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Countrywide, Bear Stearns: Failures in Governance: We've now seen two financial firms fail in the subprime mortgage mess--Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. What do they share in common? Spectacularly bad corporate governance. There's been a long-running debate among shareholder activists and corporate leaders whether "good governance" equals "good business," or merely consists of...; Tags: Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Mortgages, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Governance, Financial, Shareholder, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Eliot Spitzer's Character: I Told You So: Right now, a lot of people are piling on Eliot Spitzer for portraying himself as being so righteous in stamping out evil even while reportedly seeking out the services of high-priced call girls. People seem to be surprised. But I'm not. I was very lonely out there in the...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Eliot Spitzer, Candidate Eliot Spitzer, Quality, Sales Tools, Finance, Sales, Business Operations, Financial Accounting; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Needed: Major Financial Reform: It seems to me that a very important message in getting the lost in the shuffle of "Will the Fed lower rates or not?" and "How bad will the recession be?" The important message is that we need deep structural reform in our financial sector. In some...; Tags: Financial Accounting, Problem, Agency, Financial, Bank, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-02-28
The Economy: A Grinding Five-Year Restructuring: I made that pronouncement in my previous posting and now I'm being challenged to explain what I mean. I relish the opportunity. This is more than a one- or two-quarter recession. This is the end of a nearly 30-year cycle that started when Ronald Reagan took office...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Home Entertainment, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Quality, Games, Government, Stimulus, Financial Accounting, TVs, Vertical Industries; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Is ISS Too Powerful? And Whose Interests Does It Serve?: Most people have probably never heard of Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, but it is one of the most powerful players in the battle for control of the American corporation. It is the 800-pound gorilla in the room. The vast majority of directors, executives and other experts involved in running America's companies...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Management, Sales, Finance, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Sales Strategy, Financial Statements; Blog posts 2008-02-07

Countrywide's Mozilo Tries To Pull a Fast One on Compensation: Countrywide Financial Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo seems to have finally obtained some public relations advice--he's announcing that he'll voluntarily give up $37.5 million in severance and consulting pay in connection with Bank of America's takeover of his failed firm. He made this announcement the day before Countrywide reported $422 million...; Tags: Consulting, Compensation, Shareholder, Countrywide, Angelo Mozilo, Public Relations, Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-29
Banks: Clawing Back CEO Compensation: Okay, let's get real. We've had a series of colossal failures--Chuck Prince at Citicorp, Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch and Angelo Mozilo at Countrywide Financial. All three are losing their jobs or their companies, yet each is walking away with at least $50 million in golden parachutes. This...; Tags: Bank, Shareholder, Compensation, Board, Corporate Governance, Finance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-15
Eliot Spitzer's Legacy on Trial: As per an article in today's Wall Street Journal, the trial in the case of how American International Group AIG and Chairman and Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg allegedly manipulated earnings is finally starting. Facing criminal charges are five executives of AIG and Warren Buffett's General Re Corp., which allegedly...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Human Resources, Journal, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, Eliot Spitzer, Financial Statements, Benefits, Greenberg, Finance; Blog posts 2008-01-07
SEC Chairman Cox Makes Another Smooth Move: CEOs of small and medium-sized companies should stand up and cheer Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC. Cox wants to delay, for another year, the deadline for companies with market capitalizations of less than $75 million to comply with Section 404 of Sarbox, which was enacted...; Tags: SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley, Entrepreneurship, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Regulations, Government, Finance, Management, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Finally, Getting Real About Google: As a veteran business reporter who has seen my share of spectacular successes and failures, I've suspected that something was not quite what it seemed at Google. Whenever an executive proclaims that he or she has fundamentally transformed business and created a new "paradigm," it's time to be skeptical....; Tags: Management, Strategy, Telecommunications, Financial Accounting, Team Management, Google Inc., Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Why Christopher Cox Did the Right Thing: Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC, is taking some heat for a 3-1 decision last week that would prevent shareholders from placing their own candidates for a company's board of directors on that company's proxy ballot. But Cox did the right thing on the issue that is known as "shareholder...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-05
How to Get Yourself on the CEO Track: Despite all the scandals involving chief executive officers, there still seems to be a hunger for insights about how to become one. On the basis of my years of contacts with CEOs, I'd start with these guidelines: Give yourself a head start. You have to have the...; Tags: Career, Financial Accounting, Professional Development, CEO, Team Management, Team, Management, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Why Are Bankers Like Lemmings Over The Cliff?: Lo these many years, I've seen bankers and the overall financial business do so many stupid things. First in no particular order was the Third World debt crisis. Remember? These guys were tripping over themselves to lend to tin pot dictators who had no chance of ever repaying. ...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Capital Structures, Finance, Mortgages, Financial Accounting, Banker, Financial; Blog posts 2007-11-08
The Ownership of Glass Lewis Is All Wrong: Glass Lewis & Co. is one of the cops on the beat. Although not as powerful as Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, Glass Lewis' ratings of companies and their corporate governance practices really matter. And in contested proxy battles, many investors turn to Glass Lewis for its opinion. ...; Tags: Human Resources, Finance, William J. Holstein, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Benefits, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Teacher; Blog posts 2007-10-29
Earth to Bush: Fix the SEC: President Bush is in the waning days of an administration that has underachieved expectations, to put it charitably. But there's still one thing he could get right—naming two of the right kind of Democrats to the Securities & Exchange Commission and thereby driving a stake into the heart of shareholder...; Tags: Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Cox, SEC, Board, Democrat, Shareholder, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-10-25