Freedom, Capitalism and Religion
Progressive Essays and Thinking on Capitalism and Freedom and Religion
As a business executive, I helped take a startup software company from a small $3 million entity to a $200 million dollar public company through a series of two acquisitions. From 1995-2006, I held a number of key executive leadership roles including VP of Marketing, VP of Business Consulting and VP of Professional Services. During this time, I learned that my academic and teaching skills were quite handy in the business world, where I provided executive consulting to many large global companies such as HP, Nokia, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Verisign and others that were trying to improve the efficiency of managing global content. 
The experience of working in the for-profit world of software combined with my academic religious studies background gave me an abiding interest in the intersection of business and ethics, and the larger questions of capitalism, freedom and religion. Hence my current writing.
Since then I developed and taught several courses on business ethics, spirituality and business, and corporate social responsibility at Santa Clara University, in the Religious Studies department and in the Leavey School of Business.
So leaving academia wasn't "Howard's End." I'm back. Wiser and older for sure. And my experiences shaped and changed me and gave me what I think is a somewhat unique experience, having travelled from Seminary to Silicon Valley.
Please feel free to contact me and share your experiences and interests. You can do so by emailing me: hsaccount@yahoo.com