The batch is growing, so here again are my thumbnail reviews of business books–or, more accurately, of their covers. I review the jackets. You review the contents. I’m that lazy. The rules:
1) Write a comment telling me which book you want, and fill in the e-mail box so I can write and get your address.
2) Receive book in mail.
3) Read …
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on how the networks are building buzz for the new season’s shows by courting–yes–bloggers. To promote The New Adventures of Old Christine, CBS targeted mommy bloggers (bolds mine):
Warner Bros., the studio that produces the show for CBS, identified 12 blogs about motherhood, a key theme in
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In the comments to my Monday Chrysler post, James asks a couple of interesting questions:
Do you feel that Toyota and other rising automakers will face challenges similar to the Big Three in the future, once their current workers start to retire? Of all the industries facing waves of boomers retiring, why has the auto industry been
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At Seeking Alpha this morning, hyperprolific venture capitalist/blogger Paul Kedrosky has this to say about the Chrysler deal:
I’m sure I won’t be the only [one] to be intrigued by the juxtaposition of Daimler (DCX) paying Cerberus almost a billion dollars to take Chrysler off its hands yesterday and last Friday’s announcement that Tesla
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I’m participating in a discussion over at the TPMCafe Book Club on Dan Gross’s Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy. Because I’m such an environmentalist, I figured I should recycle my first post here:
This book is a wonderful counterweight to the mostly finger-wagging historical literature about bubbles. The idea that irrational
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Here’s an interesting number, from the footnotes to Daimler Chrysler’s annual report for 2006: $18.5 billion. It’s the estimated current value of health-care benefits that Chrysler has promised its many retirees, minus the money Chrysler has set aside to pay for them.
Contrast that with what private equity firm Cerberus is ponying up to …
I urge you to read Dan Kadlec’s column in this week’s TIME, titled “Making Flexible Retirements Work.” It begins:
Making the most of our retirement-age population has become a hot issue in Washington, where for the past 75 years federal policy has been designed around easing folks who are past 50 out of the workforce rather than
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My belated print contribution to the great media cud-chewing over Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones bid is in the new Time (with Mitt Romney on the cover) and here. It begins:
In 1902, Boston boardinghouse owner Jessie Barron bought Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, with a down payment of $2,500. She did this at the behest
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Have you checked out this new ad from McDonald’s? (Thanks to my colleague Barbara Kiviat for the tip-off.)
FYI: the blonde lady in the ad is Karen King, East Division President of McDonald’s USA.
Now what do you suppose brought this expensive campaign on? Is Mickey D’s hurting for workers? For the varsity jacket set, is it cooler to …
A friend who grew up in Pasadena alerted me to this AP article about a guy who runs a local news Website there. He has apparently decided to outsource reporting to India:
James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the two-year-old Web site pasadenanow.com, acknowledged it sounds strange to have journalists in India cover news in this
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Meetings, meetings, meetings. Some days, like yesterday, I feel like my day begins and ends in meetings. And I’m not even a manager.
I meet sources to hear about their new book or research or business; editors to bounce around story ideas; colleagues to grouse about all the freaking meetings. Yesterday I even met with two nice lady …
His Rupertness has a full-page column at the beginning of the opinion section of today’s New York Post announcing News Corp.’s plans to become carbon neutral by 2010. It begins:
I grew up in Melbourne, Australia; the last few months and years have brought some changes there:
In Melbourne, 2006 was the 10th straight year with
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