The founding fathers

Paracelsus and Goethe: founding fathers of environmental health.

The writings of Paracelsus and Goethe were separated by nearly three centuries and were published long before public health was a recognized profession, yet they could hardly be more relevant to environmental health problems today. In his great dramatic poemFaust, 1832, Goethe (1) confronts the promises and pitfalls of the Industrial Revolution and the economic growth that it generated. As fina...

John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton The Founding Fathers of Agile

Introduction Nothing has ever been invented — not the light bulb, not the automobile, not the iPhone. Someone at some point got the notion to combine two or more existing ideas and call it the next new thing. So it was with the Agile Alliance, the Agile Manifesto and its nine principles. In February 2001, 17 “anarchists” met to create a common and more efficient method of software development. ...

From the Founding Editor

ASL is gearing up for change in looks, content as well as its name. About 27 years after it was launched, ASL is undergoing a complete transformation to meet fresh challenges of the new millennium. The journal will have a new look and feel, its advisory committee reconstituted, a more efficient peer review process and an online platform for submission and review of research papers. Very soon, a...

Founding Editor

Founding the Future: The evolution of teams from founding to IPO•

We develop an evolutionary theory of entrepreneurial top management teams highlighting that entrepreneurial teams follow a path-dependent process where the founding team shapes the quality and characteristics of subsequent executive teams. By attracting top managers who are both similar to the founders and experienced in their own right, experienced founding teams accrue long-term advantages. U...