Meet Leah Kane, a retired secretary from southern California who took on SL financier Charles Keating and won ... sort of. Here's how a victim of the U.S. bond scandal rallied an army of retirement-home residents to battle fraud at the highest level and teach the world a thing or two about justice.READ»
Dubbed "the rescue squad" because it has won so many high-profile, high-stakes, high-speed cases for American big business, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher explains how it operates -- and wins -- with efficiency, flexibility, and speed.READ»
Amid the rubble of lower Manhattan, companies are working miracles to get their operations back to work. Firsthand reports from the New York Board of Trade, a Verizon switching center at 140 West Street, and other places under (re)construction.READ»
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August 9, 1995: The Big Bang
Netscape, just 16 months old, goes public on the Nasdaq. Shares, first priced at $28, open at $71. ...READ»
I was standing on the patio of a friend's house in Hastings, New York, talking to a partner at one of the nation's leading law firms. I asked him about his work. "You wouldn't believe how weird it is," he said. "On our side, we've ...READ»
Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»
"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»
Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call.READ»
That's one possible conclusion in the wake of the Enron scandal. According to David Maister, who's been studying professional-services firms for more than 20 years, it's time to clear the air.READ»
The worst thing about recent business scandals is their lingering aftereffect: How can you move forward when you don't know who you can depend on? Karl E. Weick says the answer is inside highly reliable organizations. For them, uncertainty is the ''good stuff.''READ»
Want to know how to avoid being fooled by the next too-good-to-be-true stock-market darling? Just remember these six tips from the cynics of Wall Street, the short sellers.READ»
Internet companies have all made the same strategic shift: From "Get big fast" to "Cash is king." But how do you conserve cash without throttling back on growth? How do you spend less without missing huge opportunities?READ»
Intelsat has helped make global communications work -- while struggling to succeed as an international agency that answers to many different governments. Now it's up to Ramu Potarazu, Intelsat's privatization czar, to make the agency a real company.READ»
Don't touch your dial! CNBC has become the live feed of the new economy. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at CNBC, a network that has reinvented the way TV works.READ»
