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...there was to be a filing cabinet, brimming with gender-related internships; and a rack with a full stock of the usual self-help pamphlets; and a rec room replete with “a hammock...where students could congregate and idle away the afternoon...
Utility investors, including the powerful California and New York public employee-retirement funds, are pressing TXU, whose stock is up about 20% this year, about its aggressive coal strategies. In a letter last May, the two retirement funds, which manage $400 billion in assets, expressed worries about the company "exposing itself to unprecedented compliance costs" should it be forced to retrofit its new coal-fired plants for possible greenhouse-gas limits...
Google is seeking growth and security, betting that the coterie of new colleagues on its team will strengthen its ability to live up to its $123 billion stock-market valuation. "Partnerships had not been a core part of the way we were running the company," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "When you're a small company, you have to do everything yourself. As you get more established, you realize you'll never get everything done by yourself...
Bubbles are great until they break. I've personally never been an investor, really. It's never been what I've done, except for investing in whole companies. With very few exceptions, the only stock that I've owned has been our Citigroup stock for the past 20 years...
Trust is terrific, but for the Sirota group, enthusiasm is the must-have for success. The Purchase, N.Y., consultancy calls it the foundation of company morale, talent retention, productivity, customer satisfaction and even higher stock prices. The consultants pitch themselves as enthusiasm builders, using methods like creating a "partnership culture" of shared business goals and joint decision making, and job-security policies like making layoffs the last choice, not the first...