Ken Thompson

Bad Management: Why Managers Make Poor Decisions

Sydney Finkelstein's new book Think Again identifies four biases that lead otherwise savvy managers astray. Cases in point: Dick Fuld, and Stanley O'Neal Why do smart, powerful executives make really dumb decisions? But while...

right out of Bert & I....

I seem to remember an error message, and I'm not sure whether it was on a DPS-8/70 or a DPS-90, but it was something like "you can't get here" As VB and ActiveX were already mentioned, and parsers in fact are pretty close in...

Wachovia exec plans to stay in Charlotte

Wachovia Corp. executive David Carroll plans to remain in Charlotte after joining the top management ranks of Wells Fargo & Co. later this year, a Wells spokeswoman said Friday.Wells Fargo announced internally Thursday that...

Wachovia gets just one top spot at Wells Fargo

Wachovia will get just one spot on Wells Fargo's 12-member top management team when the two companies combine later this year.David Carroll, head of Wachovia's capital management group, will be responsible for businesses...

MCC grad to give lecture on slave-to-scholar

MANATEE — Manatee Community College alumna Michelle Valerie Ronnick will lecture on former slave turned scholar William Sanders Scarborough at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 25 and 1 p.m. Nov. 26 at Family Heritage House Museum, 5840 26th St....

Wachovia had sought FDIC help, was told no

Before being forced to sell itself in late September, Wachovia proposed a plan to stay independent with assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. but was rebuffed, according to a securities filing Friday.At 12:30 a.m....

More On Merrill--"Retention Package Is A Joke" (at CNBC)

I fought and won an arbitration after my manager went after me and lied and forged documents to try and smear me." I mean, before we go there, let's consider what Merrill Lynch is CURRENTLY offering itself to lure advisors from...

ACM'S TURING AWARD PRIZE RAISED TO $250,000

Google Joins Intel to Provide Increased Funding for Most Significant Award in Computing Following the Switch-On of the Turing-Bombe Rebuild by the Duke of Kent this Summer and also the unveiling of the exquisite Alan Turing...

ExaChess Lite 4.0b6 - Play Chess Against The Computer

ExaChess Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database. ExaChess Lite allows up to 256 games per file, reading and storing Chessbase (CBF) and PGN formats among others, and can be used with a variety of...