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Should You Join the Family Business?: The decision to join a family business can be difficult because once you're in, you're in for the long haul. You can leave IBM with two-weeks notice. But mixing blood and money means you are committing big time to Johnson's Distributors or Jones and Sons Auto Repair. ...; Tags: Corporate Law, Business Operations, Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Family Governance, Family Business, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Enough on Yahoo Already: There was Microsoft. Then Carl Ichan. Then the vindication at a shareholders meeting. Isn't it time for Yahoo to get a break? Apparently, not. It now turns out that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock did not get the resounding affirmation rates of of 85.4...; Tags: shareholder, jerry yang, yahoo! inc., corporate governance, financial accounting, business operations, corporate law, finance, peter galuszka; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Booz & Co Study: Make Smart Investments in a Downturn: When tough times come, too many CEOs knee jerk themselves into cost-cutting mode. Big mistake, write two Booz & Co. consultants. What's needed instead is a smart, targeted investment strategy, say Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand in a recent Booz report. By making an intelligent study of...; Tags: Software, Peter Galuszka, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Finance, Corporate Governance, Investment, Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM); Blog posts 2008-08-01
Bankruptcy PR is the Newest Agency Market Niche: You know the boom times are over when it "bankruptcy PR" becomes the newest market niche for PR agencies. PRWeek reports that "retailer Mervyns is working with Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher for communications support during its Chapter 11 filing," which the company made on Tuesday. ...; Tags: Agency, PR Agency, Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy PR, Public Relations, Litigation, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Jon Greer; Blog posts 2008-07-31
Wallstrip: Solera Holdings Inc. (SLH): With Solera Holdings Inc. SLH on their side, you'll need more than a phony limp and neck brace to beat the auto insurance companies.; Tags: accident, auto, billy, Business Operations, car, cars, chris, claim, claims, company, Corporate Insurance, dead, derrick, drazen, friday, holdings, howard lindzon, incorporated, injury, insurance, Insurance Company, invest, investing, julie alexandria, nasdaq, nyse, petrovic, prez, rose, software, solera, Solera Holdings Inc., stock stock exchange, stocks, tucker, wallstrip; Videos 2008-07-30

Wharton: Hands Off Employee Perks: One of the books on my summer reading desk is a page-turner about the mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin back in 1905. After taking over by force, more than 700 sailors roamed the Black Sea spreading terror for nearly two weeks. What caused the mutiny? Cheap pursers aboard the...; Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Employee Perk, Perk, Wharton School, Corporate Law, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-29
Proxy Governance Goes after ISS in Proxy War of Proxy Services: The cold war among proxy service companies has been getting a lot hotter lately. Proxy Governance, a proxy service firm based in Vienna, Va., has gone on the offensive by pushing for a "code of ethics" among its group which includes Glass Lewis & Company and Egan...; Tags: Consulting Service, Code Of Ethics, SEC, Proxy Governance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Human Resources, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-28
Want Broader R&D? Use the Web, McKinsey Suggests: Online communities can serve as a corporation's R&D lab by offering a broader talent reach and closer contact with consumers' needs, according to a new McKinsey Quarterly study. Historically, innovation has started in in-house labs where researchers must proceed through a series of closely-managed steps, write McKinsey...; Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., R&D, Research & Development, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Attention Dobbs: The Redcoats Are Coming to CSX: All of you Lou Dobbs fans out there might be curious about what happened to one of the greatest travesties in American economic history -- a proxy fight by an English hedge fund over board seats on CSX, an American railroad. Apparently, The Children's Investment Fund, the...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, CSX, 3G, Corporate Governance, Cellular Phones, Financial Accounting, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-24
How to Start a Whisteblowing Program: Say "whistleblower" to some execs and the reaction your likely to get is one of fear and loathing. It shouldn't be that way. Whistleblowers can help keep your company out of trouble by catching fraud and corruption â€" things harmful to your company's reputation and bottom line over the long...; Tags: Michael Mattis, Finance, Business Operations, Free Trade, Litigation, ICC, Fraud; Blog posts 2008-07-23
U.S. Outsourcing Brains, Insourcing Management: Seems like it's Cosmopolitan Day here at BNET. Over at the Corner Office, Peter Galuszka notes that U.S. companies are, in increasing numbers, tapping executives and board members from abroad, notably China and India (Or, as the kids are calling it, Chindia.) Meanwhile, BNET1's...; Tags: Canada, Board, Workforce Management, Michael Mattis, Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Corporate Governance; Blog posts 2008-07-22
BNET's David Hamilton on Genentech-Roche: BNET Industries editor, David Hamilton, blogs up the skinny on Roche's attempted acquisition of biotech giant, Genentech. Writes Hamilton: The deal also has a funny smell to it. Roche CEO Severin Schwan claims the merger would save $800 million a year in administrative costs from merging commercial and manufacturing...; Tags: Business Operations, Michael Mattis, Internet, Finance, Investment, Corporate Law, Biotechnology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Podcasts, Genentech Inc., Roche Holding AG; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Is My Job 'Offshorable'? You Might be Surprised: In a much debated research paper last year, Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder concluded that up to 38 million jobs, or 29 percent, of US jobs are potentially offshorable within the next couple of decades -- that is, capable of being outsourced to workers in other countries. ...; Tags: Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sean Silverthorne, Business Operations, Workforce Management, It Operations, Human Resources, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Blinder, Recruitment & Selection, Worker, Job; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Wall Street Loves Obama: Wall Street is coming on strong for Barack Obama in this year's presidential campaign donation race. Big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan favor Obama over John McCain by margins of roughly four or five to one. So states a recent report by Chief...; Tags: Business Operations, CEO, Construction, George W. Bush, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., John McCain, Peter Galuszka, Research & Development, Wall, Wall Street; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Beach Reading for Business: Just in time for the home stretch of summer, Joe Nocera of the New York Times a paper I sometimes write for has posted his list of the the best business books ever Nocera has been a top business writer for decades now -- for instance, his story...; Tags: Quality, List, Entrepreneurship, Michael Fitzgerald, Business Operations, Management, Fiction, Beach; Blog posts 2008-07-18
The Death of the Informed Decision: To make a critical decision, we often siphon in as much raw data as possible, listen to expert advice, run scenarios, and then place our bet or bets on the most logical course of action. But if you notice, the captain of the Starship Enterprise was not...; Tags: Business Operations, Sean Silverthorne, Research & Development, Productivity, Computer, Brain; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Wallstrip: Digital Realty Trust Inc. (DLR): The housing market may be taking a hit, but the digital real estate market is taking off. Digital Realty Trust Inc. DLR, a landlord of data centers, can hardly keep up with demand.; Tags: wallstrip, stocks, stock stock exchange, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, digital realty trust inc, dlr, realty investment, trust fund, Business Operations, howard lindzon, julie alexandria, date centers, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Real Estate, Data Centers, Digital Realty Trust Inc., Housing Market, apple, the matrix, google, will ferrell; Videos 2008-07-11
Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? | HBR IdeaCast: Managers who manage their time well not only get more accomplished, but they also set the tone for employees to be more proactive about their own schedules. Melissa Raffoni, author of the Harvard Business Review article "Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?", shares techniques that will help you...; Tags: It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, BNET Staff, Online Communications, Marketing, E-mail, Outsourcing, Team Management, Product Marketing, Internet, Productivity, Podcasts; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Commercial Governance Ratings in Question: The Find: Governance advisory firms claim they can predict the future performance of a public company by analyzing public data, but new research claims the value of their ratings is dubious at best. ...; Tags: Correlation, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Jessica Stillman, Corporate Law, Performance, Corporate Governance; Blog posts 2008-07-08
The Budweiser Wars: Where's Lou Dobbs?: Maybe I've missed it, but I have been waiting for CNN pundit Lou Dobbs to weigh in on the foreign invasion of an American icon -- Budweiser beer. After finding its initial $65 a share bid for Anheuser-Busch Companies rebuffed, InBev SA, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer of such...; Tags: Takeover, Peter Galuszka, Internet, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Services, InBev, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Investment, A-B, Financial Accounting, Finance; Blog posts 2008-07-07