
Morgan Stanley's Newly Named CFO Recalls the Unfolding Crisis, and Sees Progress Ruth Porat, whose ascent next month to the role of chief financial officer at Morgan Stanley was announced Tuesday, directed the firm's financial-institutions investment-banking business as the financial crisis ...

Are TARP Repayments a Sign of Financial Health -- or a Way Around Pay Constraints? In just four months, government loss estimates for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) fund have plummeted $200 billion, from about $342 billion to $141 billion...

Fritz Henderson's Resignation Shows the Board Is Eager to Change GM GM's troubles have been a frequent subject on KnowledgeToday and in Knowledge@Wharton articles....

Is the Fuss over Cyber Monday and Black Friday Misplaced? Wharton marketing professor Peter S. Fader acknowledges that retailers need to manufacture special events now and then to drum up sales...

Dubai's Debt Problem Underscores New Worries over Government Debt in General Near-term concern about which banks were holding Dubai's debt was probably the biggest factor in the swoon of global markets last week. Bu...

As Lending Heats Up Chinese Real Estate, Bankers Receive Stern Warning from Government Last week, KnowledgeToday noted growing concern about a real estate bubble forming in China, where government figures show housing prices increased in October by 3.9% in 70 big and medium-sized cities. In...

New Violence Underscores India's Troubled Labor-Management Relationships As India Knowledge@Wharton reported in a July article, titled Labor Pains: Is Industrial Unrest Growing or Slowing?, the emerging economy's economic slowdown and outdated labor laws have led to disturbing incidents of violence...

Stimulus Lending Fuels a Real Estate Bubble in China The volume of lending by China's banks appears to be pumping up a real estate bubble that could have global repercussions. Time magazine reports buyers waiting on line to snap up new condos in Shanghai and Wuhan....

A Comprehensive Study Finds No Savings from Electronic Medical Records Efforts In June, Wharton health care management professor Mark V...

A Car Company's Infamous Bureaucracy Is Being Dismantled by New Leadership When General Motors said last month that it would discontinue its formerly innovative Saturn line, many a finger was pointed at the company's moribund bureaucracy. "Saturn fell prey to the culture of GM.......

Fox Pulls the Plug on Josh Whedon's 'Dollhouse,' but Viral Marketing Teases Fans Chalk up another short-lived series on the Fox Network for envelope-pushing producer and writer Joss Whedon, whose ideas for monetizing Internet programming were featured in a Knowledge@Wharton interview in February...

Motorola Is Said to be Considering an Exit from the Quickly Evolving Set-top Box Business At a time when set-top boxes are reaching beyond their traditional role as the final gatekeeper for premium channels on cable-television systems, Motorola is reported by The Wall Street Journal to be looking ...








