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British Business School Grad Nails The Highest Starting Salary Ever

For a new Harvard Business School MBA, the median starting salary is $120,000. Top business schools grads have some very lucrative options available, including private equity and fast track corporate...

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Ben Bernanke 'Delivers Nothing New'

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking at the Economic Club of New York today.In the Q&A, he noted that the Fed was looking "very carefully" at applying quantitative thresholds (e.g. an...

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Ben Bernanke Reveals The One Thing That Could Really Get The Economy Going Again

The text of Ben Bernanke's speech to the Economic Club of NY has just come out, and at first blush it's not a major game changer. He doesn't, for example, go into specifics on new policy (such as what...

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SALLIE KRAWCHECK: Here's What I Learned The First Time I Was Fired

This post originally appeared on LinkedIn.  Follow Sallie on LinkedIn.There are some things worth being fired over. Sometimes your personal values don’t mesh with the company’s (regardless of what the...

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Markets Are Crumbling

Interesting. In the middle of Ben Bernanke's speech (where he really hasn't broken any news) the market is crumbling.Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this...

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Whistleblower Files Lawsuit Alleging Major Corruption And Sexual Misconduct...

Last week, David Weber, a former chief inspector general for the SEC, filed a lawsuit against former employer.He alleges that several individuals in the SEC retaliated against him for blowing the...

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Notorious Manhattan Madam Case Ends With a Whimper

Anna Gristina — known in the press as the “Soccer Mom Madam” and the “Manhattan Madam” — just received a sentence of six months Tuesday for her role in leading a multi-million dollar prostitution ring...

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The 45 Stocks Hedge Fund Managers Love The Most

Factset has just released its quarterly report on the stock holdings of the nation's 50 largest hedge funds.On the whole, the 50 largest hedge funds increased their exposure to stocks by 3 percent,...

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Ben Bernanke's Excellent Speech On The State Of The Economy

Ben Bernanke just wrapped up his speech at The Economic Club of NY.The general reaction to it? Meh. Eric Green of TD Securities blasted an email to clients titled Bernanke Delivers Nothing New.The...

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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Joins Other Amazing Speakers At Our Ignition...

Our annual IGNITION: Future of Digital conference is next week, at the Time Warner Center in New York City.We have another amazing lineup this year, so we hope we'll see you there.If you can't make it...

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Where Was HP’s Management When The Autonomy Deal Was Being Done?

When a company reports a loss per share of $6.41, or roughly half its own stock price, thanks in good measure to the write-off of most of the book value of a $10 billion acquisition that closed barely...

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And Now Markets Are Coming Back

Markets plunged after Ben Bernanke spoke, which was odd because he didn't say anything new.It seems traders and investors have realized this.  Markets have already recovered half of their losses.Please...

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GOLDMAN: Obama Will End Up Extracting A Little More Than $800 Billion From...

Goldman Sachs analyst Alec Phillips just sent out a great chart showing what the guts of President Obama's tax on the wealthy looks like, and how it will raise $1.6 trillion.Take a look:Of course,...

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CHART OF THE DAY: Tax Hikes Won't Cause Stocks To Fall

As the "fiscal cliff" approaches, investors are beginning to freak out about the impact of higher taxes on stock market returns.  This particularly concerns the impact of capital gains and dividend...

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Teavana Fires Back At The Short-Seller That Says Its Tea Is Contaminated With...

A recent research report claims that teas from Teavana —the retailer Starbucks just bought for $260 million in cash — contain pesticides and violate U.S. food pesticide standards.Now, Teavana has shot...

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5 Essays That Got People Into Harvard Business School — And Why They Worked

With an acceptance rate of only 11 percent, even people with the most impeccable credentials and test scores routinely get turned down from Harvard Business School.What sets people apart are their...

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STOCKS MAKE A COMEBACK: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ, HPQ, BBY)

Markets got slammed mid-day after Ben Bernanke spoke.  But they erased most of their losses.  However, a couple of big stocks still got punished today.First the scoreboard:Dow: 12,789, -6.6, -0.1...

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Sorry, But You Have To Look At This Chart Of Housing Starts Going Totally...

One more time. Let's just gawk at the crazy acceleration of housing starts this month.Remember, this is the annualized pace of new homes being built. We were once told a story about how there were so...

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REPORT: Hedge Fund Billionaire Steve Cohen Is 'Portfolio Manager A' In The...

SAC Capital's billionaire owner Steve Cohn has been implicated in the $275 million insider trading case that hit Wall Street this afternoon, the WSJ reports.Here's how the scheme (allegedly)...

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John Deere Explains What's Happening To The Global Agriculture Market (DE)

South America will solidify itself as the world's global farming powerhouse in 2013, according to John Deere's latest presentation on global agriculture.The company forecasts a jump in agriculture...

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