Candidate, Former SEC Chairman Bash Water Deal that Flushed $68 Million Down the Sewer
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District got a pasting last Thursday over a botched bond deal that cost Cook County area taxpayers $68 million.
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District got a pasting last Thursday over a botched bond deal that cost Cook County area taxpayers $68 million.
Pete Altman | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
With more voices saying clearly that US Chamber of Commerce does not represent them, the Chamber's membership numbers are looking more and more questionable.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
Pete Altman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
The Chamber's tone-deaf response to the situation is contributing to reputation damage that is hurting the organization's credibility.
ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
As a "global sustainability movement" that'll include just about everyone - from educators to scientists to businesses to non-profits and little kids - Team Earth's first campaign centers on tackling deforestation.
Ed Martin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
TheWB.com's latest original series, The Lake, is a very effective centerpiece in a grand platform for advertisers: the show has a single sponsor.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours of employees' time agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung on walls. But this obsession with words belies one very large problem: There is almost no correlation between the words on the wall and the behavior of leaders.
Forbes | Klaus Kneale | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business
Would you recommend that a friend buy medicine from Johnson & Johnson? Insurance from AIG? Do you trust Google? These are the kinds of questions peop...
Huffington Post, EPA | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
The EPA released a list of the top 50 organizations buying renewable energy in partnership with them. One or two took me by surprise -- New York Unive...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.20.2009 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — Health care products maker Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday posted a 14 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, topping Wall Stre...
Paige Donner | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
Do we really know what we're buying when we buy "natural" and "certified organic" skincare products? Quite a few experts would insist that no, actually, we do NOT.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green
The need for the United States to lead by example through legislation has never been greater. Unfortunately, the need for change in Washington may have superseded that consideration.
New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS and ALEX BERENSON | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
For years, Johnson & Johnson obscured evidence that its popular Ortho Evra birth control patch delivered much more estrogen than standard birth contro...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
In their newest corporate parody, the folks over at Wallstrip take to the streets to find out what Johnson & Johnson product consumers are most, um, i...
Los Angeles Times | Alana Semuels | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The next battle in the Splenda wars is about to begin. A hearing in a false-advertising lawsuit against the company that makes the sweetener is sched...
Reuters | Debra Sherman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Johnson & Johnson Wyeth and other makers of infants' nonprescription cough and cold products are recalling certain medicines in the United States beca...
David Ormsby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago