakt Corp., a Toronto-based advisory services firm that helps large companies align business and social outcomes. Does your company have what it takes to be a leader? High performance is traditionally measured against key business imperatives including competitive differentiation, sales, attracting and retaining talent, operational efficiency, return on investment and profitability. But that is no longer enough.
Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Here's How
I became the Leadership Editor of Forbes in December 2008, just as the American business world was crashing down and taking the jobs and homes of millions with it. Had I started the job a year or two earlier, I might have found that covering things like how to be a manager, ... MORE
Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week
Image by Getty Images via @daylife We saw the future in some unexpected places this week. Like in bowling. That's an industry that seemed lost in the past a decade ago and now offers a shining example of how to turn around a declining brand and race ahead into better times, according to Steve Johnson.
Leadership Lesson From Donald Trump: When You Lose, Claim Victory--And Blame Your Teammates
resident Trump addresses the US Naval Academy graduating class on May 25, 2018, saying, "Winning is... [+] such a great feeling, isn't it?" (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Getty In the president's interview with Chris Wallace yesterday, Wallace pointed out that the recent midterm elections had added up to "a historically big defeat in the House" for Republican candidates. Trump's response: "I won the Senate, and that's historic, too. . . .
気に入らない女性は女性として侮辱 トランプ流リーダーのあり方
ドナルド・トランプ（Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images） トランプ大統領は先週、フロリダ州ブロワード郡で進行中だった中間選挙の開票作業について、こう発言した。「これに関わっている人物を見てみれば──今回の場合は女性だが──彼女はひどい経歴の持ち主だ。出所の分からない票が突如として出てきている」トランプは、フロリダ州都市部の開票作業に時間がかかっていることにいら立っていた（都市部の票は民主党に流れる傾向にある）。だが、なぜわざわざ「今回の場合は女性だが」と言う必要があったのか？ これが一体何の論拠になるというのだろう？...
Leadership Lesson From Donald Trump: When Threatened By A Woman, Insult Her As A Woman
President Donald Trump this morning said, about the ongoing vote count in Broward County, Florida, "If you look at the person, in this case a woman, involved, she has had a horrible history, and all of a sudden they're finding votes out of nowhere." He is upset that counting votes in urban areas of Florida takes a long time—and that those urban votes tend to go for Democrats. But why throw in "in this case a woman"? How does that strengthen his argument?
Leadership Lesson From Donald Trump: Get Someone Else To Do Your High-Level Firing
Donald Trump may have made his name as a media celebrity by saying "You're fired" over and over on The Apprentice, but has he ever said it in real, non-reality TV life? Today he fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions—by having chief of staff John Kelly call him on the phone. Throughout his presidency Trump has ducked to hard work of going face-to-face with even the highest-level direct reports he wanted out.
世界で最も革新的なリーダートップ10
イノベーションのスーパースターを他と隔てるものとは何か？...
10 líderes mais inovadores do mundo
Dyer e Furr classificaram os líderes com o maior capital de inovação segundo quatro qualidades essenciais: reputação por inovação (observando a cobertura da mídia em cinco anos), conexões e redes sociais (no Twitter e LinkedIn), histórico de criação de valor (com base no crescimento do valor de mercado de suas empresas) e as expectativas dos investidores em relação à criação de valor futuro (medida pelos investidores de alto nível com ações em suas companhias).
The World's Most Innovative Leaders
What sets apart the superstars of innovation? Not just creativity and genius ideas. Nikola Tesla may have been more brilliant than Thomas Edison, but Edison had huge successes that changed the world, and Tesla died penniless. What Edison had that Tesla didn't is what professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Nathan Furr of INSEAD business school call innovation capital.
The War That Made Us Who We Are
This article and other stories of the Civil War can be found in the Post’s Special Collector’s Edition, The Saturday Evening Post: Untold Stories of the Civil War. —This account appeared in the March/April 2011 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The war fought by Americans against Americans on American soil, for four excruciating years is still the deadliest war in American history.
Private Equity Has Something To Add To The Diversity Discussion. Yes, Really.
This article is by Charles Gray, who co-leads Egon Zehnder's U.S. diversity practice and focuses on private equity, financial technology, and technology officer recruiting. Google “Uber” and “diversity” and one of the first articles to pop up heralds the startup’s hiring of Bozoma Saint John—a former Apple executive and African-American woman described as a “badass” by Wired—as its chief brand officer.
How Straight People Ruined Provincetown
The brown leather straps wrapped my chest a little too tightly as I tilted my head to the side, analyzing my outfit in the mirror, my nose scrunched up in uncertainty. Having opted for a non-traditional Steampunk-inspired harness, I was having trouble matching cuffs to its auburn shade. It looked as if it was made from an old armchair from Downton Abbey, with brass fixtures and buckles.
To Become A Great Innovator, Get Left Back In Fourth Grade: Induction At The Inventors Hall of Fame
"When I was in the fourth grade, I had difficulty reading," Marshall Jones explained. "On the other hand I was doing seventh or eight grade math." His teacher told him he really should take the year over, and last night he thanked that teacher, as he accepted his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, becoming one of more than 500 great innovators honored since the institution was founded, in 1973.
Donald Trump Sues Bill Maher for Calling Him the Son of an Orangutan
Is that hair color too simian for comfort? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Donald Trump makes it awfully easy for people to get under his skin.
The Man With the World's Largest Negative Carbon Footprint and 15 Other Geniuses Honored
Victor Lawrence was a child working at a harbor in Ghana when his father died and he decided that he'd have to study hard and go to college. He studied so hard that he ended up getting advanced degrees from the University of London and going to work in the United [...]
CCL3 in the tumor microenvironment augments the antitumor immune response
CCL3 is important in orchestrating cellular contacts in vaccinated lymph nodes (LNs) and enhancing memory T cell generation. Furthermore, dendritic cells (DCs) have been shown to mediate both tumor-tolerance and antitumor immunity in some tumor models. We hypothesize that incorporating CCL3 into tumor vaccines can enhance antitumor immunity. We injected into the footpad of naïve recipients, wild-type tumors (WTTUs) or CCL3-secreting (L3TUs) colon tumors (CT26).
Quantification of lymph node transit times reveals differences in the trafficking behavior of regulatory versus conventional CD4+ T cells
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) express the canonical marker Foxp3 and are critical for suppressing the immune response in homeostatic and inflammatory conditions. Despite how widely studied CD4+Foxp3+ Tregs are in mice, their physiologic trafficking and scanning behavior of antigen-presenting cells in secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) have yet to be quantitatively analyzed in the intravital setting.
America's Best Consulting Firms For Strategic Management: An Infographic
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Forbes teamed up with the research team Statista to identify the best management consulting firms in America, and we rated more than 250 companies, evaluating their performance in 15 industries and in 16 functional areas, such as strategy, marketing, sales, and sustainability. Here are the top 10 consultancies in the crucial area of strategic management, all of which earned either four or five stars out of a possible five in the rankings.
Why the NFL's Response to Its Attackers Is Out of Bounds
This article is by Hank Cardello, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat. In the 1960s it was Rachel Carson vs. the chemical industry and Ralph Nader vs. the automakers. Fifty years later we have Dr. Bennet Omalu [...]
The Presidential Candidates All Have Bad Reputations, Reputation Institute Finds
Bernie Sanders has the least bad reputation, but even his, with a score of 58.2 out of 100, qualifies as "weak," the institute says. Even weaker are Marco Rubio, at 47.2, Ted Cruz, at 41.8, and Hillary Clinton, at 40.7. Donald Trump lies way at the bottom, with an outright "poor" score of [...]
America's Best Employers: An Infographic
Forbes asked the research firm Statista to identify the best employers in the nation, and Statista surveyed some 30,000 workers to find out the answer.
CEOs Of America's Best Employers 2016
Marathon Petroleum, rank: 1Employees: 45,340To create this ranking, we looked at the CEOs (and presidents, if the employer did not have a CEO) of the top 20 companies on Forbes's America's Best Employers list. Employee counts denote the number of workers in the U.S. unless otherwise stated. Photo: BLOOMBERG NEWS
William Koch - Forbes
|
Age 75 Source Of Wealth oil, investments Self-Made Score 3 Residence Palm Beach, FL Citizenship United States Marital Status Married Children 6 Education Bachelor of Arts / Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Koch on Forbes Lists Litigious brother of Charles and David Koch - he is David's twin - William Koch formed his own carbon company after selling his stake in Koch Industries for $470 million in 1983.
By Daniel Fisher, Deniz Cam, Naazneen Karmali Verified, Bryan Rich, Antoine Gara Verified, Grace Chung, Megha Bahree Verified, Chris Helman Verified, Russell Flannery Verified, Robert Wood, Dolia Estevez, Jim Gorzelany Verified, Kurt Badenhausen Verified, Frederick E. Allen Verified, Katia Savchuk Verified, Chloe Sorvino Verified
|
Forbes
Verified
Canada's Best Employers 2016 [Infographic]
Which employers are held in the highest regard by Canada's workforce? Forbes and Statista conducted a survey across 25 industries to find out.
Forbes' 2016 Presidential Candidate Wealth List
In September 2015, Forbes put together the definitive wealth list of the 2016 presidential candidates. To piece together a precise picture of their individual wealth, Forbes used a variety of documents, starting with financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission. Candidates are only required to report their net worth in ranges, so the Forbes wealth team dug deep, looking through property records, mortgage papers, and tax records when available.
Canada's 25 Best Employers 2016
Working with online statistics provider Statista.com, Forbes asked more than 8,000 Canadian workers to determine, on a scale of zero to 10, how likely they were to recommend their employer to someone else. Further, how did they feel about the otheremployers in their industry?The resulting list includes 250 employers across 25 industries where employees feel that the company has their back. The top 25 are featured here.
America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2016: Strategy
The companies that appear in this gallery garnered the greatest number of recommendations in the Strategy functional area on the full list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms. They are presented here in alphabetical order and by rating.For the full list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2016, click here. Photo: Shutterstock
The Republican War on Philosophers [Video]
Philosophers came under unexpected repeated attack last night at the fourth Republican presidential debate. I discuss the aggression in this short video.
Live-Blogging the Fourth Republican Debate
11:31: Final thoughts: What a change from the preceding CNBC debate. Everything about this one made pretty much all the candidates look better--fewer people onstage; relatively non-combative questions, almost all of them about policy; more time for answers and rebuttals. I don't think there were huge clear winners and losers, in terms of temperament, what I was looking for especially in the debate (see my opening paragraph at bottom), or in general.
The Republican War On Philosophy
1 week ago Campaign 2016: Who Rules Social Media? http://www.forbes.com/video/4588256745001/ http://www.forbes.com/video/4588256745001/ {"generic":"Campaign 2016: Who Rules Social Media?","twitter":"Campaign 2016: Who Rules Social Media?"} video/brightcove/4588256745001 22 hours ago Donny Deutsch On Donald Trump: Does He Really Want To Be President?
Who Won the Third Republican Debate in Terms of Temperament? Nobody
No candidate looked very presidential at the third Republican presidential debate tonight. It was probably inevitable. Ten people shared the stage, each getting just sixty seconds a shot to answer questions from a panel in love with gotcha questions and devoted to trying to start fights among the candidates.
Who Won The Second Presidential Debate In Terms Of Temperament?
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Donald Trump had an answer to that question right at the start of tonight's interminable three-hour marathon: "I think I have a great temperament," he said, with characteristic modesty. He added, "My temperament is very good, very calm, but we will be respected." He wasn't always calm or respected during the debate, though. Nor did he even seem to be completely in command of himself.
Election 2016: Who's Running?
Ted Cruz was the first Republican to enter the race. Cruz made his name on the national stage with a 21-hour anti-Obamacare filibuster in 2013. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Who Won the First Republican Debate in Terms of Temperament?
Who really looked and acted presidential during the two long hours of the Fox News debate tonight? I’d say the two winners were Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Clinton because the candidates hardly mentioned her. She came through it virtually unscathed and thus undiminished. Jeb Bush because, despite all his recent flubs and verbal flailing, he came across as the grownup in the room.
Long Live the Queen of the Bowery
Previous to Saint Mazie, I've only ever written about characters I've made up from scratch before. Then I read an essay by Joseph Mitchell in his wonderful collection Up in the Old Hotel, and I became entranced by the idea of writing about a real person: Mazie Phillips aka The Queen of the Bowery. She ran a movie theater on the Lower East Side for decades and was the heart of her community, befriending eccentrics, children, and all the bums on Skid Row.
When a Man Asks for Help, He's Considered a Less Competent Leader, Study Says
No man is an island, entire to himself, but he’d better act like one anyway if he wants to be considered a leader, new research says. A team of scholars led by Prof. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, performed two experiments to reach that conclusion. Their ultimate takeaway: Of course men have to ask for help when they lead, but they’d better be careful about it.
Anger Is the Mother of Invention: The Amazing Accomplishments of This Year's Inductees Into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
How do you become one of the world’s greatest living inventors? By being “always angry,” says Shuji Nakamura, and “asking why, why, why?” His boss told him there could be no such thing blue light-emitting diodes, and “I became so angry at my boss I told him to let me do it.” He found a way, and thereby made possible every flat-screen display and LED light bulb in existence.
Pixar’s 22 Golden Rules of Storytelling
Back in 2011, then Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats (now freelancing) tweeted 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar. Coats learned the ‘guidelines’ from senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories, tweeting the nuggets of wisdom over a 6 week period. Last week, artist and User Experience Director at Visceral Games (a subsidiary of Electronic Arts), Dino Ignacio, created a series of image macros of the 22 rules and posted them to Imgur and Reddit.
Why Uber, Like Any Business, Should Not Act First and Ask for Forgiveness Later
This article is by David Hagenbuch, an associate professor of marketing at Messiah College, in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and the founder of MindfulMarketing.org. While Uber, the app-driven car service company, has been disrupting traditional taxi service in the U.S. and beyond, changing the way people think about transportation, its innovative business model has become a role model for entrepreneurs in many industries, leading some to talk of the “uberification” of the economy.
Stop Wasting Everyone's Time
At the end of the day, many people wonder where all their time went. New data-mining tools are helping employers answer that question. The causes of overload have long been suspected-email and meetings-but new techniques that analyze employees' email headers and online calendars are helping employers pinpoint exactly which work groups impose the most on employees' time.
How Costco is Crushing the Competition
For the past few years I have maintained a U.S. same-store comparable sales spreadsheet for Costco, Walmart, and Target. While Walmart and Target have reported flat to negative comps in recent quarters not even beating inflation, Costco has been a machine growing sales comps 5 to 7% year-over-year every month. “We sell quality stuff at the best possible price.
It could succeed where Google Wallet failed.
Apple Pay, the new mobile payment system that Apple unveiled this week, looks pretty secure. It looks a lot more secure than the iCloud. As my colleague Lily Hay Newman explained, the combination of biometric authentication (by the Touch ID fingerprint system), near-field communication, and GPS location data makes for a payment process that is vastly more secure than the current credit card system.
Jeffrey Katzenberg: ‘Do good - just don’t do too good’
Fortune.com is a part of the Time.com network of sites.
Show More
loading
Actions
Get in touch with Frederick E.
Contact Frederick E., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack