Topic: Bank of America Corporation

BofA Goes Green

It looks like Bank of America (BofA) is trying to be the bank of Al Gore. America's largest retail bank has already cast its vote in the illegal immigration issue, and on Tuesday BofA weighed in on the global warming debate, ...READ»

Watching Financial Institutions Get Crushed

Watching these financial institutions get crushed makes for some interesting reading. Of course, since I work in the shorts stock marketing, I have no information or way to know if Bank of America would buy Lehman. But, the ...READ»

Buying American Citizenship…on Credit

While comprehensive immigration reform simmers on the political backburner in Washington D.C., banks are embracing the nation's 12 million-plus illegal immigrants, targeting their financial products--checking accounts, mortgages and, ...READ»

Big Dumb Bank Wedding

We all know the pitfalls of poorly planned mergers and acquisitions--diminished shareholder value, damaged internal cultures--but I recently had a chance to experience first-hand yet another significant snag of corporate marriages. ...READ»

Do Financial Brands Add Up?

The global economic meltdown has been bad news for financial services brands, straining the media of marketing communications as much as balance sheets.  The fundamental question is whether branding can overcome the rational as ...READ»

The Big Bank Balancing Act

16 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com I remember the good old days when banks used to lend money to “we the people.” Now we’re being forced to lend money to them. Not so long ago, banks were eager to get ...READ»

Noises On

Music and sound can be an integral part of a business's brand. Many leaders listen to music to inspire creativity and innovation. And now, it's been found that even your corporate voicemail welcome message can make an impact on your ...READ»

September Song For Wall Street

29 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com It wasn’t just autumn leaves that started falling last September; it was the entire investment banking system. When Lehman Brothers got into deep financial trouble and ...READ»

Driving Employees to Hybrids

Sure, sales of hybrid cars are going strong, but in case buyers need added incentive, a Boston Globe article published today highlights new perks being offered by some companies to their employees for owning a hybrid car. Bank of ...READ»

Returns: Don't BANK On It!

Anxieties around the banking sector have once again paralyzed the markets. With Citigroup and Bank of America trading like lottery tickets and negative surprises emanating from State Street and others, we seem to be right back ...READ»

What's The ROI On That Skybox?

Bank of America's ticket inventory numbers in the hundreds of thousands, including seats in more than 80 suites for teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco Giants. Managing that inventory? That wasn't ...READ»

Talent Agents

In my last column we revealed that the top ten companies for developing executive talent, voted by a jury of their peers, are: GE, Johnson & Johnson, Dell, IBM, Weyerhaeuser, Bank of America, PepsiCo, UBS, Procter & Gamble, and Cisco. ...READ»

Careers: Bank of America Hires an Avatar

When I get a warm and fuzzy feeling about a bank it's usually because I'm watching a tearjerker TV commercial. Some bank has rebuilt a blighted neighborhood or loaned an underprivileged mom the dough to build a bakery. Until ...READ»

Mergers Can Lead to More Security Woes

Every day it seems like we’re hearing about a bank merger or at least banks talking about merging. Washington Mutual and J.P. Morgan Chase. Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. It doesn’t look like we’ll be hearing any less of ...READ»

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Hennion and Walsh: What's Ahead For The Financial System?

"With the continued news and noise around AIG, Washington Mutual, Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, it all seems like it's going up to a crescendo in terms of the doom and gloom and bad news."READ»

People Acumen

In an excerpt from his new book Leaders at All Levels, Ram Charan discusses which social qualities make someone a good leader.READ»

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Economic Stimulus: We Cannot Afford To Not Afford It

Monday, January 19, 2009 IOUSA Markets declined precipitously last week as the kick off of 4th quarter earnings season validated expectations that there would be no corporate earnings, and the banking system received its first cash ...READ»

Can Chicago's PrivateBancorp Hire Its Way Into the Top Tier?

You can build a business step by step, from the ground up. You can build one through acquisitions. Or you can just poach your competitors' best talent.READ»

Enterprise Community Partners Bringing Energy-Efficent Homes to the Masses With $4 Billion Project

It's easy enough to make fancy new homes energy-efficient, but what about the millions of poorly-insulated American houses that are already standing? And what about future homeowners and renters who can't afford the upgrades to ...READ»

What the Foreign Web Says about Our Economy

Read The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the domestic cable news websites, and you'd think the American economy was combusting before our eyes. Foreign newspapers, however, are much more sanguine on their English-language ...READ»

Worst Trading Day Since 9/11, Tech Stocks Take Cover

The foundering of several bedrock financial companies helped create a perfect storm today, spurring to one of the worst trading days in nearly a decade. The tech sector didn't escape the catastrophe, but fared more buoyantly than ...READ»

Giving Credit

I didn't think much of Discover Bank's early experimentation with smaller-scale credit card designs because I don't have a Discover card, but a Bank of America Visa ad that aired last night during The Gilmore Girls made me reassess ...READ»

Ideo's Roshi Givechi Offers Six Ways to Make Energy Conservation Electrifiying

When Roshi Givechi first came to Ideo from Microsoft she thought she had made a mistake. The famously human-centered firm wasn't giving her many opportunities to design for real people. "I thought, is this for me?" she ...READ»

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