November 8, 2010—There may be no second acts in American politics, but sometimes it seems like corporate executives can count on one. As the third man to run American International Group (AIG) in its nine-decade history, Martin J. Sullivan oversaw its disastrous run ...

November 5, 2010—Back in early August, we footnoted the decision by Hyatt Hotels (H) to abandon the Hyatt Regency Princeton after falling behind on the mortgage. At the time, we contrasted the corporate decision to abandon a property it no longer wanted ...

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August 6, 2010—If you're in Princeton, New Jersey, anytime soon, swing by the Hyatt Regency Princeton. With the Hyatt Hotels (H) quarterly report filed yesterday, it has become a symbol of the financial crisis -- and of a some stark contrasts between ...

August 2, 2010—Lawyers are a cautious bunch, but when it comes to the corporate sort, they also have a reputation for a certain dullness: They're not exactly supposed to get carried away with flights of fancy, especially not when drafting public disclosures. So we were a little ...

July 15, 2010—The long-anticipated Wall Street reform bill just passed the U.S. Senate and is heading for President Obama's desk. It still has a number of the investor-protection and corporate-governance provisions we mentioned before, but we were recently reminded that even some of ...