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Strategy
Strategic marketing
'WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH …'
… the tough take out an ad campaign. That's the gist of the advice from – you guessed it – the marketing folks at the Wharton School of Management. Marketing is often the first thing to get cut when the finance director takes hi...
06 December 2008
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Governance
Board composition
HOW TO RESIGN
Directors sometimes have to resign, and not always to spend more time with the family. If there has been a fundamental disagreement over policy or process, conscience make dictate a change. Perhaps the director fears a personal ...
19 December 2008
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Responsiveness
Disclosure
CESR WANTS VIEWS ON TRANSPARENCY IN NON-EQUITY MARKETS
Once a back-burner issue on the agenda of the European Union, non-equity markets are back under the gaze of the authorities. The credit crisis, provoked in no small way by credit default swaps and other derivative instruments, h...
28 December 2008
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views
Hedge funds
MADOFF – ICEBERG OR TIP?
The Lex column of the Financial Times used the headline "Madoff with ya money", but nobody was laughing. The story grew increasingly grizzly as the details came out. Bernard Madoff, one of the New York elite, a former Nas...
18 December 2008
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reviews
Strategy in practice
MORE, BETTER, FASTER
The consultancies around the world have been falling over each other trying to be faster about getting books and papers published on how companies can become more nimble, agile, resilient or some other adjective about coping wi...
10 October 2008
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