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- Private Equity in Trouble: How Sweet It Is
- Whenever a group that portrays itself as Masters of the Universe gets into trouble, it is time to rejoice. How delicious that Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners are about to lose out on their deal to take Clear Channel Communications private. It's a $19.5 billion...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- The Battle for The New York Times
- This is a fascinating battle where two fundamental impulses--the right of shareholders to earn the best possible returns and the role of an independent media in the American democracy--come into conflict. Disclosure: I've been writing for the Times for seven years, but think I can step back...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Mad in Seattle: Microsoft's Proxy Fight Is All Wrong
- I know this marks me as oh-so-last century, but one American military officer fighting in Vietnam was quoted as saying, "We had to destroy the village to save it." In other words, to prevent the village from falling into the hands of the Commies, it had to be torched. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- What the Technology Future Holds: The View From McKinsey
- Three partners from McKinsey based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley have written a very provocative article on future technology trends. It's well worth a look. They examine eight trends, but the one that rings home with me is called "distributing cocreation." Basically, they are predicting that...
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Goodbye, Eddie Lampert. We Hardly Knew Ye.
- Well, it looks official. As I have warned previously in these pages, Eddie Lampert's wild experiment at Sears is coming to an end. Even the Wall Street Journal (on Wednesday Jan. 23) and now the New York Times (see this link, from Friday) agree that he does not know what...
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Did Meg Whitman Fail?
- This is a tough question to ask because Meg Whitman has been a legendary Silicon Valley CEO for 10 years and one of America's leading women CEOs, but ask it we must: does her expected departure from eBay at the age of 51 signal a management failure on her part?...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- McKinsey: Get Ready For More Foreign M&As
- The latest McKinsey Quarterly is out with a story that asks, are mergers and acquisitions over? The obvious answer is no, of course. But McKinsey's article makes a very important observation: the wave of private equity and hedge fund deals in the United States may be flaming out, but there is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Why Indian CEOs Are in Great Demand
- News that Vikram Pandit will be the new chief executive officer of Citigroup, joining other Indians such as Pepsi's Indra Nooyi at the top of major U.S. corporations, comes at the same time that we learn that Tata Motors may buy Jaguar from Ford Motor. The Indians...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- 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...
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- The Coke Board Gets It: A Lesson in CEO Succession
- Bravo to the board of Coca-Cola and Chairman and CEO Neville Isdell: This is how to handle CEO succession. Isdell, who is 64, announced he would step down as CEO and turn over the reins to Muhtar Kent, 55, who had been serving as president and chief...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Do Sears' Troubles Hint At Coming Wave of Bankruptcies?
- Now comes word that the once lionized Edward S. Lampert is having troubles with the combined Sears-Kmart giant he assembled only two years ago. What a far cry from the days when he was being hailed for his management genius. In brief, Lampert's problem is that falling...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
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