Almost every day there’s another one, a top executive thrown out of his job for backdating options. These are some otherwise perfectly respectable people we’re talking about: William McGuire at United Health, Shelby Bonnie at CNET, Andrew McKelvey at Monster. Even Apple‘s Steve Jobs has gotten tangled in the backdating web, although there are no [...]
Telekom Austria CEO Boris Nemsic paid a visit to Fortune yesterday afternoon. He’s a straight-talking engineer, originally from Sarajevo, who sports the only display of Don-Johnson-in-Miami-Vice scruff that I’ve ever seen on the CEO of a major corporation. (For some reason he shaved it for the photo that accompanies his official bio above; here’s what [...]
It’s important these days for journalists to own up to their biases, so let me just say up front that I’m a card carrying member of Athletics Nation. I’ve been an A’s fan since 1971, not counting a brief and shameful dalliance with the Giants in the late 1970s (when Charlie Finley let his team [...]
The population of the United States will pass 300 million this month, says the Census Bureau. Only about 220 more years, according to my deeply unscientific extrapolations of United Nations population projections, and we’ll pass China! China will start losing population towards the middle of this century, predicts the UN’s Population Division. Japan and Europe [...]
I have no idea what the media landscape will look like a few years down the road. But I do know that blogs–or some even better means of self-publishing that hasn’t been named yet–will only grow in importance. Not because I’m writing one, but because there are so many examples of the genre that fill [...]
