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Friday, November 4th, 2011Departing from my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let’s turn to a story that’s making headlines today. The Huffington Post reports that The Humane Society of the United States has filed an SEC complaint against Smithfield Farms, the company that supplies pork for McDonald’s McRib sandwich. HSUS alleges that Smithfield [...]
Should you have to be brutal to succeed in business?
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011TheStreet.com is running a new “Fast Track” series that features high-powered women in the financial industry. They invited me to write a piece on Abby Joseph Cohen, the Goldman Sachs economist and financial analyst who’s been known for decades, and sometimes criticized, for her unfailing bullishness. Ms. Cohen rose to national prominence when [...]
Occupy Wall Street protesters deserve more respect
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011The Occupy Wall Street protesters have been camped out in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park for a month now. The protests have spread to several American cities, including Washington, D.C., and are fast becoming a global phenomenon. Tens of thousands of people across the world are joining the protests, shouting their hearts and lungs [...]
Disclose conflicts of interest
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Resuming my Friday series on keeping your business out of court, let’s rip and read from recent headlines. The Wall Street Journal is a wonderful source of information about businesses that let greed drag them right into expensive litigation. Today’s example comes from the banking industry - no surprise, I admit - but [...]
A Loving Tribute to Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Oh, it’s a sad day. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers and re-inventor of Pixar Studios, has succumbed to a rare form of pancreatic cancer. The news is full of tributes and remembrances, and I’d like to add mine here.
There are many reasons to praise Steve Jobs. He was a visionary who [...]
Wall Street is occupied - but is it listening?
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011It’s been almost three weeks since protesters first appeared in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Their point? That our society is fast becoming a plutocracy, with too many Americans struggling just to get by while the vast majority of the nation’s wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in far too few hands. Well-to-do bankers, brokers [...]
When creating jobs, think green!
Thursday, August 25th, 2011One of the fun things I get to do from time to time is to write for The Street.com, a well-known financial website. This week, The Street is speculating about the jobs program that President Obama plans to unveil next month. The Street invited me to contribute an article and, lucky me, I [...]
Is it the end of the world, or did Congress just agree on something?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011These are exciting times we live in. By now you’ll have heard that Washington, D.C. and its environs were struck this afternoon by an earthquake that measured about 5.6 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter of the quake was actually closer to Richmond but, with characteristic D.C. narcissism, our news outlets are acting as [...]
Tell your customers what they need to know
Monday, August 15th, 2011Over the weekend, I had occasion to take my daughters to the “Build A Bear” store for a birthday celebration. The shop is in Tyson’s Corner Center, a Northern Virginia mall that’s grown to the point where it occupies two massive tracts of land about 1/4 mile apart. Not wanting to drag little [...]
Keep calm and carry on
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Watching internantional financial markets bounce like overinflated beach balls for the past couple of days, I’ve been reminded of a slogan once coined by the British government. History buffs know that, at the beginning of World War II, the Ministry of Information designed and distributed a series of posters designed to boost the public’s [...]
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