Archive for the 'CEOs' Tag

Lots of CEOs of publicly traded companies like to think of themselves as celebrities, but we can’t think of many other than John F. Crowley that can actually say that their life story led to a movie starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser. The movie, Extraordinary Measures, was based on a book about Crowley, The Cure, [...]

Best of lists are normally the type of thing that you read in December or early January, when the news cycle is slow. That’s when we normally run our Worst Footnote of the Year contest. But some things are on a different schedule, like proxies, for example. And now that practically all of the 2011 [...]

Proxy season is pretty much over for the big companies that follow a calendar year, but “pretty much” leaves room for some interesting exceptions. Last week, it was McKesson (MCK), the medical distribution and IT giant, and CA Inc. (CA), the information technology company formerly known as Computer Associates. Both of them sent the SEC [...]

You’ve no doubt heard by now of Texas Instruments’ (TXN)  $6.5 billion deal for National Semiconductor (NSM), that was announced after the market closed yesterday. As the WSJ notes in this piece, the $25 a share price represents a 78% premium over National Semi’s closing price yesterday. Given that hefty premium, we decided to take [...]