The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2003 Edition - Softcover

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9781400031450: The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2003 Edition

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ISBN 10: 1400031451 ISBN 13: 9781400031450

Publisher: Vintage, 2003

A year’s worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.

“Amid Global Turmoil, Wild Times in Trading Afghanis” by Daniel Pearl, from The Wall Street Journal

“Bidding War” by James B. Stewart, from The New Yorker

“This Little Slinky Goes to Market” by Neil Irwin, from The Washington Post

“Yes, We Have No Profits” by Nicholas Stein, from Fortune

“Corporate Veil” by John R. Emschwiller and Rebecca Smith, from The Wall Street Journal

“Portland Subsidiary Mirrors Enron’s Rapid Rise, Fall” by Jeff Manning and Gail Kinsey Hill, from The Oregonian

“How Andersen Went Wrong” by David Ward and Loren Steffy, from Bloomberg Markets

“My Pro Forma Life” by Rob Walker, from Slate

“The Iceberg Wars” by Wayne Curtis, from The Atlantic Monthly

“The Trucker and the Professor” by David Diamond, from Wired

“Telecom’s Pied Piper: Whose Side Was He On?” by Gretchen Morgenson, from The New York Times

“License to Steal” by Roger Lowenstein, from SmartMoney

“Turning Red Ink into Gold” by Rob Kaiser, from Chicago Tribune

“The Incomplete R�sum�?” by Floyd Norris, from The New York Times

“Restating the ’90s” by Michael J. Mandel, from BusinessWeek

“Smaller” by Malcolm Gladwell, from The New Yorker

“Agillion’s Brief, Fast Life” by Lori Hawkins, from Austin American-Statesman

“Is the S&P 500 Rigged?” by Jason Zweig, from Money

“The Rocket’s Red Ink” by Brian Lawson, from The Huntsville Times

“A Race to the Top” by Johnnie L. Roberts, from Newsweek

“Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, from Harvard Business Review

“The CEO and his Church” by Deborah O’Neil and Jeff Harrington, from St. Petersburg Times

“The Economic Strain on the Church” by William C. Symonds from BusinessWeek

“Nationalities of Convenience” by Hal Lux, from Institutional Investor

“India Calling” by S. Mitra Kalita, from Newsday

“Hard Time” by Douglas A. Blackmon, from The Wall Street Journal

“The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice” by Roger Parloff, from Fortune

“The Empire Builder” by Joseph N. DiStefano, from The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine

“Would You Pay $2 Million for This Franchise?” by Carlye Adler, from Fortune Small Business

“Double Play” by Kurt Badenhausen, Cecily Fluke, Lesley Kump, and Michael K. Ozanian, from Forbes

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From the Inside Flap:

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans to find the best business stories from the last twelve months. Among those selected: Michael Lewis on teenage stock trader Jonathan Lebed, from "The New York Times Magazine; James B. Stewart on the irrepressible Michael Milken, from "The New Yorker; and many others from the pages of "The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Rocky Mountain News, and" Wired.
The second annual edition continues the excellence and comprehensive range of this fascinating anthology series.

From the Back Cover:

“[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.”–USA Today, on the 2001 edition

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