Love is the Single Bottom Line
Over the past several years I’ve followed the evolution of the conversation about Corporate Social Responsibility with great interest. The notion first hit my radar screen when I was an investment banker working with retail companies and apparel manufacturers and Nike was challenged to address working conditions at its factories in Asia. On a trip [...]
Take the Money and Run
Screwed. Scammed. Such delicious, outrage-inducing, front-page-of-the-NY Post-worthy words. Unexpected that they’d be used in defense of a company—LinkedIn, in this case, following its much anticipated, eye-popping public market debut on the New York Stock Exchange last week. And rather than emanating from the NY Post, the headlines came from former Wall Street analyst, Business Insider [...]
Remaining Relevant
Felix Salmon is a finance blogger for Reuters. On Monday, on the eve of Deutsche Börse’s official announcement that it would acquire the New York Stock Exchange, he penned a New York Times OpEd, dramatically titled “Wall Street’s Dead End”. His thesis: the US stock market is on its way to irrelevance–and, by extension, we [...]
