Stories

 

Trend-setting stories from the dawn of the commercial Internet and the modern Pacific Rim economy to today's global and Web 2.0 world. Available upon request: Investigative profiles of business and political figures. Personal essays on topics from house-hunting to alligator-hunting. Pre-Internet stories and columns not online.

 

  

EXECS & ENTREPRENEURS

  

CoolGlobalBiz, "Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett on Global Innovation." 

USA Today, "Outdoor Channel CEO Lives His Work."

USA Today, "Tony Hawk Leaps to Top of Financial Empire." 

USA Today, "Entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki Doesn't Accept Failure."

USA Today, "Chevron CEO Doesn't See Oil Crisis Looming."

USA Today, "Homeboy Industries Goes Gang-Busters." 

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Personal Finance Guru (Suze) Orman is Keepin' It Real . . . "

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "The Man on the Street: Jim Cramer . . . ."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Fists of Finance" (Martial arts industry & youngbloods studying street combat.)

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Broker Who Preaches the Gospel of Service" (profile of financial executive Charles Schwab).

USA Today, "Private Equity Says 'Hola' to Latino Firms."

USA Today, "Gymboree's Barnes Finds New Life, Business in Yoga."

USA Today, "Chef Sang Yoon Makes His Mark with Beer and Burgers."

CoolGlobalBiz, "A Visit to Hoplon Infotainment, Maker of Online Video Game Taikodom, in Brazil."

USA Today, "Venture Capital Firm Transforms Global Startups" (Draper Fisher Jurvetson)

 

  

GLOBAL BIZ & ECONOMY

 

CoolGlobalBiz, "Stiglitz, Malthus and Me, Or Why the Stuff on This Blog is Free."

CoolGlobalBiz and VentureBeat, "Global Business Diversity Goes Beyond 'Political Correctness' "

USA Today and ABC News, "U.S. Companies Carry Torch for Olympics." 

USA Today, "Small U.S. Firms Make Big Global Sales."

USA Today, "U.S. Considers Costly Switch to International Accounting Rules."

USA Today, "Corporate Governance Gets More Transparent Worldwide."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Rush to the Rim" (Early U.S. financing of Asia's economies). 

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "State-owned Businesses Move to Quicker, Private Pace" (Rare early glimpse at China state-run companies.)

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Hong Kong Changing of the Guard: Global Audience to Watch as China Regains Sovereignty."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Capitalist Fever Gripping Shanghai."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "The Tigers Modernize: Construction Cranes Fill the Skylines of the Pacific Rim."

San Francisco Examiner (SFGate.com), "Taiwan Will Rise From the Ashes: Bent on Progress, It Will Soon Rebuild." and "(Taiwan's) elders fear the youthful 'new-new' people have lost their way."

USA Today, "Immigrants from India Spread Success to Homeland."

USA Today, "Cuba's Economic Fate Up in the Air."

Venture Beat & CoolGlobalBiz, "Indian Innovation Thriving Despite Downturn."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Technology and Innovation in Cross-Cultural Brazil: Prof. Marcelo Zuffo of the University of Sao Paulo."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Western Union's Global Branding Campaign Says Yes! Si! हाँ! Oo! 唉! to Immigrant Consumers."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Will Russia be the Next Hotbed of Innovation?"

 

  

CROSS-CULTURAL TOPICS

  

USA Today, "Stereotypes Get Shot Down: Cultural Pioneers Challenge Convention." and "Creating Their Own Identity" (sidebar to main story).

CoolGlobalBiz, "Lady Gaga: Avatar of Culture and Commerce?"

CoolGlobalBiz, "Paris Street Artist & Photographer JR Creates Global Public Art on Soulful, Human Scale."

Los Angeles Times, "Word Warriors" (Literary feud between author Maxine Hong Kingston and playwright Frank Chin.)

USA Today, "More Marketing Aimed at Gay Consumers."

Los Angeles Times, "Asian Movies Take Flight."

Los Angeles Times, "Hot Properties: More Asian Americans Suddenly Are Winning Mainstream Literary Acclaim."

Los Angeles Times, N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author.

USA Today, "Diversity in the News Media Could Falter."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Michael Jackson: Media Freak Show, or Global and Cultural Revolutionary?"

CoolGlobalBiz, "The Quest for MTV America's Best Dance Crew, Hip Hop Culture and the Urban Market."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood and Media Images."

CoolGlobalBiz, "Sonia Sotomayor: The Power of Global Role Models in Business and Politics."

CoolGlobalBiz, "In Which a Homeboy Finds Global Business Diversity in Obamaland, or Toward a Color-Blind Economy?"

CoolGlobalBiz, "Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy: One American Family's Tale."

    

 

MONEY WORLD

  

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "NationsBank Struck with Brutal Military Precision."

San Francisco Examiner (SFGate.com), "Money Influences Everything We Do." 

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Heavyweights of Banking" (Wells Fargo vs. Bank of America.)

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "The Wizards of Wall Street West."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Financial World Just Got Smaller" (1997 Asian financial crisis)."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "From Plunge to Profit: Ten Years After the 1987 Crash."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Executive Compensation Report Card; New Age of Pay Topples Old Ideas."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "The Ratekeeper" (profile of Robert Parry, former CEO of Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco).

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Riding Herd on Visa" (profile of former Visa CEO Carl Pascarella).

USA Today, "$1 Million: What's Our Infatuation With this Number?"

CoolGlobalBiz, "Global Currency War? Whither the Almighty U.S. Dollar? Any Other Deep Thoughts to Ponder as We Wander . . . . "

 

 

TECH LAND

 

USA Today, "Dealing with Dot.com's Dark Side: Young Online Executive's Frantic, Fast-paced Life Ends at 26."

USA Today, "Juniper Attacks Cisco with 'Smart Bomb' Accuracy" and "Cisco Faces Critical Juncture on Road to Recovery."

USA Today, "Tech Industry Struggles to Cope With Its Losses."

USA Today, "The Net at 30 - From the Edge to the Mainstream in Just a Blink."

USA Today, "Prospects Appear Grim for PCs - Jazzy Laptops, Wireless Gadgets, Could Spell Doom."

USA Today, "Despite the Hype, B2B Marketplaces Struggle."

USA Today, "Business of LinkedIn is Business."

USA Today, "Infosys Kicks Up Growth Mode."

VentureBeat, "Enterprise Consultancy TCS (Tata) Expands in Downturn."

USA Today, "Venture Capitalists Look Far and Wide for Startups."

  

 

MANAGEMENT & WORKPLACE TRENDS

 

Orange County Register, "A Spiritual Rising - Managers Ushering Traditional and New-Age Values Into Office."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "Nirvana Corp.: In Search of the Perfect Workplace."

CoolGlobalBiz, "From Corporate Managers to Poet Aurelio Asiain, Seeing the World With Fresh Eyes."

USA Today, "Companies Ramp Up Diversity Like Never Before."

USA Today, "Some Companies Such As Wal-Mart Thrive Despite Recession."

Orange County Register, "San Francisco 49ers Blitz NFL Teams with Front Office Too"

Orange County Register, "Businesses Find a New Tool, Creativity."

 

 

BUSINESS SCANDALS *

   

USA Today, "Spy Catcher Focuses on Economic Espionage."

USA Today, "Posse Tracks Billions of Saddam's 'Blood Money' "

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "IRS Cracks Down on 'Fake' Tax Shelters."

USA Today, "Celebrated CEO Faces Critics" (ex-Fannie Mae CEO).

USA Today, "When Companies Investigate Themselves: Too Easy?"

USA Today, "Backdated Options May Snare Some Directors As Critics Blast Rubber-Stamping."

USA Today, "Prosecutors Give CEOs the Mobster Treatment."

USA Today, "Has Hunt for Corporate Criminals Gone Too Far?"

USA Today, "Enron's Legacy: Scandal Marked Turning Point."

USA Today, "Watkins Gets Frank About Days at Enron" (whistle-blower Sherron Watkins).

 * Investigative profiles of business leaders available upon request.

 

  

GENERAL TOPICS

  

Orange County Register, "A Moment of Fate That Won't Die" (Witnessing a Golden Gate Bridge suicide).

USA Today, "A Huntin' We Will Go . . . After Time at the Spa."

Los Angeles Times, "The West: A Literary State of Mind."

USA Today, "Port of Houston Very, Very Lucky After Rita."

USA Today, "Blackout Experts Struggle to Shed Light on Darkness."

San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle (SFGate.com), "The Courtship of Al (Davis): Wooing the Raiders North."

USA Today, "Farmers Face Sad Sights and Big Decisions: 'I've Never Been Through Such a Horrible Ordeal' " (record flooding in Midwest.)

CoolGlobalBiz, "A New Global Journalism of Hope and Digital Diversity?"