Barbara Rose

There are a lot of struggling public companies these days, and lawyer Peter Mason is thinking of calling on a few hundred of them. He and a lot of others...

Even before Harvey Pitt resigned as the nation's top securities cop, a list of successors was circulating. One name stands out among the enforcers, lawyers, judges and academics. It's the...

If ads collect underneath your Web pages like dust bunnies beneath a bed, blame it on hard times that force people to try new things. The seemingly ubiquitous ads for...

Tired of being cajoled into buying? Maxed out on bargains and easy credit? No wonder. Consumers kept the economy growing despite rising unemployment and the stock market's long swoon. Many...

Back when Internet stocks were creating trillions of dollars in ephemeral wealth, the hype machine for the promising young field of nanotechnology was cranking up. Surprisingly, it wasn't investment bankers...

Americans love to hate monopolies. That said, there's a special place of contempt in our hearts for telephone monopolies. Remember Lily Tomlin's classic send-up of Ma Bell? "We don't care....

Unions for United Airlines offered Wednesday to give back $5 billion over five years to help the troubled carrier avoid bankruptcy. The concessions amount to more than half of the...

Motorola Inc. has never worked harder to sell its story on Wall Street, but investors aren't buying. Why? For starters, it doesn't take much these days to persuade investors to...

Being a jilted suitor is never easy, but there are worse fates. One of them? Walking a future spouse down the aisle while angry relatives holler objections from the back...

An investment banker on his way to work thought he sensed something different in the Loop's work-a-day rhythms--a "buzz" in the air. An Exelon worker, puffing on a cigarette, thought...