Speculator: Fear or Wonder
Many years ago, when I was a starving - or at least an occasionally hungry - student, I put a windfall of three five pound notes...
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ESG Archive
Encounters: Tokyo Times
I'm thinking of quitting,' said Mike. 'Quitting what?' I asked. 'The agency or the investor relations business?' 'The country,'...
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The Buy-back Boom
Pity poor executives with profits too high. It's hard for many American companies to decide just what to do with all that excess...
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Riding the Rollercoaster
Imagine being the investor relations officer of Apple Computer, an icon of American business that has fallen on hard times. For an...
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Encounters: Expresso Governance
Where beans were once counted, now they are ground and brewed. Mary Ellen and I were making our way through what had once been a...
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Damnation or Salvation?
With Nick Leeson serving his six-and-a-half year sentence in a Singapore jail and the catalogue of derivatives disasters...
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Straits the Gate
How do you conduct investor relations in a country awash with capital but with an undeveloped stock exchange, not least when the...
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Cut it Out
It's not so long ago that media monitoring was a pure commodity business. Serried ranks of sharp-eyed youngsters would clip...
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A Proxy on both your Houses
Is there gold in them tha'r malls? Texas property company American Industrial Properties has now been the subject of a three year...
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