09 Jul 11 The Caffeinated Entrepreneur: A Fox Business Exclusive with Starbucks’ Howard Schultz
Time is an interesting thing. It can drag on slowly or slip through your fingers like mercury. 40 years may seem like a long time but when you’re working to build a business, suddenly you turn around and decades have passed.
Today Starbucks celebrated its 40th anniversary. The man who took it from [...]
09 Jul 11 The Art of the Tell: How to (and Sell) Your Story/Business/Your Ideas
In the world of business, it doesn’t matter how good your idea or product is. If you can’t seal the deal or sell the concept, you lose. In other words, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it.
HOW do you do that? HOW do you find the key to being a dynamic story-teller who can [...]
09 Jul 11 FoxBiz Exclusive w/ Noble Energy CEO: Let the Drilling Begin… Again.
Chuck Davidson has been waiting since June to do what his company does in the Gulf of Mexico: drill.
And now, he and his company can. Noble Energy [NBL] is the first deepwater driller to get a permit approved since the disastrous BP spill. Noble got the word yesterday after the bell that it was the [...]
09 Jul 11 GaGa Over Estee Lauder Stock
Since singer Lady Gaga signed on as a spokesperson for Estee Lauder company MAC’s AIDS charity just one year ago, the stock has jumped 57%.
One little $14.00 lipstick where 100 cents on the dollar go to MAC’s AIDS charity was enough to create a halo effect for the rest of the company’s products, according to [...]
09 Jul 11 Cutting the Fat While Counting the Beans: FBN EXCLUSIVE
Did you see Weight Watchers [WTW] stock yesterday?
It soared more than 40% after the company reported strong quarterly earnings including revenues jumping 15% but MY GOODNESS, a 44% gain? Lots of companies have that kind of quarter lately.
Perhaps it’s what’s on the horizon that thrilled investors so much. Weight Watchers is expanding overseas and doing [...]
09 Jul 11 Alcoa CEO to FoxBiz: The Economy and the Auto Industry are ‘Totally Coming Back’
Klaus Kleinfeld would know. The auto industry needs what his company makes. So do aerospace companies… and skyscraper builders. Alcoa, [AA] Aluminum Company of America, has been around since 1888, when aluminum was considered one of the rarest of metals and ran for about $545 a pound. (Napoleon III’s baby rattle was made of jewel-encrusted [...]
09 Jul 11 Working 12 Years For This Moment
We shouldn’t take companies like Medtronic [MDT] for granted. When they work 12 years straight to develop medical device that will only improve our lives, that’s impressive.
Today, in a Fox Business Exclusive, Medtronic Chairman and CEO William Hawkins held up a tiny device called the “Revo.”
It’s an MRI-safe pacemaker. 5 million Americans have pacemakers but because [...]
09 Jul 11 Car Czar to FoxBiz: "Oil At These Levels Won’t Spur Electric Car Sales"
Steven Rattner stopped by the Fox Business studios to talk about January auto sales and he started with a declaration that I, as a taxpayer who helped bail out General Motors and Chrysler, was happy to hear: the U.S. auto industry looks pretty good these days. Rattner was tapped in ‘08 by President Obama to [...]
09 Jul 11 Favorite Books, Most Admired leaders. The World According to My Davos Interviewees
I did something different this year at Davos. After nearly all my 35+ interviews I conducted over 3 days at the World Economic Forum this year, I asked just about every CEO, each leader, to name one of their favorite books along with the world or business leader whom they admire the very most.
I personally [...]
09 Jul 11 FoxBiz Davos: Obama and Donohue; the Chamber of Commerce Now Working Together
What started just months ago as a pretty tough fight has turned into a working relationship. Normally this wouldn’t get a lot of attention in the business world, except that this time it involves the President of the United States.
Tom Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is a Davos regular and [...]
