August 25, 2011 – 9:07 am
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Southwest Regional Conference in San Antonio. I’m on record as having said this before, but I like to repeat it: I believe that the Southwest…
The insider trading trial of the century has started in Manhattan featuring Raj Rajaratnam, his Galleon hedge fund and a diverse set of characters ranging from a former Goldman Sachs director to consultants and naturally, other hedge fund managers. T…
February 1, 2011 – 1:52 pm
I’m happy to report that I will be speaking on February 15th at the Houston NIRI chapter on the topic of “IR Insights from Academia: Does Any of That Fancy Theory Apply in a Real World Context?” This will be the second time I’ve given this ta…
August 17, 2010 – 1:07 pm
In the early part of the twenty-first century we all seem to lead time stressed lives. The press of business competes with the demands of ever increasing amounts of information that need to be absorbed. There never seems to enough time in the day to …
February 10, 2010 – 10:37 am
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed for a podcast by Broc Romanek who writes the blog The Corporate Counsel (www.thecorporatecounsel.net/blog). Broc’s blog is one of the best around for digging into the technical requirements surroundi…
February 2, 2010 – 11:10 am
First, a brief reminder that my seminar “Fundamentals of Investor Relations” will be held February 24th in Houston. The seminar blends real world experience with some of the tools we teach in business school such as valuation, decision tree analy…
January 27, 2010 – 3:46 pm
There is still time to sign up for my seminar “Fundamentals of Investor Relations” on February 24th in Houston. Just go to my website, www.palizzapartners.com and click on the seminars tab for more details.One of the things you learn about in finance…
January 20, 2010 – 11:52 am
First, a brief announcement: registration is now open for my seminar, “Fundamentals of Investor Relations” to be held February 24th at The Houstonian Hotel. If you are interested in attending, simply go to my web site www.palizzapartners.com, click…
January 11, 2010 – 11:24 am
Competition is a wonderful thing. Competing offerings generally result in better offerings, more choices and lower prices for the customer. Conversely, when an organization has a monopoly or near monopoly on a product, prices go up and there is no wa…
January 4, 2010 – 1:13 pm
First, a brief commercial: I am happy to announce my seminar, “Fundamentals of Investor Relations” will be given in Houston on February 24, 2010. The workshop was developed from my MBA course at Rice University and is designed to be a comprehensive o…
