‘That’s not a strategy’
Henry R. Kravis, co-chair of KKR, in the July/August Bloomberg Markets, on interviewing CEOs of potential investments: I compare their responses to the dot-com period around 2000. Back then I’d ask,...
View ArticleHillary (or Donald) ate my homework
Ya gotta love it! This just in from today’s Wall Street Journal: If you believe U.S. corporations, Americans are drinking less coffee, eating fewer doughnuts and taking fewer cruises, all because of...
View ArticleGift bags and a chat with shareholders
A nice feature on the Estée Lauder annual meeting ritual – a gathering of mostly older ladies dressed to a T, gathering for a continental breakfast “beautifully displayed,” a gift bag of cosmetics,...
View ArticleWhat’s the value of your brand?
Andy Warhol’s “Coca-Cola [3]” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The typical raw materials of valuation are numbers – and investor relations people get very comfortable working with metrics that...
View ArticleSkin in the game: ‘I’ and ‘We’
Investors like to know a CEO and other leaders have “skin in the game” – a personal stake in the company’s success in creating value. Now a study by accounting profs at Tulane University suggests that...
View ArticleEasing the small-cap regulatory burden
Companies at the low end of the market cap spectrum often view compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations as a Sisyphean burden, with costly, recurring, quarterly and yearly work....
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