Tag Archives: conference calls

Using Computers to Predict If a CEO is Lying

There is an interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal discussing an academic paper by a couple of Stanford University Graduate School of Business professors. The article is entitled, “For Lying CEO’s, ‘Team’ Not ‘I’” and refe…

Open mouth, insert … No, wait!

“Keeping Your Foot Away From Your Mouth” This headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal piece (p.D1) highlights a common human frailty. Citing gaffes from business leaders, politicians and entertainers, the WSJ says words do matter – and verbal errors can cause lasting damage. In investor relations, of course, foot-in-mouth syndrome is one of our worst [...]

A Healthy Debate

There’s an interesting column in today’s New York Times entitled “Unhealthy Fixation on Job’s Illness” by David Carr, whose column, The Media Equation, looks at business events form a media perspective. In the column he basically says that…

What’s up with live blogging?

One of the strange inventions of our new media era is live blogging of conference calls by financial media. What’s up with that? 
Today, for example, The Wall Street Journal is live blogging the Goldman Sachs conference call on its AIG risk. The odd thing is, of course, it’s a conference call - an investor could [...]

Some of My Favorite (IR Website) Things

Now that Thanksgiving is over, I thought that I would get in a Christmas holiday mood by listing some of my favorite (IR website) things. (Obscure fact of the day: The song “Some of My Favorite Things”, was sung by Julie Andrews in the movie The So…