Both The Baltimore Sun and Business Week Online look at Apple's recent appointment of Al Gore to its Board of Directors:
[BW] "With its stock price down over the past two years, the last thing Apple shareholders want or need is a celebrity director with zero business experience, aside from the business of fund-raising and politicking. Gore might make a wonderful contribution to Apple in some other capacity. But Jobs & Co. should think long and hard about the message it sends to shareholders with this appointment."
[TBS] "Considering that most corporate board members have deep experience in managing for-profit operations, years of government service and ownership of a Macintosh seem thin qualifications. 'I cannot identify anything he can contribute to the board,' said Charles Wolf, an analyst with New York-based investment bank Needham & Co. 'He hasn't been in private industry, he hasn't been a manager at any point in his career, he has no background in economics.'"
http://www.sunspot.net/technology/c...,0,7125241.column?coll=bal-business-headlines
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2003/tc20030327_1562_tc056.htm
[BW] "With its stock price down over the past two years, the last thing Apple shareholders want or need is a celebrity director with zero business experience, aside from the business of fund-raising and politicking. Gore might make a wonderful contribution to Apple in some other capacity. But Jobs & Co. should think long and hard about the message it sends to shareholders with this appointment."
[TBS] "Considering that most corporate board members have deep experience in managing for-profit operations, years of government service and ownership of a Macintosh seem thin qualifications. 'I cannot identify anything he can contribute to the board,' said Charles Wolf, an analyst with New York-based investment bank Needham & Co. 'He hasn't been in private industry, he hasn't been a manager at any point in his career, he has no background in economics.'"
http://www.sunspot.net/technology/c...,0,7125241.column?coll=bal-business-headlines
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2003/tc20030327_1562_tc056.htm
