Michael J Donnelly

Donnelly’s Law explains why institutions generate endless reports, dashboards, and analytics while becoming slower and less decisive. The professional managerial class has powerful incentives to treat more data as inherently valuable.

Luxury brands do not just sell handbags and watches. They sell the feeling of arrival. A systems-level analysis of how companies like LVMH, Kering, and Richemont turn status anxiety into one of the most profitable business models in modern capitalism.

Why has construction productivity improved so little despite increased use of managerial tools, using empirical data? Donnelly’s Law shows how data overload, administrative complexity, and limited managerial attention quietly reduce efficiency across the construction industry.

Rising tuition, weak labor-market outcomes, academic celebrity culture, and increasingly speculative public theories combined to erode public trust in the humanities and accelerate their institutional decline.