September 24, 2009 – 7:54 pm
If you’ve worked on stock offerings or M&A transactions, you have probably noticed that the smartest guy in the room is always the investment banker. At least in the investment banker’s opinion. (And I say this without any envy or doubts.)
So I perked up when I saw a piece in my college alumni magazine about a [...]
Over the weekend I tinkered with this blog a bit to add an index by subjects – under the heading “Browse by topic” in the right-hand column.
Not a big change and not sexy looking, just a small enhancement aiming to make IR Café more useful and easier to navigate. The idea is that if you’re interested [...]
Ya gotta love that Harvard Business Review! And Thomas H. Lee, MD, a prof at Harvard Medical School who writes the magazine’s Health & Well-Being column among other accomplishments. In the June issue, the good doctor tells us what we want to hear in “Good News for Coffee Addicts”:
What’s the engine that drives American business? [...]
Today marks one year since I began writing IR Café. The blog is a way to contribute to the conversation in the investor relations profession, exchange ideas with colleagues, clarify my own thoughts, and reach out to IR people I might not otherwise meet.
How very gratifying! Among the results:
Experimenting with social media – and the interrelationships [...]
Headline on the General Motors news release today:
GM ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH U.S. TREASURY AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS PROVIDING FAST TRACK TO COMPETITIVE FUTURE FOR ‘NEW GM’
Translation: GM filed bankruptcy today.
Lesson: Spin doesn’t really make it happy news.
Also, four words say more than 18 words.
Headline on the General Motors news release today:
GM ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH U.S. TREASURY AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS PROVIDING FAST TRACK TO COMPETITIVE FUTURE FOR ‘NEW GM’
Translation: GM filed bankruptcy today.
Lesson: Spin doesn’t really make it happy news.
Also, four words say more than 18 words.
Keeping a sense of perspective can protect you from embarrassment, and this holds true in the chaotic world of social media. Goldman Sachs seems to have lost track of what’s important by sending its lawyers after a blogger who is criticizing the company – a “corporate gadfly.”
A gadfly, you know, is a little person with [...]
The UK’s Guardian carries the best story I’ve seen for April Fool’s Day:
Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology,the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.
The move, described as “epochal” by media [...]
I guess we learned a couple of things in Monday’s market:
Rallies don’t go on forever, especially amid negative business fundamentals (say, two of the Big Three teetering on the brink).
Attention CEOs: President Obama is an activist shareholder, and if you take the government’s money you should know who’s in charge.
Economic and industrial policy is unhinged from [...]
Imagine my delight when I opened up a box of Cheerios and found a surprise inside: a snap-together plastic sports car. Cool! … Yes, I know. They say men are just 8-year-old boys in grown-up bodies, and this explains my glee upon running across a cheap little toy.
Call it quirky, but the surprise in the [...]
