Milt Moskowitz: Sanity in an Insane World from Paul Polman, the CEO who is Reshaping Unilever
Everyone complains about the short-term thinking that rules financial markets these days, but no one ever does much about it. Until now. Stepping up to the plate is Unilever, the storied Anglo-Dutch supplier of food, beverage and personal care products, sold under some 400 brand names including Lux, Dove, Hellmann’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Knorr, Bertolli and Vaseline. In a far-ranging interview with Adi Ignatius, editor in chief of the Harvard Business Review, CEO Paul Polman spelled out the steps Unilever is taking to become a sustainable corporation. I have seen many mission statements in my time. It’s easy to …
Why Holocaust Stories Still Have Meaning and Relevance
It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United States to Germany in May; now 89, he was implicated in the execution of 29,000 Jews. Two plays currently running in London deal with the collaboration of two German composers, Wilhelm Furtwangler and Richard Strauss, with the Nazis. And this year has seen the publication …
Bear Stearns Remembered
New Book Captures the Culture of a Wall Street High-Flier by Milt Moskowitz My stepson worked for 17 years at Bear Stearns before it disappeared last year into the bowels of JPMorgan Chase in the shotgun marriage arranged by the U.S. government. He is doing very well today, taking time off to consider his options. He misses the excitement of deal making. His major deals involved structured financial products collateralized by mortgage-backed securities, the root cause of the current upheaval in the economy. AIG was his top client. Bear Stearns was not a company that made it into the portfolios …
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