Quartz
In March 2013, I began contributing to Quartz, the online business-news outlet then published by the owners of The Atlantic magazine. I was a fan of Quartz since it launched. For years, publications I’ worked at talked about being more global, less provincially American, with varying degrees of success. I think Quartz came closest to the kind of international world-view that corporate executives are taking (and have to take, given the globalization of markets).
For me, it was a great opportunity to write about topics that fascinate me, for an influential audience, while simultaneously pushing into areas I knew less about, including disclosure and governance issues beyond the U.S.
Selected posts
- Why Michael Dell wants to change the buyout voting rules so badly, in one chart | July 31, 2013
- Jeff Bezos gets a $50 million bonus for buying the Washington Post | August 6, 2013
- When tech companies release earnings, people like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates can make or lose billions in a day | July 29, 2014
- Good luck figuring out Apple’s litigation risk | with Gina Chon, July 10, 2013
- Zynga has given its new CEO big incentives to sell the company | July 5, 2013
- Apathetic shareholders can be as much of a problem for companies as hostile ones | June 20, 2013
- This company successfully thwarted investors’ efforts to rein in executive pay | June 14, 2013
- Iran can’t shop at Costco any more | June 12, 2013
- Why Wal-Mart’s $15 billion stock buyback may not be as great as it seems | with Gina Chon, June 7, 2013
- Some companies pay executives extra to fly on their own private jets for vacation | June 7, 2013
- Apple’s $1.1 billion worth of tax breaks it doesn’t expect to get away with | May 23, 2013
- Here is how four companies are ignoring their shareholders’ votes | May 21, 2013
- That sound you heard yesterday was companies dumping 41,565 pages on the SEC’s doorstep | May 11, 2013
- McDonald’s to Costco: You’re too cheap for us | April 25, 2013
- Rejigging America’s GDP calculation requires dubious math, but it always did | April 24, 2013
- Monsanto seems to think the “Monsanto Protection Act” it lobbied for hardly matters | April 15, 2013
- Why American Airlines’ CEO probably won’t cry over the $20 million a judge denied him | April 12, 2013
- Jamie Dimon’s dad got a raise (a big one) | April 11, 2013
- How much should you worry about North Korea? The SEC has some numbers on that | April 5, 2013
- When a 20% executive pay cut isn’t as painful as people might think | March 31, 2013
- US-listed companies doing business in Iran: $540 million in revenue and counting | March 28, 2013
- Giving a CEO too many stock options can make a company perform worse | March 21, 2013
- In an era of global corporations, the Swiss pay referendum may matter more than you think | March 12, 2013