Word: investor
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...accountable, the jury in essence sanctioned the entire bean-counting industry for its failure to police rogue corporations. As the jurors deliberated for the ninth day last Friday, the stock market was tumbling to its lowest level since Sept. 21, much of the decline tied to the lack of investor confidence in corporate America. The verdict also revved up prosecutors for their next target: Enron and its executives, including former CEO and chairman Ken Lay and former CFO Andrew Fastow...
...deepening erosion of investor trust moved the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) last week to propose rules requiring that a majority of a company's directors have no ties to the company and that shareholders approve all stock-option plans. Henry Paulson, the normally low-profile chairman and CEO of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (Tyco's financial adviser), was one of many business leaders ringing the bell for reform. "American business has never been under such scrutiny. To be blunt, much of it is deserved," Paulson said in a speech calling for curbs on when a CEO can profit...
...Merrill Lynch, he headed the firm’s major effort at online trading, enabling customers to do business with the investment giant directly over the Internet for the first time. In 1999, Institutional Investor, a prominent trade publication, named him one of the country’s top leaders in online finance...
...there's another promising angle to this deal that its promoters seem almost shy about, perhaps because of investor aversion to anything related to dotcoms. Despite its dowdy image, Sears, like Lands' End, has quietly mastered the art of pleasing what marketers call "multichannel" customers--those who use a combination of stores, catalogs and websites. Sears has used its website effectively not only to sell goods for mail delivery but also to drive traffic into its bricks-and-mortar stores, say, when a shopper at sears.com checks out the features and price of a freezer and then heads...
...gain investor trust and employee loyalty, Ogami deliberately set about developing his own cult of personality. In daily business meetings, his employees were forced to chant his pithy sayings from what he called "the messiah's creed"; those who balked risked getting the sack. Like a video-age Wizard of Oz, Ogami projected to the public a larger-than-life?and largely fictional?image of himself in reams of expensively produced promotional material. He marketed himself as one-part Jet Li and one-part Mohandas Gandhi, a martial arts expert with a cartoon catchphrase: "I will save the world...