Wall Street Journal, 1/16/10

Wall Street Journal’s Five Best.

I wrote the Wall Street Journal’s Five Best column this week on books on finance in a time of trouble.

TheDailyBeast.com, 12/8/09

Tiger Woods Fire Sale

As the mistress scandal deepens, retailers are slashing their prices on Tiger Woods merchandise—and disillusioned collectors are dumping their memorabilia.

Last Man Standing

My book on Jamie Dimon was published by Simon & Schuster on October 6, 2009.

Here I am on CNBC talking about him. And on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer. And Dan Gross’ podcast (The Big Money/Newsweek).

Some reviews:
–Bloomberg’s Norm Pearlstine
–Fortune magazine
–New York Times
–Business Week
–USA Today
–Kirkus Reviews

And more:

A Q&A with Newsweek’s Dan Gross.

A Dow Jones piece on Career Tips.

Click below to get yourself a copy:

Amazon: Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

TheDailyBeast.com, 11/19/08 (2)

Palin’s Gold Mine.

Sarah Palin sold 300,000 copies of Going Rogue on its first day of sale. More details on the media rollout that’s doubled as a $25.6 million economic stimulus package.

TheDailyBeast.com, 11/19/08

Gross Vampire Product

With the Twilight juggernaut returning to theaters this week, we crunched the numbers for movies, books, and television to determine the size of America’s vampire economy.

NYT Book Review, 11/1/09

The New York Times Book Review calls my book “memorable” — along with a few other things that aren’t so complimentary.

Fortune.com, 10/23/08

Galleon scandal’s executive conundrum.

If straight-arrow McKinsey allowed one of its stars to get involved with Raj Rajaratnam, what are other top execs at other companies involved in?

Harvard Business Review, 10/1/09

What the JPMorgan shakeup reveals about Jamie Dimon.

The message behind JPMorgan Chase’s headline-grabbing executive shakeup this week is that CEO Jamie Dimon is trying to de-mythologize himself. That’s good news for the investment bank, its employees, and its shareholders.

NYmag.com, 10/1/09

Who Will Succeed Ken Lewis?

So Ken Lewis finally succumbed to the inevitable and announced his resignation as CEO of Bank of America yesterday. Hot on the heels of a succession scuttlebutt over at rival JPMorgan Chase, the board of Bank of America now has to make a decision fast about Lewis’ successor. Who are they considering?

Fortune.com, 9/18/09

When a banking feud got physical

The second except from Duff McDonald’s forthcoming book, Last Man Standing, about a dust-up that may have sealed Jamie Dimon’s fate at Citi in the late 1990s.