Author: Carson Scott

2013 WPI Fellow

Anchor & Chief Business Correspondent, Sky News Business
Sydney, Australia


Posts by Carson Scott:

Eschewing Subway and Lovin’ It

Eschewing Subway and Lovin’ It

In the immortal words of Mae West: “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” So it was — offered the choice en route from Tracy to the Twin Cities of Subway or McDonalds — I went for the latter (together with four kindred Fellows) …...
One country, 53 cultures

One country, 53 cultures

The music vamping in the leadup to the Naturalization Ceremony at St Paul MN’s Landmark Center had strains of London’s choice of podium music (Vangelis’s Chariots of Fire) for the 2012 Olympics … uplifting, inspiring, paying homage to success. An apt...
“Transparency” with Strings Attached

“Transparency” with Strings Attached

If Cargill was a publicly held company, its revenues would rank it 10th on the Fortune 500 list, between Valero Energy and Ford Motor Co (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/cargill-results-idUSL1N0G80MF20130807). So came as a surprise that the company —...