This afternoon Whole Foods Market released the following statement from Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, John Mackey:"I sincerely apologize to all Whole Foods Market stakeholders for my error in judgment in anonymously participating on online financial message...
This week CFO.com features the best YouTube Excel tutorial videos. Highlights:"Creating a Combination Chart in Excel 2007." Excel enables users to combine two or more chart types into a single chart. This type of chart — called a combination chart — can...
Apparently Vermont is becoming one of the most popular locations for "captive" insurance units. Over 560 US companies have established Vermont-based private, unrated insurance companies to serve their employees - nearly as many companies as have...
CFO.com reports that a diverse group of institutional investors, government treasurers and controllers, and corporations is calling for federal legislation and SEC clarification to help address global warming. Excerpt from story at CFO.com:"Global warming...
Heads up! The Freakonomics duo - Stephen J Dubner and Steven D. Levitt - will be exploring Identity Theft in their New York Times Magazine column this coming Sunday, March 11th. In the meantime, their blog has links to their research sources, including the...
In reaction to a recent article at BusinessWeek.com considering what Apple should do with its $12 billion cash hoard, Wall Street blogger Roger Ehrenberg explores the pros and cons of an internal VC fund for Apple and suggests that Steve Jobs et al consider the...
According to the WSJ, interim CEO Robert Fisher at the Gap, Inc. is counting on faster decision making and less bureaucracy to turn around the struggling clothing retailer. Fisher hopes to combat high turnover in critical leadership roles by attracting and...
Business Week online has a slide show featuring the most critical computer systems in the world. The focus is the systems that we rely on for day-to-day life - as individuals and businesses. ...the buzz of daily life is ever more punctuated by contact with...
Yesterday Citigroup announced that Gary Crittenden, currently CFO of AmEx, will be joining Citi as its CFO effective March 12th. Crittenden is often lauded as one of the most successful and effective CFOs around. He will be challenged in this new role, as Citi...
Johathan Clements, the WSJ personal finance columnist, has some tongue-in-cheek definitions of common Wall Street and financial phrases in his column, a few excerpts:Profit-taking: All-purpose explanation for why the market went down. Technical factors: Alternative...
