A few footnotes to the Merrill Lynch / O’Neal story…and CEO compensation in general…   As founders and the founding families of today’s giant, modern corporations — the Merrills of Merrill Lynch,... [more]

Attention corporate executives — don’t shrug this off. XBRL is going to revolutionize accounting and corporate [financial] reporting.   Standard dictionaries (“taxonomies”) are in development by a numb... [more]

So you take years, decades, centuries perhaps to build the brand, win the loyalty of customers, fine-tune the marketing and promotion, establish your distribution channels, and constantly perfect your business model.   Then c... [more]