If you could look inside the inner sanctum at Ford, what would you expect to see? Anxiety? Panic? Despair?

The economy, after all, is getting worse not better. Monthly car sales in the U.S. have continued to drop precipitously. Ford has lost market share during the past year and reported...

Do you find yourself asking this question: How is it that so many ostensibly smart people in the financial world made such terrible choices for so long?

Thirty years ago, an ecologist and professor named Garrett Hardin wrote a classic article in the journal titled "The Tragedy of the...

Twenty five years ago, the New York Times Magazine ran an extraordinary article titled "How Do Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves?" by Roger Rosenblatt. At the end, he quoted an executive named Victor Crawford who worked for five years as a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute and helped defeat a...

"It's getting really bad out here," the CEO of a large food company told me last week over lunch. "The head of one of our divisions committed suicide last week. A day later we had a senior executive die of a heart attack. I see marriages breaking up, people screaming...