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- The Fruits of Frugality
- Despite our recent history, Americans haven't always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country's mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- The Price Medtronic Paid
- Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins says that his decision in 2007 to recall the company's Sprint Fidelis lead was the hardest he has ever made in his career. But it was even harder on the company. The day that Bill Hawkins announced that Medtronic...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- Reality Check: Wall Street's View of Medtronic
- Once a runaway leader in innovation, the world's largest medical device company has lately suffered from public mistakes and a drought of new products. On Medtronic’s competitive position: In two of Medtronic’s largest categories ― cardiac rhythm disease management and spine...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- How Korn Ferry Got Married
- When most other CEOs in the executive search fields were cutting back, Korn/Ferry?s Gary Burnison went shopping. The key: trusting his gut as much as the financials.Headhunting is a cyclical industry, which is another way of saying that Korn/Ferry has had a very rough 18 months: Its clients were doing...
- Articles 2009-10-20
- Reality Check: How Wall Street Sees Korn/Ferry
- Research analyst Mark Marcon evaluates Korn/Ferry under Gary Burnison?s leadership. Is the Whitehead Mann Acquisition Likely to Succeed? I think [CEO Gary] Burnison’s sense is even if the worst isn’t completely over, the worst of the worst has probably passed and the longer-term...
- Articles 2009-10-20
- The Price Medtronic Paid
- Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins says that his decision in 2007 to recall the company?s Sprint Fidelis lead was the hardest he has ever made in his career. But it was even harder on the company. The day that Bill Hawkins announced that Medtronic...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- Reality Check: Wall Street?s View of Medtronic
- Once a runaway leader in innovation, the world?s largest medical device company has lately suffered from public mistakes and a drought of new products. On Medtronic’s competitive position: In two of Medtronic’s largest categories ― cardiac rhythm disease management and spine...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- Bill Hawkins: How I Made the Toughest Call of My Career
- In an exclusive interview with BNET, Medtronic?s Bill Hawkins explains how and why he ordered the recall that shocked his industry. ...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- Why MPG Isn't the Best Metric
- Forget miles per gallon. What you really need to know is how much money it's going to cost you to get from point A to point B. ...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- Can the Chevy Volt Recharge GM?
- GM hopes the Chevy Volt will make the world once again see GM as an innovative company. Can one car really pull it off? Is the Chevy Volt any good? It looks very good. A large...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- P&G Clairol Strategy a Perfect 10
- Compared to P&G's acquisition of Gillette for $57 billion in 2005, Clairol looks like a boutique buy. But it was a very big deal at the time: If it had failed, the board would have put Lafley on a much shorter leash, and the recent history of...
- Articles 2009-11-24
- Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay
- The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation?s banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn?t really the right issue to focus on. Feinberg’s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would...
- Articles 2009-10-06
- Bill Hawkins: How I Made the Toughest Call of My Career
- In an exclusive interview with BNET, Medtronic's Bill Hawkins explains how and why he ordered the recall that shocked his industry. ...
- Articles 2009-10-05
- Why Oil Prices Are So Volatile
- Oil prices have been all over the map this past year: as high as $145 and as low as $30. Here's what's causing the big swings — plus some experts' bets on where prices are headed now. Crude Oil Prices 2000-Present ...
- Articles 2009-09-01
- ‘Cash For Clunkers': Did It Work?
- Sure, the program boosted sales and put more-efficient cars on the road. But a look behind the numbers reveals some surprising side effects. ...
- Articles 2009-08-24
- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- Is Saving More a Good Thing?
- Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that's good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it's only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically spending habits have changed in...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- The Rise of Protectionism
- The voices of ignorance ("Buy American") and prejudice ("Limit visas") have grown predictably louder during the current crisis. Fortunately, reason and the forces of globalization have managed to prevail. So far. Buy American Take the Buy American provisions. In the original House...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- A Case Study: Why 'Buy American' Will Make You Poorer
- Trade barriers didn't exactly cause the Great Depression, but they probably helped prolong it. Here's a lesson from history on why you want free trade, even if you think you don't. ...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Jagdish Bhagwati: The Perils of Protectionism
- The respected global economist on America's growing and alarming me-first attitude, and how well the Obama administration is acquitting itself on global trade issues. Do you see a resurgence of economic nationalism in the U.S., or elsewhere? Protectionist...
- Articles 2009-04-15
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