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Poll: Staying "Outside the Box" when Parrots Advance

Today's poll asks how you would handle a mixed signal from your boss. Your Dilemma: Your boss constantly claims he wants "outside the box" thinkers. Yet each time the staff meets to present ideas to him, he always chooses from those pitches that fit inside his own...

Tags: William Baker

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" Defense

Today's poll deals with whether the concept of "honest services" can cover dishonorable acts. Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who is serving a 24-year prison sentence after he was convicted on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors,...

Tags: William Baker, honest service, Enron Corp., Jeffrey K. Skilling, conviction

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Ad Exec's Suicide is Blamed on Industry Blogs

On Feb. 22, Paul Tilley, an ad agency exec at DDB Chicago, committed suicide. Now many are pointing the finger of blame at some advertising blogs that allowed anonymous posters to personally attack Tilley, the man who oversaw the teams that created the "Dell Dude" and the "I'm Lovin It"...

Tags: William Baker, Paul Tilley, attack, advertisement, industry

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Update: A Trump-Style Pitch

Our poll on A Trump-Style Pitch asked you to decide what you'd do if you were an ad agency exec hired to promote a celebrity-endorsed product, only to find out that what your client was really selling was the old bait-and-switch scheme. So far, about 50 percent...

Tags: William Baker, Trump-Style Pitch, comments section

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Additional Resources

Teacher Retention in a Teacher Resiliency-Building Rural School

This article focuses on the challenge of teacher retention in rural schools in relation to the No Child Left Behind mandate, that school districts must attract and retain highly qualified teachers. This case study examines the extent to which a rural school enhanced teacher retention by overcoming the barriers that...

Articles 2007-01-01

NRDC and Apollo pay $1.2b to buy Lord & Taylor chain

Purchase, NY-based NRDC Equity Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire the 48-store Lord & Taylor retail chain from Federated Department Stores for $1.2 billion in cash. NRDC Equity Partners, LLC is a joint venture between Robert C. Baker and Richard A. Baker, principals of National Realty...

Articles 2006-06-28

Rapid Knowledge Transfer: The Key To Success

Rapid knowledge transfer (RKT) involves the discovery, learning, creation and reuse of knowledge that eventually becomes intellectual capital-knowledge that can be converted into value and profits. It benefits organizations by preventing defects and waste and by providing better products and services to customers faster. RKT, however, is not synonymous with...

Articles 2006-02-01

Right says Bush is wrong on Miers

WASHINGTON -- President Bush rejected conservative calls Friday to withdraw his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and prepared to reassure skeptical Republicans and persuade the Senate to confirm her for the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Bush advisers who...

Articles 2005-10-08

Butterbean seed yield, color, and protein content are affected by photomorphogenesis

YIELD AND NUTRIENT CONTENT are important characteristics of food crops, and they are influenced by a combination of genetics and the total environment in which the plants are grown. Both photosynthetically active and photomorphogenically active light are critical components of the growth environment. Plant canopy interception and use of photosynthetically...

Articles 2004-11-01

Carlsbad, Calif., golf company to miss quarter, annual targets.

By Jennifer Davies, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 15--Callaway Golf Co., which has struggled in recent months amid lackluster demand for its equipment, warned yesterday that its results for the third quarter and the year could be...

Articles 2004-09-15

Napoleon's Glance: the Secret of strategy

NAPOLEON'S GLANCE: The Secret of Strategy, William Duggan, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2003, 280 pages, $24.95. Were you ever engaged in solving a perplexing problem when the solution suddenly became as obvious as daylight? If so, you have experienced what led Napoleon to success--sudden insight--intuition, based on...

Articles 2004-09-01

"Wildcatting" for Fraud: A New Investigative Approach by SEC Enforcement?

By William R Baker III (Washington D.C. office), David M. Brodsky, Alexandra A.E. Shapiro and Noreen A. Kelly-Najah (New York office) Despite a formidable history and a number of recent successes, the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to receive criticism from Congress, the public and the press...

Articles 2004-05-04

An incoherent strategy over rebuilding Iraq

Here's the kind of muddled White House policy that's driving our Iraq venture toward disaster. On Tuesday, the Pentagon barred France, Germany, Canada and Russia from bidding on $18 billion in Iraqi reconstruction contracts because they didn't take part in the war effort. On Wednesday, President Bush asked...

Articles 2003-12-14

ExxonMobil Attorney Tapped to Lead Baker & Daniels' China Practice

Business Editors INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2003 Edward L. Williams, former ExxonMobil Corporation attorney, has been named resident managing partner of the China practice for Indiana-based Baker & Daniels. Williams, who has significant experience in China and the Asia Pacific region, will lead Baker & Daniels' China...

Articles 2003-09-30

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Says Changes Needed in Cleanup Effort.

By Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 22--WASHINGTON--The head of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said yesterday that the management system for cleaning up the bay has failed and needs to be replaced with a new agency given...

Articles 2003-08-22

Rogers Corporation Holds Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Business Editors ROGERS, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2003 (NYSE:ROG) Rogers Corporation held its annual meeting of stockholders today in Hartford, CT. Stockholders voted to re-elect each of the nominees for Director of the Corporation. They are Leonard M. Baker, Harry H. Birkenruth, Walter E. Boomer,...

Articles 2003-04-24

PERSONALS

News Corp. named Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and chmn. of News Ltd., to be senior exec. vp of News Corp. in Office of Chmn. He will report to Pres. Peter Chernin... Jeffrey Leist, ex-News Corp., named senior vp-COO, CyberShop... Kenneth Langone, Invemed Assoc., named to board of...

Articles 1999-02-15

Clinton expands federal effort to combat invasive species

President Bill Clinton signed an executive order recently to coordinate a federal strategy to address the growing environmental and economic threat of invasive species, plants and animals that are not native to ecosystems of the United States. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, and Commerce Undersecretary James Baker...

Articles 1999-02-01

Roslyn needs an acquisition to jump-start stalled stock. (Roslyn Savings Bank)

After failed attempt to grow NY office, law firm hopes to learn from mistakes The international law firm of Baker & McKenzie has big plans to expand in New York. The Chicago-based firm wants to snap up lateral corporate partners, bulk up the...

Articles 1998-01-26

The unfabulous Baker boy - James A. Baker and pre-Summit negotiations with the Soviet Union

JAMES BAKER went to Moscow for pre-summit negotiations with two broad Administration goals to guide him: getting Soviet troops out of Central Europe, especially Germany; and blunting the threat of the SS-18, the Soviets' land-based intercontinental missile. What he got was: no progress at all toward a conventional-forces treaty ("our...

Articles 1990-06-11