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- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Cuts in Business Travel on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- The Find: Fed up travelers avoided 41 million trips last year, costing the U.S. economy $26 billion, and things aren't much better across the pond. The Source: A recent survey from the Travel Industry Association TIA. The Takeaway: Polling firms...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Study: Boards Giving CEOs (Slightly) More Job Security
- The Find: An analysis of 2,500 public companies over the last ten years shows that the rate at which CEOs get fired for poor short term financial performance is just 2.1 percent. The Source: The seventh annual CEO succession report from Booz & Company which will be...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- In the UK, the CEO Path Runs Through Finance First
- The Find: If you want to get to the top of a large UK company, stay away from a new-fangled interest in soft skills and stick to mastering finance. The Source: An analysis of the career paths of the CEOs atop the FTSE 100...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Creative Investment Idea for Baseball Fans, Economists
- Imagine you've ponied up for an MBA, PhD, or a decade of world-class sports coaching. You're looking for a job, but you could use some cash now. In the future, you're likely to have substantial earnings but that's no help to you at the moment. Or is it? ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Should You Hire the More Beautiful Candidate? Ask an Economist
- Beauty and business are not necessarily topics you'd think of as going together, but most of us have heard of studies linking good looks and career advancement. It certainly doesn't seem fair, but is it true? In a strange choice of Christmas special, the Economist recently took a look...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Top 10 Misconceptions about Doing Business in China
- Think you know the basics of the business relationship between China and the U.S.? From safety recalls to the trade imbalance, issues surrounding the two countries' business dealings have been in the news a lot lately. Nonetheless, the Kiplinger Business Resource Center has an eye-opening article dispelling ten common misconceptions...
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Six Keys to Better Communication and Better Financial Performance
- Our recent post centered on a Harvard Business Review IdeaCast about what skills managers were missing got a lot of attention. Managers, it seems, want to know what's more important--soft communication skills or more hard-hosed traits like perseverance? Global Consulting firm Watson Wyatt weighed in yesterday with its 2007/2008 Communication...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- The Unintended Consequences of Stock Options
- Stock options are designed to encourage executives to focus on the needs of the shareholder. Giving the CEO a stake in the company's market performance sounds like an elegant and effective way to make sure his or her attention is in the right place. But a study from management professors...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Selling Fear: The Finances of Halloween
- It's Halloween today and the business press is enjoying the holiday as much as any kid in a costume. Even the staid folks at Fortune are getting in on the act. They're running a package of articles on the somewhat scary topic of making money from fear. Among the roller-coasters...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Wal-Mart to Buy Japanese Supermarket
- News is out today that Wal-Mart will spend $878 million to buy out the minority shareholders in Japanese supermarket Seiyu Ltd. The company already owns 51% of Seiyu and has always lost money -- by some accounts over $1 billion. So why would Wal-Mart throw more money at what appears...
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Shareholder v. Stakeholder: Whose Company Is It?
- Yesterday we asked whether your business has good karma. At the heart of the question is the shareholders v. stakeholders debate. Or to put it another way: for whose benefit does your company exist? The shareholders alone, or a more expansive group including employees and customers? Some...
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Is Good Karma Good for Business?
- Unisys recently released a new European study that reveals exactly what business practices erode customer trust. There aren't too many surprises, but the study did show that many activities you might think of as "trust-building" are in fact simply expected by customers. Businesses built scant loyalty through ethical business practices,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- 'Facebook With Wrinkles' - A Slew of Sites Attempt to Lure Boomers
- When Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace in June 2005, the News Corp. boss cited young people's restless desire to surf, select and control their information as a driving force in the transformation of the news business and a contributing factor in his decision to venture online. Young people, in...
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Bad News from Labor Dept: What Does It Mean?
- New employment numbers are out from the Labor Department today, and it's not good news. The economy lost 4,000 jobs in August -- that's the first loss in four years and significantly worse than economists expected. The unemployment rate is steady at 4.6%. The markets are a different matter, however,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Earnings Up at Gap Inc.
- Yesterday Gap Inc. reported that second quarter net income jumped 19% due to belt tightening measures including job cuts and a decrease in inventory. The company also plans to buy back $1.5 billion in shares. New CEO Glenn Murphy, who's been on the job for just four weeks, answered questions...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- A Primer to Understanding the Trouble on Wall Street
- It's mayhem on Wall Street. Yesterday the Dow Jones fell 3oo points before a late rally nearly erased the day's loses. Today the Fed announced a surprise cut of .5% in the discount rate on loans to banks. Stocks opened strong but then sank again to pare gains by half,...
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Dell Accounting Probe Resolved: Battle of the PC Makers Continues
- Yesterday Dell announced the results of its year long accounting probe and admitted that finance staff misstated earnings in order to meet quarterly performance targets. The company will now have to restate four years worth of earnings and has already taken steps to fire or reassign those involved in the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- How to Evaluate a Startup
- Often managers are responsible for grappling with complex problems in their enterprises -- new problems with many diverse elements interacting in a dynamic way (for an interesting model of these sorts of complex problems, check out this diagram). Recently many startup companies have sprouted up promising to help solve such...
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Investing in Africa: Not As Crazy As It Sounds?
- If American business thinks of Africa at all, it's usually as a tax write-off generating charity case. That's a mistake writes Thomas Kostigen on MarketWatch.com in response to a new report by investment consultant RogersCasey. Africa, according to Kostigen and RogersCasey, offers ethically responsible investment opportunities with attractive risk-adjusted returns....
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
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