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- How to Manage the Media
- For too long, American CEOs have operated with a policy of benign neglect toward the media. But recent CEO downfalls and PR disasters prove that strategy no longer works. To survive in the current media environment, here's how smart chief execs are making PR part of corporate strategy. ...
- Articles 2008-03-28
- Does GM Matter?
- Does it matter to America if GM ceases to exist? William Holstein is arguing that it does, in a book about to be published called "Why GM Matters." Holstein, a veteran journalist and former BNET blogger, has done a video preview of the book. Despite its terrible quality (it's...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Does GM Matter -- And If So, Why?
- Does it matter to America if GM ceases to exist? William Holstein is arguing that it does, in a book about to be published called “Why GM Matters.†Holstein, a veteran journalist and former BNET blogger, has a preview of the book in this video embedded below. Despite its terrible...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
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- SulphCo, Inc. F2Q09 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator (Operator's instruction) Your next question comes from the line of William Holstein - B&H Group LLC. William Holstein - B&H Group LLC It sounds like you are making some progress here. The one thing I took away from this conference call is that you have really...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-02
- Where the Chatter is on BNET
- Former CEO Magazine editor, William Holstein, has shaken things up with his post on H1-B visas, with people coming down vehemently on all sides of the issue. What do you think? Are H1-B visas good for America? Do they help keep jobs from going overseas? Or do they solely serve...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Whitman Skyped
- With the impending resignation of Silicon Valley superstar, Meg Whitman, from eBay, will "skyped" enter the hipster jargonary alongside other pejorative verbs like, "faced," "hosed," "put on notice" and "served?" Prior to her Big Mistake, the company had already been undergoing a morale problem and subsequent brain...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Can 'Creative Capitalism' Solve Big World Problems?
- Bill Gates says many of the world's biggest problems -- energy, poverty, disease -- are too big to be fixed by philanthropy and government aid alone. The solution he offered to an World Economic Forum audience at Davos this year was "creative capitalism." "Such a system,"...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- 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
- Memo to Michael Dell: CEO Sharing Doesn't Work
- Dear Michael, Remember when I came down there to Round Rock and interviewed you and Kevin Rollins almost five years ago? It was for Chief Executive magazine. Basically, I believed you and Kevin when you told me that it was possible for two people to share the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- The Economy: A Grinding Five-Year Restructuring
- The Economy: A Grinding Five-Year RestructuringOn the Money!I share your point of view. My opinion is that the seeds of what you say were planted during the Nixon era, when we no longer tied our currency to a standard commodity, like gold or silver. We wouldn't have had the rate...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- M-B Companies celebrates 100 years
- M-B Companies, New Holstein, WI, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year with two open house events. On June 16 at the Chilton, WI, plant, Chilton Mayor William Engler and Mark Larson, M-B vice president, general manager of airport products, participated in a cake-cutting ceremony. Then on July 7 in New...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Wal-Mart Is Right To Pursue Seiyu, But....
- Wal-Mart Chief Executive Lee Scott and his management team have made a courageous decision--to spend $860 million to acquire the remaining shares of Seiyu Ltd., the Japanese retailer, that the American company doesn't already own. Wal-Mart has previously spent more than $1 billion to acquire a 51 percent stake in...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Sprint Gets Rid of Four Directors
- I've been beating up on the Sprint Nextel board of directors for months and it appears that someone in Kansas agrees with me: four out of 13 directors are stepping down. See this account. Two directors, Linda Koch Lorimer and Keith Bane, told the Securities and Exchange...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Merrill Lynch's Stanley O'Neal Has Some Answering To Do
- One of the core truths about chief executive officers is that they are responsible--in tandem with their boards--for major strategic risks that their companies take. By that definition, Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal and his board have some answering to do. The firm announced a $5 billion...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- 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 rightâ€"naming two of the right kind of Democrats to the Securities & Exchange Commission and thereby driving a stake into the heart of shareholder...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Is the Countrywide Board Voting With Its Feet?
- Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros resigned from the board of the embattled Countrywide Financial Corp. this week, the third director to leave the board this year. Cisneros said he was leaving to spend more time as chairman of a firm that provides financing to U.S....
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- What the Merrill Debacle Teaches Us About CEO Succession
- The fact that the Merrill Lynch board accepted the so-called retirement of Chief Executive Officer Stanley O'Neal and then designated a board member, Alberto Cribiore, to lead a search committee to replace O'Neal reflects a complete failure of CEO succession planning. I'll tell you what they did...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Lucent-Alcatel: Why Cross-Cultural Mergers Are So Tough
- If you're ever tempted to undertake a cross-cultural merger or acquisition, think real hard about it. Very hard. Lucent's merger with France's Alcatel is a case in point. Although much ballyhooed when Lucent CEO Pat Russo and Alcatel CEO Serge Tchuruk reached the deal 18 months ago,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Chrysler, Private Equity and The Future Auto Industry
- Many people seem surprised by the depth of job cutbacks at Chrysler--11,000 more hourly and salaried jobs in the United States and Canada, and reduced shifts at five other plants. That comes on top of 13,000 job cuts earlier this year. But this is the new reality...
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
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