The Case for Sustainable Business as Good Business

In Sustainable Excellence, Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell make a compelling argument that profits and sustainability aren’t mutually exclusive. Their hype-free research is thorough, with wide-ranging examples at companies big…

Wall Street Pay to Hit Record High This Year

Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year, growing 4% in 2010 at nearly three dozen of the top financial institutions.
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China’s Harbin Electric Sparks a Buyout Bid From Its CEO

Harbin Electric’s CEO and Baring Private Equity Asia Group are proposing taking the Chinese electric motor maker private with a bid of $24 per share, or $752.2 million. It’s a notably rare instance of a private equity-backed bu…

Why It’s a Mistake to Rely on TV’s Stock Market Gurus

The financial media loves to pluck struggling analysts from obscurity and propel them to fame on the backs of a few good calls, then shoot them full of arrows at them when their predictions start to fail. And inevitably, those …