http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/valuedriven/?section=money_valuedriven From CNN and Money magazine, CNNMoney.com combines business news and in-depth market analysis with practical advice and answers to personal finance questions. en-us © 2011 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:06:10 EDT 10 http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/valuedriven/?section=money_valuedriven http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/images/cnnmoney_logo_144x30.gif 144 30 From CNN and Money magazine, CNNMoney.com combines business news and in-depth market analysis with practical advice and answers to personal finance questions. http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/06/17/news/economy/medicare_fix_national_debt.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/06/17/news/economy/medicare_fix_national_debt.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven We can try to fix Medicare in two ways. One is a proven winner, the other a proven loser. The stakes could scarcely be higher -- and right now we're betting on the loser. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:05:09 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/05/12/news/mitch_daniels_2012_president_race.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/05/12/news/mitch_daniels_2012_president_race.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels still hasn't decided whether he's running for president, but he knows time is running out. "I have to make a decision within a few weeks," he said in an exclusive interview with Fortune. Fri, 13 May 2011 14:46:28 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/04/19/news/international/corruption_developing_economies.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/04/19/news/international/corruption_developing_economies.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven "We're thinking of pulling out of Brazil," the CEO of a large American corporation told me a week ago. The company has been operating there for a few years, doing several million dollars of business. The problem? A series of court judgments so inexplicable, and so crushingly expensive, that the CEO doubts his ability to manage the business. He doesn't see how the rulings can be honest -- even former President Luiz Lula da Silva called Brazil's judiciary a "black box" that's "untouchable" -- and if the system doesn't work, this CEO is bailing out. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:50:01 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/04/06/news/economy/income_inequality_fix.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/04/06/news/economy/income_inequality_fix.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven The hot topic of income equality gets especially emotional now, at tax time, and will get even more so this year, with the latest IRS data showing what happened in the recession. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:39:14 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/03/22/news/international/japan_innovation_entrepreneurs.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/03/22/news/international/japan_innovation_entrepreneurs.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven There is reason to believe that some kind of material good might eventually result from Japan's disaster, and it's confirmed by the way this thirty-something Japanese manager is responding to it: "I have been a 'risk-averse shosha-man [salary-man]' for 14 years, but I decided to quit my big company job to start my new business this June," he emailed six days after the earthquake. He had made the decision before the catastrophe (and doesn't want to be identified because he hasn't yet told his employer). "After the quake, however, what do you think happened to my mentality? Stronger desire to take the risk to SAVE the nation. Japanese people do a bigger job when they face crisis. My venture will surely start in June, despite the much worse economic situation for a new business to be started." Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:24:44 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/02/16/news/economy/new_american_exceptionalism.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/02/16/news/economy/new_american_exceptionalism.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven What makes America great? Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:25:52 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/01/04/news/economy/congress_2011_to_do_list.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/01/04/news/economy/congress_2011_to_do_list.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Dear 112th Congress: Congratulations and so forth, but we don't have time for pleasantries. I'm afraid I have bad news. Do you recall all those charts you've seen showing Medicare costs, Social Security costs, federal interest payments, and the national debt rising steadily for years and then suddenly taking off like a fighter jet? (If not, you can see them in the Treasury's latest Financial Report of the U.S. Government.) Well, the jet's barreling down the runway. Things have been getting fiscally bad for a long time. They're about to get much worse. A new Moody's report says that America could lose its triple-A credit rating on your watch. You've got to decide what to do about it. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:31:40 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/17/news/economy/bipartisan_debt_reduction_comission.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/17/news/economy/bipartisan_debt_reduction_comission.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven The Republicans' midterm surge has given the federal debt-reduction commission -- whose recommendations are due Dec. 1 -- a chance to stand up and be counted. The panel is bipartisan, but as long as Democrats were able to have their way ultimately in both houses of Congress, Republican members had little clout. Now that the balance of power has shifted, the ideas of the panel's deficit hawks, such as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), may get a bit more respect. Co-chairs Erskine Bowles (chief of staff for Bill Clinton) and Alan Simpson (former GOP senator from Wyoming) have offered a proposal, but it's only a draft. We'll know the commission blew its opportunity ... Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:43:10 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/01/news/economy/europe_america_spending_cuts.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/01/news/economy/europe_america_spending_cuts.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Everybody loves a fight. So I'm delighted that we're about to witness a heavyweight title bout between two of the most important ideas that can shape our material lives. The vital question: What's the best way to grow after a bad recession? We in the U.S. are betting heavily on one popular strategy, while Britain and the Euro zone are backing exactly the opposite approach. Rarely do we see such stark conflict in fundamental economic policies on a mammoth scale. The results of this natural experiment will be highly valuable because they'll teach us so much. But they will also be very bad news for one side or the other. Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:05:16 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/10/19/news/economy/business_paralysis.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/10/19/news/economy/business_paralysis.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Dick Kelly wishes he knew what his industry should do. "If we had a national policy and knew what the rules were, we could take action," says Kelly, CEO of Xcel Energy and chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, the association of shareholder-owned electric utilities. But Kelly's industry knows only that momentous changes in the federal laws governing it are probably on the way; what those changes might be, and when they might happen, managers have no idea. So they "are holding up decisions," Kelly says, on multibillion-dollar investments to convert old coal-fired power plants to natural gas. "Is there going to be a price on carbon?" he asks. "Will there be a timeline? Will we have to use a certain percentage of renewables?" No one knows, so nothing is happening. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:12:43 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/30/technology/transistors_technology.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/30/technology/transistors_technology.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven I have more transistors than neurons. So do you. That's something worth caring about, because it signals the advance of a weird new world that most of us aren't prepared for. Yet we'd better get ready, for the world of the Syfy channel is looking startlingly plausible. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:38:34 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/29/news/international/china_engineering_grads.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/29/news/international/china_engineering_grads.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs. It got 26,000 resumes. A fraction of those applicants were invited to interview. The final selectees, board member Andy Karsner tells me, "were top-of-their-class, English-speaking engineers. They're the best of the best." Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:43:01 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/28/news/companies/bp_board_to_blame.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/28/news/companies/bp_board_to_blame.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven BP's Gulf disaster is the board of directors' fault -- and not just in the sense that everything is ultimately the board's fault. This board has earned its blame in a very direct way. Yet you'd never suspect it from the directors' all-star credentials. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:34:18 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/14/news/companies/David_Calhoun_Nielsen.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/14/news/companies/David_Calhoun_Nielsen.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven What was he thinking? That's what many wondered when David Calhoun left a vice chairman's job at General Electric to run the Nielsen TV ratings company in 2006. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:33:53 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/30/news/companies/goldman_senate_testimony.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/30/news/companies/goldman_senate_testimony.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven I was not asked to testify at the recent hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, probably because I've never worked at Goldman Sachs or anywhere else on Wall Street, or had any involvement whatsoever in the market for synthetic CDOs, all-natural CDOs, or subprime mortgages of any kind. Nonetheless, had I been invited, I would have been pleased to respond to some of the Senators' remarks as follows: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:33:15 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/22/news/companies/executive_compensation.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/22/news/companies/executive_compensation.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven It's outrage season, formerly known as proxy season, when recession-shocked Americans get furious at the new list of insanely overpaid CEOs. The leader so far is Occidental Petroleum chief Ray Irani ($59 million), an excessive-pay hall-of-famer, but he may be overtaken by others as more proxies are filed. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:27:19 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/01/28/news/economy/business_populism.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/01/28/news/economy/business_populism.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven The top-grossing movie in the world, Avatar, is on screens now, and it clearly identifies the most evil force in the universe. It's business. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:12:21 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/01/08/news/economy/eva_momentum.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/01/08/news/economy/eva_momentum.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven In business as in life, be careful what you wish for. I know a company that wished for a better return on equity. What could be wrong with that? It paid its executives according to that measure, and man, did they deliver. In some years the firm had the best ROE in its industry. It was winning bigtime. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:07:10 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/09/news/economy/recession_leadership.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/09/news/economy/recession_leadership.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Businesspeople love to tell me their problems, and in the waning days of this recession they keep describing three of them more than any others. They have to do with vanishing leadership, changing corporate culture, and talent. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:50:33 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/10/27/news/economy/health_recession.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/10/27/news/economy/health_recession.fortune/index.htm?section=money_valuedriven Profits are down at Hillenbrand, America's largest maker of caskets. Admittedly, this fact sounds like the setup for a punch line, but the cause of the shortage in stiffs contains lessons for politicians and business leaders alike. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:03:17 EDT