The votes are in, and the best sound-bite from the Democratic candidates’ debate last week belonged to Hillary Clinton. Not only was it the best retort of the night, it was perhaps the shortest sound-bite in presidential debate history.
Risky moves in the restaurant industry are usually confined to the menu. But Union Square Hospitality Group, owner of some of New York’s most renowned eateries, took a bold step last week by announcing it would end tipping. It shows that even a successful business sometimes has to make a radical change to thrive.
Goldman Sachs released its quarterly results last week over Twitter, abandoning the news distribution services it had used since becoming a public company in 1999. It’s welcome news for Twitter, which could use the boost, but not for Businesswire and PRNewswire, the two giants in the news services industry. Silence from the SEC suggests more […]
Like a modern-day Molotov cocktail, the lawsuit filed by Bill Gross against his former employer and colleagues at Pimco burst into flame on the internet, just as intended. It’s an example of how lawyers are starting to realize that telling a sizzling story is at least as important as making a strong legal argument.
A CEO can be vague about a lot of things, but there’s one clear sign he is frustrated by a lagging stock price – a big newspaper ad. Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, is the latest to write a check to proclaim the virtues of his company’s shares. Will it work?
Give UBS credit for bravely launching a major ad campaign when antipathy toward big banks is as strong as ever. The ads pose deeply personal questions in a bid to put UBS in the middle of an individual’s most critical dialogue. But will people let UBS inside?
Congratulations, you’re a public company. Now what? An IPO is a crowning achievement for a company and its management, the fruit of much hard work. But being a public company can present challenges they might never have faced before. We have created some guidelines – called The Ten Commandments of Investor Relations for Newly Public Companies – to […]
We’re past the point where Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican heap can be explained by luck or a passing summer fling. No, it’s more than that, and Hillary Clinton and her advisers could learn a thing or two from how Trump is campaigning.
When Apple shares were plunging amid a broad market rout yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook penned a short email to Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” to provide reassurance about Apple’s business in China. The shares promptly rallied. It’s not always that easy to quell a panic, but there are a few important lessons […]
With news about a newly discovered earth-like planet and out-of-this-world comments from Donald Trump, we hardly noticed when a little article on Bridgewater Associates passed through our orbit last week. It was a rare galactic phenomenon: the non-clarification.