KIND was the only nutritional bar to make it into Good Housekeeping’s listing of the 100 best convenience foods. This follows on KIND Mango Macadamia being chosen as the Best Product of the Year out of all thousands of natural food products introduced at the Natural Products Expo earlier this fall (Oct 2008).
BusinessWeek’s Stacey Perman asked me to share this opportunity with social entrepreneurs: …BusinessWeek’s upcoming roundup of the most promising social entrepreneurs in the U.S. – those who aim to both turn a profit and solve social problems. We are now in the process of searching for great candidates, and I want to ask for your [...]
Some ad campaign ideas by OneVoice Israel to encourage people in the moderate but traditionally passive majority to remember that not voting is a proxy for those from the extremes to speak for them… The caption translates to "it’s ok, don’t vote. They will vote for you."
I was very proud to support Obama’s Presidential campaign from the primaries all the way to his historic victory. And like most of the nation and the world, I have high hopes for his leadership and administration. It is from this vantage point that I am so enormously turned off by all the emails I [...]
This gripping article from Michael Lewis (Liars’ Poker) and David Einhorn is a must-read: THE END OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD AS WE KNOW IT January 4, 2009 Op-Ed Contributors, NYT The End of the Financial World as We Know It By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new [...]
Steven Heydt from Elite Island Resorts came up with a creative promotion that not only aligns investors’ depressed moods to the plus of a vacation in his chain, but also landed them broad media coverage, like this story in the New York Times. December 6, 2008 Swap Stocks for a Week at the Beach By [...]
Here is another good article on the misaligned incentives that came about when Wall Street went public. November 16, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor Our Risk, Wall Street’s Reward By WILLIAM D. COHAN AFTER nearly 18 months spent doing triage on one of the worst financial crises in our nation’s history, there is now a shred of [...]
I have always admired Goldman Sachs as the smartest of the smart, as "the" Investment Banking firm. When I haven’t gotten a chance to catch up with emails and reports, and I go back and notice "forecasts" and predictions from columnists or analysts, I love taking a look at how accurate they were. From a [...]
Michael Lewis (from "Liar’s Poker") wrote a piece in Portfolio Magazine that is a must reading (this earlier piece is also very good). It is at once nauseating, chilling, and fascinating to see how our financial system is a house of cards. A couple years ago I got into a passionate debate with friends from [...]
Gretchen Morgenson wrote here an excellent piece in the New York Times about how Merrill Lynch executives systematically dismantled all risk-control mechanisms while pursuing unfettered profits, and how this led to the company’s downfall. Smaller businesses have to similarly navigate between the drive for profits and the need for caution. Many years ago I realized [...]