The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition


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“[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.”–USA Today, on the 2001 edition Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans to find the best business stories from the last twelve months. Among those selected: Michael Lewis on teenage stock trader Jonathan Lebed, from The New York Times Magazine; James B. Stewart on the irrepressible Michael Milken, from The New Yorker; and many others from the pages of The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Rocky Mountain News, and Wired. The second annual edition continues the excellence and comprehensive range of this fascinating anthology series.




The Best Business Stories of the Year


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Presents the year's most noteworthy and influential articles on diverse aspects of the business world.




Hollywood Ending


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A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein—how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood and media power game for The New Yorker for three decades Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote an iconic New Yorker profile of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was then at the height of his powers. The profile made waves for exposing how volatile, even violent, Weinstein was to his employees and collaborators. But there was a much darker story that was just out of reach: rumors had long swirled that Weinstein was a sexual predator. Auletta confronted Weinstein, who denied the claims. Since no one was willing to go on the record, Auletta and the magazine concluded they couldn’t close the case. Years later, he was able to share his reporting notes and knowledge with Ronan Farrow; he cheered as Farrow, and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, finally revealed the truth. Still, the story continued to nag him. The trail of assaults and cover-ups had been exposed, but the larger questions remained: What was at the root of Weinstein’s monstrousness? How, and why, was it never checked? Why the silence? How does a man run the day-to-day operations of a company with hundreds of employees and revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and at the same time live a shadow life of sexual predation without ever being caught? How much is this a story about Harvey Weinstein, and how much is this a story about Hollywood and power? In pursuit of the answers, Auletta digs into Weinstein’s life, searching for the mysteries beneath a film career unparalleled for its extraordinary talent and creative success, which combined with a personal brutality and viciousness to leave a trail of ruined lives in its wake. Hollywood Ending is more than a prosecutor’s litany; it is an unflinching examination of Weinstein's life and career, embedding his crimes in the context of the movie business, in his failures and the successes that led to enormous power. Film stars, Miramax employees and board members, old friends and family, and even the person who knew him best—Harvey’s brother, Bob—all talked to Auletta at length. Weinstein himself also responded to Auletta’s questions from prison. The result is not simply the portrait of a predator but of the power that allowed Weinstein to operate with such impunity for so many years, the spiderweb in which his victims found themselves trapped.




Show Me the Money


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Show Me the Money is the definitive business journalism textbook that offers hands-on advice and examples on doing the job of a business journalist. Author Chris Roush draws on his experience as a business journalist and educator to explain how to cover businesses, industries and the economy, as well as where to find sources of information for stories. He demonstrates clearly how reporters take financial information and turn it into relevant facts that explain a topic to readers. This definitive business journalism text: provides real-world examples of business articles presents complex topics in a form easy to read and understand offers examples of where to find news stories in SEC filings gives comprehensive explanations and reviews of corporate financial, balance sheet, and cash flow statements provides tips on finding sources, such as corporate investors and hard-to-find corporate documents gives a comprehensive listing of websites for business journalists to use. Key updates for the second edition include: tips from professional business journalists provided throughout the text new chapters on personal finance reporting and covering specific business beats expanded coverage of real estate reporting updates throughout to reflect significant changes in SEC, finance, and economics industries. With numerous examples of documents and stories in the text, Show Me the Money is an essential guide for students and practitioners doing business journalism.




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The Best Business Stories of the Year


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“Spend! Spend! Spend! Where Did Tyco’s Money Go?” by James B. Stewart, fromThe New Yorker “The Decline and Fall of the Cult of Equity” by Andrew Hill, from theFinancial Times “The Death of One American Dream” by Shirleen Holt, fromThe Seattle Times “Shattered Dynasty” by Suzanna Andrews, fromVanity Fair “For Richer” by Paul Krugman, fromThe New York Times Magazine “In Defense of the Boom” by Michael Lewis, fromThe New York Times Magazine “The Telecom Boom’s Dark Remnants” by Michael Guillen, fromThe Oregonian “Rich Man, Poor Company” by Chris O’Brien and Jack Davis, from theSan Jose Mercury News “Deciding on Executive Pay: Lack of Independence Seen” by Diana B. Henriques and Geraldine Fabrikant, fromThe New York Times “How It All Fell Apart” by Johnnie L. Roberts, fromNewsweek “Planet Starbucks” by Stanley Holmes, Drake Bennett, Kate Carlisle, and Chester Dawson, fromBusinessWeek “The Google Gods” by Stefanie Olsen, from CNET News.com “Up Against Wal-Mart” by Karen Olsson, fromMother Jones “Is Our Children Learning?” by Julie Landry, fromRed Herring “The Investigation: How Eliot Spitzer Humbled Wall Street” by John Cassidy, fromThe New Yorker “Inside the Rock” by Loch Adamson, fromWorth “Unfair Disclosure” by Bob Drummond, fromBloomberg Markets “Inside McKinsey” by John A. Byrne, fromBusinessWeek “Alliance Capital’s Bad Bets” by Edward Robinson, fromBloomberg Markets “Where the Money’s Really Made” by Andy Serwer, fromFortune “The Economics of Empire” by William Finnegan, fromHarper’s Magazine “The Debt Bomb” by Jonathan R. Laing, fromBarron’s “Big Bucks, Small Town, Bond Haven” by Noelle Haner-Dorr, fromOrlando Business Journal “Flight into the Red” by Steve Huettel, from theSt. Petersburg Times “Full Price: A Young Woman, an Appendectomy, and a $19,000 Debt” by Lucette Lagnado, fromThe Wall Street Journal “The Fall of Andersen” by Delroy Alexander, Greg Burns, Robert Manor, Flynn McRoberts and E. A. Torriero, from theChicago Tribune “Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits” by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore, fromHarvard Business Review “Troubling Options—Inside the Tough Call at Sprint” by Rebecca Blumenstein and Carol Hymowitz, fromThe Wall Street Journal “Wild, Wild Qwest” by Lou Kilzer, David Milstead, and Jeff Smith, from theRocky Mountain News “The New Face of Shoplifting” by Joanne Kimberlin, fromThe Virginian-Pilot “The Year the Music Dies” by Charles C. Mann, fromWired “Big Battle for a Silly Old Bear: Who Owns the Honey Pot?” by Meg James, from theLos Angeles Times “The Monopolist” by Connie Bruck, fromThe New Yorker “From Heroes to Goats . . . and Back Ag







25 Business Stories


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This inspiring collection of 25 true business stories is especially written for English language learners. From spectacular successes (Starbucks and Apple's iPod) to colossal failures (New Coke and Enron), each entrepreneurial saga is followed by reading comprehension exercises designed to build vocabulary skills and to help learners identify English sentence patterns, idioms, and commonly used phrases. Both vocabulary and phrase indexes are included.




Library Journal


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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.




Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit


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Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit is about capital and about the economic system that bears its name. In this book, Levine argues that our pursuit of ever-more wealth in the form of capital expresses our dissatisfaction with the world we live in, with what we have and what we don't have. Capital embodies our hope for something different. Because capital embodies this hope, it has become desire's object. In his study of capitalism, Levine explores the meaning of capital as a social reality connected to fundamental human aspirations. The link between capital and the pursuit of a hoped-for state is especially important in light of the stubborn insistence on the part of its critics that capitalism exists to serve the material interests of those whose vocation is to own capital. This misunderstanding ignores what is essential about capital, which is its link not to interests but to hope, especially the hope that by accumulating capital the individual can achieve an attachment to the good. It is this hope that blocks tolerance of any notion that there is something unfair in the capitalist's acquisition of wealth and that fairness can be achieved through its redistribution to others. It is also this hope that animates the capitalist system as a whole. And in that sense, this hope is the spirit of capitalism. To develop this theme, Levine calls on the ideas and writings of major theorists involved with understanding modernity and capitalism: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Joseph Schumpeter.