In last week's column, I wrote about the importance of having a deep understanding of history, politics and culture to appreciate the internal events in countries we do business with around the world. the tealeaves of a given event in a faraway country is never easy, and this week has been an especially interesting one ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 17:25

If you're underwater on your mortgage ??? i.e., you owe more than your home is worth ??? you may be wondering how long it will be before you'll resurface. While most experts agree we've reached (or are at least near) the bottom in terms of home prices, nobody is predicting a broad-based price recovery anytime ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

United Technologies, the industrial conglomerate based in , CT, is putting Clipper Windpower on the chopping block. Less than two years after picking up Clipper for $112 million in late 2010, UTC claims the Carpinteria, -based wind turbine manufacturer does not fit within UTC?s future focus on the aerospace and building industries, according to comments ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

The Obama Administration often proclaims that it works overtime to strengthen the competitive position of U.S. industry. If it's sincere about this claim, it should be working to lower the time and cost that it takes pharmaceutical companies to bring new medicines to market, estimated to be over a decade at a cost of $1.3 billion per drug.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:24

This is Whitney Tilson?s comment about Greg Smith?s scathing op-ed about why he?s leaving Goldman Sachs. Tilson is an investor whose firm T2 Partners is long GS and has used Goldman as a prime broker for 7 years. Tilson is also a columnist for Forbes. This is reprinted from an e-mail widely circulated this afternoon. ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 21:53

Timing in life is everything -- and even more so when you've been charged with and pleaded guilty to a felony that didn't quite make it onto your Form U4 in a timely manner. Worse, this case involved the untimely payment of child support.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 15:01

The historic SEC non-prosecution agreement with Carter's didn't necessarily mean that no one was going to get prosecuted. Just ask two of Carter's former senior executives who have been indicted.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 15:15

Modern-day online Trojan War ends with prison for most of the cyber attackers. A chilling tale.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 17:26

You know the feeling. You?re crafting that perfect Powerpoint and you?re stuck for inspiration. You need a classy pie chart, or a 3D graphic of a??software-stack or one of those social network symbols with a circle and branches coming out of it. We?ve all been there, our hands tied, irritated by the available clip art ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 12:53

I have no doubt that actual ?entitled? gamers do exist in the wild. In just about any business there?s always going to be that customer. You know the one. Anyone who?s waited tables knows what I?m talking about: the customer who you simply can?t please, who takes up 90% of your time while all the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:24