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Meet the new corporate leader

Home Depot CEO Frank Blake took a steep pay cut and is exploring nonmonetary ways to motivate workers - both traits of a Lifeguard leader. J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon exclaimed at a Harvard Business School summit in...

Toward a New International Capitalism

"This is a decisive moment for the global economy," President Bush declared yesterday in New York as leaders from the 20 largest economies headed toward Washington for an emergency meeting on the unfolding global economic crisis.

AIG to Pay Millions To Top Workers

American International Group plans to pay out $503 million in deferred compensation to some of its top employees, saying it must tap the funds to keep valuable workers from exiting the troubled insurance giant.

Hedge Fund Regulation Revisited

The Chief Executive of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority recently hedged his response to the increasing pressure for more regulation of the hedge fund industry. Although hedge funds caught a brief reprieve...

Employees Sue The Hartford Over Retirement-Plan Stock Losses

With all its troubles, The Hartford is now facing a barrage of litigation from its own employees, who have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in their retirement savings plan by investing in the company's stock.

The bottom line is regulation

Kelle Louaillier • published November 14, 2008 12:15 am It is no secret that today’s politics are driven, by and large, by crisis. In the midst of today’s financial crisis (which, bailout or no, is affecting us all) it is...

Give them credit for courage to keep building, give support

Nov 14, 2008

Some developers are planning to build right through the economic downturn. It well might take two or three years for the economy to bounce back and for the tourists to return in satisfying numbers. Meanwhile, the city and local...

Everything changes, but don't go it alone

This is going to be a three-part reminder of some fundamentals. People who have managed to roll with every other punch are experiencing their first panic attack. There have even been reports of people taking their laptops to...

The hypocrisy of Bush

Anyone who can understand George Bush's latest outburst, where he defends free markets and warns not to have too much Government interference in the economy. You can read his full speech here."History has shown that the greater...

Iraq Detention Imams Work for $2 Billion Private Equity Fund

When Iraqi imams sit down with prisoners at a US detention center in Iraq to discuss Islam, they are working for a subsidiary of Global Innovation (GI) Partners LLP, a California- and London-based private equity firm that...