October 14, 2010—Foreign languages offer so many great daydreams... the fantasy of ordering lunch in fluent French at a small bistro in Dijon, perhaps, or imagining yourself sharing a laugh with the clerk who just sold you a ticket at the train station ...

September 16, 2010—What's it worth to Weatherford International (WFT) to keep its chief financial officer happy? About $7.25 million, from the looks of the 8-K it filed late yesterday. Weatherford's compensation consultants and attorneys have been having a busy couple years of it. Worried ...

August 20, 2010—Yesterday saw news of another big merger: the tie up between Intel (INTC) and McAfee (MFE). Between the news release and the conference call and various other merger documents, we counted 13 different filings yesterday. And that's just McAfee's filings. ...

June 10, 2010—We've written before about how lucrative it can be to serve as a corporate director (consider Western Union). Now Marsha C. Williams, chief financial officer of online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide (OWW) offers another window into the allure of board membership. Orbitz announced ...

April 12, 2010—This being proxy season, we're coming across a lot of disclosures that don't quite stand on their own, but which are interesting all the same. Here's a few recent disclosures that caught our attention: Taking a mulligan -- You can't blame Callaway Golf ...

April 6, 2010—Cliffhangers are always fun, although personally we like them better in the context of thrilling new novels than in SEC filings. Yet that's what we discovered when we dug into the proxy that Mariner Energy, Inc. (ME) filed late ...

March 30, 2010—According to one version of history, Queen Marie Antoinette, after being told that the hungry masses had no bread, replied, —Then let them eat brioche. Supposedly, according to that legend, Marie wasn—t being cruel — just clueless. We don—t know whether the ...

March 29, 2010—Last Friday, FTI Consulting, Inc. (FCN) filed an 8-K to disclose that Executive Vice President/CFO Jorge Celaya had resigned the day before, although —he will remain an employee through the close of business on March 30, 2010. David G. Bannister, FTI's ...

February 3, 2010—It may be winter in much of the United States, but recently one executive at The Children's Place (PLCE) received a bumper crop of reasons to stay with the company for another 14 months. The —carrots in question come in the form of impressive —special ...

February 2, 2010—When Microsoft (MSFT) announced on Nov. 24 that CFO Chris Liddell would be leaving the company by the end of the year, the release said that Liddell was "looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO". ...