Sheldon Dunn, MBA, PhD

The HVAC tech who shows up fifteen minutes early for a service call is often spending those minutes on the front steps, talking with the building engineer. They cover the chiller that acted up last month, who has been in and out of the mechanical room, what the weather has been doing, and how the owner has been riding him about the electric bill. On the dispatch sheet, those fifteen minutes are off the clock. To any experienced contractor, they are often where the real work gets set up. Most...

Apple turned 50 this year. That fact alone is worth pausing on. The average publicly traded company in the United States does not survive a decade. Apple has survived five of them, through multiple near-deaths, radical product pivots, and at least two complete reinventions of its business model. How? The standard answer is leadership, vision, and culture. Those explanations are not wrong, but they are incomplete. They describe the outcome without explaining the structural mechanism that made...

Conditions and sourcing as of March 31, 2026. Sources include Reuters, AAA, the Jerusalem Post, and JoongAng Ilbo. Japan and South Korea together represent a large share of Hawaiʻi’s international visitor spending. Both economies are absorbing an energy shock right now, driven by a conflict that closed the Strait of Hormuz and sent US gas prices above $4 a gallon nationally. If you run a hotel, a restaurant, or a tour operation in Hawaiʻi, that is not a distant geopolitical story. It is a...