The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the venerable McGraw-Hill Companies, which owns my former employer Standard & Poor’s, is decamping from its longtime home on 49th St. to the S&P building at 55 Water St. in lower Manhattan. In the process, the company will jettison the McGraw-Hill […]
Sure enough, Memorial Day weekend brought news of several mergers and acquisitions, including Charter’s swallowing up of Time Warner Cable and Avago Technologies’ ingestion of Broadcom. (Technically that happened a few days after Memorial Day, but you can bet that a large group of bankers, lawyers and PR […]
In this episode, Chris recalls a mishap with Amazon that could have been a disaster. But thankfully, his client had a good sense of humor. Listen here: http://bit.ly/1DElg1H
Regular readers of this blog will remember this post, which I have now done as a podcast. Listen to it here: http://bit.ly/1yP0ubw
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An Ignominious Anniversary and a Weird Connection to the Present.
Next week will bring the 26th anniversary of the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill. The details of the spill are well known and have been extensively reported. In short, on March 24, 1989 at about midnight, the Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound […]
I used to feel flattered when someone asked for my opinion about something. It suggested that because of my perspicacity, there was some importance attached to my view. But all that has changed. Lately, even the most insignificant interaction with a company results in a request for my […]
Nothing ruins a war story like a witness. When you claim that you were somewhere you weren’t, that’s usually called a lie. When you claim that something happened to you that didn’t, that’s a lie, right? Most of the time, when you claim that you saw things that […]
The Audiobook of An Honest Day’s Work is available on Audible, and will be on Amazon and iTunes in a couple of days. A perfect Christmas gift! http://bit.ly/1zvDmDk
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