ESPN's annual ESPY awards telecast is celebrated for bringing full-on Oscar-style glitz and red carpet trappings to the international sports world. The event is also famed for emotional, and often galvanizing acceptance speeches. (ESPN itself...
ESPN's annual ESPY awards telecast is celebrated for bringing full-on Oscar-style glitz and red carpet trappings to the international sports world. The event is also famed for emotional, and often galvanizing acceptance speeches. (ESPN itself...
Code names unleash all sorts of creative possibilities for finance tombstones. A code name explains, for instance, how a pagoda-themed deal toy design came to commemorate an investment in a portfolio of non-performing mortgages----based in Spain...
"Custom Lucite" is a term that's been subject to a good deal of misuse and confusion. Some vendors offer "custom" Lucites, especially "custom Lucite awards", with promises of off-the-shelf availability and next-day shipment. But if these vendors are...
He’s been called “the greatest investor in history”… “The most fascinating American success story of our time”…. “The inventor and caretaker of a rare persona that has no equivalent in American business”… Who is...
It’s understandable that employee awards and recognition programs might have taken on added significance during the past several years. After all, employee engagement is a very real and immediate workplace challenge. A recent Harvard Business...
If may be new to deal tombstones or, as they're also more commonly known, "deal toys". To the extent you do know them, they might seem like a waste of time, money, and effort. The word "toy", after all, usually tends to denote something that,...
Why Food and Beverage Tombstones Stand Out What's so special about these financial transactions---and their tombstones? Maybe it's the fact that they usually involve common, everyday items. Add to that the fact they often also involve...
Are there M&A tombstones in your immediate future? Even if you don't fully buy into the M&A "tidal wave" forecasted by some sources, there's pretty good evidence that, at the very least, surf's up. Since September, announced mergers have...
Little Richard, John Lecarré, a Kurdish carpenter, an Afghani women's soccer team, a Ugandan opposition leader, Daniel Radcliff's Harry Potter stunt double, North Korean escapees, a group of Estonian women, and a lone, elderly Norwegian man will...