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Boeing’s million-plus consultant…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Last August, Boeing (BA) announced a management reshuffling that included the departure of Scott Carson, who had been running the company’s Commercial Airplanes unit. The release, which was dated Aug. 31 — when few people were likely paying attention, given how sleepy things are at the end of August — noted that the changes would [...]

A lavish send-off for Pulte…

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Thursdays are my current events days. For people in the working world, this might seem strange, but it’s common lingo used among us nerdy Northwestern journalism students. Without a doubt, every Thursday our professors begin class with an extensive current events quiz, and I must admit that while I usually do well on these, yesterday [...]

CBS’ last CFO still hanging around…

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Back in June, CBS (CBS) announced that its CFO, Fred Reynolds, planned to retire in mid-August. That same day, the company announced that Joseph Ianniello would be taking over as CFO on July 20.
Now Ianniello was no novice. He had been with CBS or Viacom (VIA) for the past 12 years and had been deputy [...]

Smithfield’s Chairman re-ups as a $1 million consultant…

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Ever since he retired as CEO in August 2006, Joseph W. Luter III has been serving as non-executive Chairman and a consultant to Smithfield Foods (SFD). The original consulting agreement noted that Luter was being tapped to provide “cooperation with the Company in the transition of management of the Company following the Executive’s retirement” among [...]

AIG: Blame the negative publicity…

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Journalists really can’t catch a break. The daily tales of more layoffs, unpaid furloughs and magazine closings (including Portfolio, which ran a monthly footnoted column). But now there’s this: those darn journalists are responsible for the problems at AIG (AIG).
We’ll borrow a line from our friend, Jeff Matthews: we are not making this up! [...]