THE AGENDA Can the Buck Stop at the Directors&#39; Table?
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NOTHING so concentrates the minds of corporate directors as the prospect of a shareholder lawsuit. So last week, as Michael D. Eisner and the board of the Walt Disney Company went on trial
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Most directors strive  for control. Werner Herzog thrives on chaos.
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No sense pointing the finger at Hewlett-Packard anymore; we have Congress and the FBI to do that. But I did want to discuss the âI didnât know what my employees/vendors/executive staff were doingâ defense -- which was, of course, made famous by Enron , so you have to know it just wonât do. Instead of looking backward, I spoke with a couple of experts on governance, privacy, risk, and compliance assessment about how companies can do the right thing in the future.
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The 108th Congress has been tough on the entertainment industry. Its broad legislative agenda aimed at protecting copyrights has so far failed to win approval, and its newly enacted tax loophole benefiting some of the studios has left some executives questioning the industry's leadership choices.
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How to avoid bad movies in the name of a good cause.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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After last week&#39;s settlement with San Francisco investment adviser Garrett Van Wagoner, you have to wonder how serious the Securities and Exchange Commission is about protecting mutual fund shareholders.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Hollywood directors risk big budgets and  reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives.
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Rising interest rates, record oil  prices and geopolitical instability may send chills down the  spines of finance directors of debt-strapped global  corporations.
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Wall Street&#39;s dog days of August have the potential for a serious bite this year. August is traditionally slow for investment bankers, fund managers and traders on Wall
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Budget cuts and old habits may interfere with good intentions.
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NEW YORK -- The NHL board of governors will meet next month, when commissioner Gary Bettman could seek permission to call off the 2004-05 season.
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Company executives are putting their money where their mouths are.
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A question. Is putting an inveterate gambler in charge of the world&#39;s biggest bookmaker not dissimilar to handing Wayne Rooney the keys to the brothel?
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The director has read the screenplay, but has not come to a decision yet.
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The company is in trouble once again. What's it going to take?