Virtually all CEOs believe that they are the best stewards of investors' money. Not all of them are. Over the long run, even insanely great companies slow down -- and the long term aging process isn't always pretty.
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Chief executives tend be optimistic about high they can lift their companies.
Why Pay Dividends When You Know You’re the Best CEO on Earth?
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Mel Karmazin, chief executive officer of Sirius XM Radio Inc.
The Most Valuable Face in Radio
How much is a superstar worth? Two Bloomberg stories today explore that question, in different ways. The first — and this is new territory for The Market Now — is about Broadway, where Al Pacino starts a ten-week run in David Mamet’s...
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What If the Wolf Is Already Inside the Door?
The great food writer M.F.K. Fisher once wrote a book titled “How To Cook a Wolf.” One caveat it might have had: when the wolf invites you to dinner, it’s not usually the wolf that gets eaten. A story today...
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