Vic Brown had a thirty-year career in the chemical industry with FMC Corporation, where he held senior positions and worked internationally in sales, marketing, manufacturing, information technology and procurement.
Vic Brown had a thirty-year career in the chemical industry with FMC Corporation, where he held senior positions and worked internationally in sales, marketing, manufacturing, information technology and procurement.
In 2002 he embarked on a second career in academia, on the faculty and staff of Ursinus College, teaching in the Department of Business and Economics until his retirement in 2015.
Brown has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, consults on a regular basis for industry, and is a freelance writer.
Over the course of a career, I have participated in meetings in many conference rooms, most of them quite modest but some of them finely appointed.
But nothing comes close to the ...
When the Obama administration announced new Department of Labor rules that would greatly expand the population of employees who qualify for overtime pay, I am sure that many poorly paid ...
Some time ago, I posted a commentary on La Salle University’s new president Colleen Hanycz announcing significant budget cuts in response to declining enrollments and growing deficits. What really surprised me was ...
The Wall Street Journal reports recently on a growing trend among community colleges to develop a presence in other countries, as a way to attract more revenue and profit in an ...
I live but a few miles from the Villanova University campus, and was as happy as anybody to see their thrilling win in the NCAA basketball championship game on Monday night. Good ...
The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a new study which discovered that college students are often misinformed about the career earnings potential of different majors. Once they became aware of ...
Good business executives know the ways to reduce costs in order to be more competitive. Although it takes hard work, it’s not a mystery. Convert fixed costs to variable costs as much as possible. ...
At the outset, maybe I should explain how I came to visit the web site “Nerdwallet“, but I honestly have no idea. My daily reading regimen, in these days of ...
The most recent skirmish in the “vo-tech” vs. “humanities” war seems to be occurring in Kentucky. As reported by The New York Times, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin suggested that state funding not ...
The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce published a study recently that highlighted the fact that a disproportionately large percentage of African American students major in subject areas that ...
