Description: When Disney (DIS) and other media stocks crumbled last month, the home of Star Wars seized on the opportunity to buy back its stock at what looked like dirt cheap prices. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Sep 10, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/11/investing/disney-bought-stock-media-espn-star-wars/index.html?iid=surge-stack-dom Questions for discussion: Explain Disney’s stock surge over recent years? Does Disney… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Management Issues
The World’s Highest-Paid TV Actresses 2015: Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting And Sofia Vergara Lead With $28.5 Million
Description: While we are busy being becoming immersed in the daily lives, emotions and relationships of their on-screen personas—Sofia as Gloria, Robin as Claire, and Julianna, who for so long was Nurse Carol, slowly shifted to Alicia—TV’s top actresses are busy making money: Sofia Vergara and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting more than any others, banking $28.5 million apiece pretax between June… Read more »
Toyota to Finance $50 Million ‘Intelligent’ Car Project
Description: The Toyota Motor Corporation announced on Friday an ambitious $50 million robotics and artificial intelligence research effort, in collaboration with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to develop “intelligent” rather than self-driving cars. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Sep 04, 2015 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/science/toyota-artificial-intelligence-car-stanford-mit.html Questions for discussion: Do you think the company is making a… Read more »
Tracking Your Racing Heart at Work…
Description: Across the U.K., hedge funds, banks, call centers and consultancies are installing tracking systems to link biosensing wearable devices with analytics tools so bosses can track heart rates. Bloomberg’s Olivia Solon tells Manus Cranny and Francine Lacqua more on “The Pulse.” Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: August 17, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-08-17/tracking-your-racing-heart-at-work- Questions for… Read more »
Bring Your Kid and Nanny: KKR Adds Perk to Keep Talent
Description: KKR & Co. extended the company’s leave time for new parents and added a benefit allowing them to bring a new child and caregiver on business trips, paid for by KKR. Bloomberg’s Devin Banerjee reports on “Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: August 13, 2015 Link: http://bloom.bg/1N5GH2v Questions for Discussions:… Read more »
These U.S. CEOs Make a Lot More Money Than Their Workers
Description: Below are 11 companies, including McDonald’s, that will probably report wide gaps between CEO and worker pay under new regulatory requirements Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: August 13, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/these-ceos-make-the-most-money-compared-with-their-workers Questions for Discussions: What does this report say about the range of pay at these organizations? Is there a problem and if so… Read more »
A World Without Work
Description: For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing? Source: TheAtlantic.com Date: July/August Issue, 2015 Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/ Questions for discussion: What does the article say about the changes taking place in the workplace? Do you agree with the predictions? What… Read more »
Is this Pandora’s Last Dance?
Description: Wall Street seems to think that Apple Music will hurt Pandora. But it’s worth nothing that Pandora has survived threats from Apple before. Remember Ping? Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: June 10, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2015/06/10/apple-music-pandora-stock.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: How is the Apple business model a threat to Pandora? What do you think will… Read more »
Why America’s $2.9 Trillion Medical Industry Still Runs on Paper Payments
Description: Paying medical bills is as inefficient as it was 15 years ago, and the cost is high Source: Bloomberg.com Date: June 10, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-10/why-america-s-2-9-trillion-medical-industry-still-runs-on-paper-payments Questions for Discussions: Why is management of the medical industry slow to adopt electronic payment technologies? How can this problem be solved by way of incentives or penalties?
Apple’s stock in a funk. Will WWDC news change that?
Description: Shares of Apple have barely budged since its last earnings report. Could news about iOS 9, updates to Mac software and an Apple Music subscription service get Apple back on track to a $1 trillion market cap? Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: June 04, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2015/06/04/apple-wwdc-buzz.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why do you… Read more »
