August 9, 2012—Several months ago, there was a big dust-up here in New York over a question on a standardized English test for eighth graders about a talking pineapple. Pretty much every major media outlet (and many minor ones) covered the controversy over the ...

August 7, 2012—There's no question that top executives don't retire like the rest of us: See Sam Palmisano's nine-figure retirement package from IBM (IBM), or more recently, the $89,000-a-month "allowance" for former General Electric (GE) Vice Chairman John Krenicki, which Michelle

August 6, 2012—Several years ago, The Smoking Gun, which focuses on different types of documents, but was something of a model for footnoted, started delving into the quirky things that celebrities asked for while on the road. We thought about that as ...

August 1, 2012—Back on July 20, as part of a series of changes in its Energy business, General Electric (GE) mentioned -- almost in passing -- that veteran executive and GE Vice Chairman John Krenicki would be leaving the company at the end ...

July 25, 2012—Thinking about retiring any time soon? Well, we don't want to discourage you, but the odds are that Gary Ervin just got a better deal than you — and especially we, for that matter — ever will. Ervin, who is ...

July 23, 2012—There have been some big transitions at Gardner Denver, Inc. (GDI) recently, the 153-year-old company that makes industrial pumps, compressors, blowers, and more. The news that its president and CEO, Barry L. Pennypacker, suddenly resigned on July 13 got some attention, ...

July 19, 2012—When ambitious B-school students start classes in a few weeks, we bet that few of them will arrive harboring dreams of running a chain of hair salons. But - based on the 8-K that Regis Corp. (RGS) filed ...

July 18, 2012—Apologies to The Smiths, whose song, "Some Girls are Bigger than Others", came to mind when we started to contemplate a number of CFOs changing jobs this week. Here I risk dating myself a bit, but as a fan of The ...

July 17, 2012—Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article, "Finding a Cure for CEO-itis," that we suspect was widely read and enjoyed, except perhaps by the CEO set. It touched on the same themes that we often write about after finding ...

July 10, 2012—We're inky wretches here at footnoted, and so we pay pretty close attention to what's going on in the news business -- it hasn't been pretty. David Carr, over at The New York Times, is one of the industry's best chroniclers.