Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge begrudgingly grants his loyal clerk, Bob Cratchit, time off for Christmas ...

It is Christmas Eve and seven years since Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley died. It is cold, biting weather and Scrooge is in his 'counting-house' with his eye on his clerk ...