Private Equity is the Answer at Hewlett-Packard

THINKING THINGS OVER                                                   Volume I, Number 11     100111 By John L. Chapman, Ph.D.                                                                                                                                                  Washington, D.C. The Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) is an iconic brand name in American business history, and one of the 20th century’s greatest business success stories.  From humble beginnings in a one car garage in Palo Alto, California in 1939, it has grown to number nine .. read more

Ritholz on Compensation

Barry Ritholz has a new book out called Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy which he excerpts today on his blog, The Big Picture: “We’ve come a long way from the days when the man atop the organizational chart made 40 times what the person on the .. read more