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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. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- New SEC Guidelines Should Help Companies Communicate Online
- The SEC has issued new guidance on how publicly traded companies can use the Internet to communicate online. SEC Chairman Chris Cox said: "The last time the SEC issued guidance in this area, the idea of 'social networks' hadn't yet been developed, and creating a social network where...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- A Real Death: Is Corporate Evil to Blame?
- Can a Business Be Evil? asks Lew McCreary in an excellent, five-paragraph post on Harvard Business Publishing. If not, then who is responsible for the death of Carlene Balderrama, a 53-year-old wife and mother who killed herself hours before her house was to be sold in a foreclosure auction? ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Merrill: Losing the Expectations Game
- Dennis Berman looks today at Merrill Lynch's earnings per share. With earnings down and the number of shares up, he concludes, reasonably enough, that, in the words of Sanford Bernstein's Brad Hintz, "it's extremely difficult to get to the earnings-per-share number of 2004 anytime soon". Er, yes....
- Articles 2008-08-05
- Yahoo: All Over But the Shouting?
- A few days ago, I penned a posting asking that, at the end of the day, do proxy fights matter? I pointed to a new Wharton School of Business report that dumps cold water on the enthusiasm of shareholder activists who have had a field day this...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- How is GM Still Alive?
- In the world of eye-popping earnings, GM has managed to beat even Exxon Mobil. Exxon made a profit of $11.7 billion in the second quarter; GM has manged to come out with a $15.5 billion loss, or $27.33 a share. How this company is...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- "Good To Great" a Big Mistake?
- So, are the best business books of all-time worth reading? Steven "Freakonomics" Levitt says maybe not. In his latest column in the NYT, From Good to Great to Below Average, he talks about finally getting around to reading Jim Collins' "Good to Great." ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Are Proxy Battles Worth It?
- At the end of the day, does it matter? That sounds like the kind of existential question my teen-aged daughters might ask, but a new Wharton School of Business report dumps cold water on the enthusiasm of shareholder activists who have had a field day this past...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Slashing Employee Perks? You'd Better Have Good Reasons
- The Find: Cutting perks like may seem like an easy way to cut costs in a tough business environment, but experts warn that doing so can create an unexpectedly ferocious backlash from employees. The Source: An article in Knowledge@Wharton. The Takeaway: Knowledge@Wharton kicks off...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- "Say on Pay" Loses Support at Big Financial Houses
- While gaining among corporations in general, "Say on Pay" support is losing favor among financial companies, according to a new report by The Corporate Library. The shareholder watchdog group notes that "Say on Pay" lost support among eight major financial firms during this proxy season. The list...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Oil and Corporate Responsibility
- Oil companies like to boast that their record-breaking profits are largely invested in infrastructure, exploration for new sources of "Texas tea," and in exploring "green alternatives." But, according to an AP story, the bulk of oil companies' earnings have gone not into exploration, but to stock buybacks...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Another Bump for Sarbanes-Oxley
- After six years of survival, could a constitutional technicality derail the far-reaching Sarbanes-Oxley Act? At issue is a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. that challenges the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The PCAOB was set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- What To Do When a Crisis Hits
- Crisis communications experts like to say that every organization is going to have a crisis sooner or later, and that in fact, the underlying reasons for your crisis are probably already festering in your organization. Larry Smith, president of the Institute for Crisis Management, likes to point...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Paul Atkins: SEC Needs Lighter Touch
- Do you think the nation's top securities regulator goes overboard in enforcement? One of its outgoing commissioners thinks it does. U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission member Paul Atkins recently co-wrote an article claiming that enforcement issues are so egregious that the SEC needs to set up an...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Peeling Away the Economic Onion
- The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Conflicts of Interest in Advisory Firms
- BNET columnist Jessica Stillman penned an intriguing post last week calling a new Stanford study noting the dubious claims of shareholder advisory services that they can predict future performance of companies. The report, issued by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, run jointly by Stanford law and graduate business schools,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: SOX Comes of Age
- In the first two installments of this three-part series, I talked about the birth of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and about how it spread fear and loathing among business leaders in the U.S. Flash forward to today. Having taken effect nearly six years ago, SOX has settled in. Was it...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: Fear and Loathing
- By 2005, it was clear that Sarbanes-Oxley wasn’t exactly popular. SOX was being blamed for everything from putting companies out of business to forcing foreign firms to seek capital in non-U.S. markets. The most serious and believable criticisms surrounded SOX’s notorious Section 404 which called for internal...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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