Archive for the 'consulting' Tag

Mining has always been a dangerous job. But mining company executives have always had it easy compared to the workers who actually extract precious gems, metals, and minerals from under the Earth’s crust, a point underscored in the 8-K that silver and gold producer Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. (CDE) filed at 4:35 p.m. last Friday. [...]

There are many great ways to observe July 4th, but regardless of how any of us marked the holiday, we bet that Michael S. Taff’s party had more pizzazz.  In addition to celebrating the nation’s independence, he was very likely celebrating his own. Taff, 49, the departing Senior Vice President and CFO at The Babcock & [...]

A takeover fight always makes for good sport, and so we were as excited as anyone* by the announcement yesterday that Williams Cos. (WMB) was making a $4.9 billion all-cash hostile bid for Southern Union (SUG), the pipeline company that announced its betrothal just last week to Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) in a $4.2 billion equity [...]

In 2007, when Crain’s named Michelle Felman as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in NYC business,” she attributed much of her success to her intuition, explaining in this article: “You understand other people’s motivations, and you can respond to them in a way that gets both sides what they want.” If the proof is [...]