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Comment 2 on - Brocade CEO Greg Reyes - Backdating Options

December 27, 2007

December 27, 2007 Update on Commentary (see below, December 10 post by this writer. Just before Christmas, CEO Gregory Reyes received his gift for the season -- the federal cour postponed his sentencing ("indefinitely, says the...[more]

The Editor's Commentary on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -- April 16, 1963...

December 27, 2007

We include this document in Accountability Central because of the importance of Dr. King's comments to his fellow clergy leaders in the south...and everywhere in the USA. His words ring true and call out to our conscience 44...[more]

Extreme CEO Payoffs: When Shareholders Lose; Exec Pay Firms Scrutinized; Study Sees No Tie Between Lavish Salaries For Honchos, Share Price Performance

December 10, 2007

On CEO Compensation and Public Response to Those Egregious Pay Packages... The compensation advisory industry experienced real growth and penetration of corporate suites when a fellow named Graef Crystal was on the consulting...[more]

Comment on - Apple Macintosh Computers Likely To Gain Market Share; An IPod, IPhone "Halo Effect'; ChangeWave's New Survey Confirms Trend Of The Mac Gaining Ground On HP, Dell

December 10, 2007

Oh, we love this Apple-Microsoft and PC World marketing competition. The first computers we bought for our business were expensive IBM "5100" minis -- at $8,000 (then) or more per processor with a whopping 64-k RAM. Two...[more]

Comment on - Brocade CEO Greg Reyes - Backdating Options

December 10, 2007

We Are Not Always Happy When CEOs are Sentenced... We don't think anyone likes to see someone else go to jail for "white collar" crimes. "There but for grace...go I..." we might be thinking when we read about these cases. [more]

Comment on - Taking Responsibility

December 10, 2007

An interesting story from Ireland...worthy of reading by USA boards and executives...more on what's heading this way...and what is now global in scope...[more]

Comment on - Offshore Competition No Joy For Toymakers

December 08, 2007

A moment here for jingo-ism. Free and fair trade is good for everyone -- may the best products make it to the marketplace, at the best prices. Many more Americans are able to enjoy the good life -- we are a nation of passionate,...[more]

Environmental, Social and Governance Standards: Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?

December 08, 2007

Well done! Bill Baue is one of the best, most informed commentators in the business, writing in depth on the important "corporate social responsiblity" and "social investing" and "sustainability" issues that affect the private,...[more]

Comment on - Immigrants' Children Grow Fluent In English, Study Says; Latinos See The Language As The Key To Success, Pew Research Shows

December 04, 2007

I remember reading that back in the last great wave of European immigration to the USA (in the early 1900s), more than 100 languages were spoken in the New York City schools. (There are even more today!) But by third or fourth...[more]

Comment on - Venezuela's Lame-Duck Dictator

December 04, 2007

The world is continuing to shrink and become a village. "Red Hugo" (as Institutional Investor magazine characterized him four years ago in a cover story) was and is a threat to democracy and capitalism -- thus putting him and the...[more]

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