I Just Had a Baby, I'll Call You Back
Katty Kay is the Washington Correspondent for BBC World News America. She is the author, along with Claire Shipman, of Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success. Kay has covered Washington since 1996 and is a contributor on "Meet the Press", "Larry King Live", "The Chris Matthews Show" and a regular guest host for Diane Rehm on NPR.
Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America and a regular on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Previously, Shipman was the White House correspondent for NBC news and a reporter for CNN in Moscow, where she earned multiple awards for her coverage of the demise of the Soviet Union. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
In an excerpt from Womenomics, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman say the career ladder is crumbling and women need to forge new paths that can accommodate personal ambition and family.
Good to Not So Great: How Companies Fail
Marion Maneker is the Publisher of ArtMarketMonitor.com. From 2002-2007, he was the publisher of HarperCollins's business books imprint where he worked with Jim Collins, Louis Gerstner, Jack and Suzy Welch and other authors. He writes about business for Slate's The Big Money.com.
Having redefined how organizations go from good to great, bestselling business guru Jim Collins takes on the five roots of decline in his new book, How the Mighty Fall.
The Era of High Profits Is Over
Charles Gasparino is CNBC's On-Air Editor and appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. He is a columnist for the Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His forthcoming book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, is scheduled to be published later in 2009.
President Obama yesterday promised an eventual recovery. But Charlie Gasparino says the crisis for Wall Street-and the states that depend on it-is just beginning.
What Do They Know That We Don't?
Randall Lane is the former editor-in-chief of Trader Monthly, Dealmaker and P.O.V. Magazines, and the former Washington bureau chief of Forbes.
Even as he talks up the stock market, a Daily Beast exclusive shows the president's top economic advisor trounced the indexes (and Tim Geithner) by putting most of his millions into municipal bonds.
Will Apple Finally Lose Its Cool?
Kevin Maney is a contributing editor at Condé Nast Portfolio. He was previously technology columnist and senior technology reporter at USA Today. Maney is the author of The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM and the 1995 BusinessWeek bestseller Megamedia Shakeout. His next book, The Fidelity Swap, will be published in the fall 2009 by Doubleday. He can be found at www.kevinmaney.com.
Steve Jobs' leave of absence won't matter if the company he founded finally goes mass. If that happens, the author says, it would just be rotten for Apple.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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