David Faber is an award-winning journalist for CNBC who had done a long documentary titled House of Cards on the financial crisis of 2008. A TV reporter has an extremely limited opportunity to explain complicated financial and business issues in great detail. The medium does not allow him to do so. He could have brought out the inside story of the financial crisis through detailed...

A New Approach to Charting Growth

After more than a 100 years of success as a product-focused company, DuPont realised it was time to adopt a service approach of “getting paid for what we know.” During the technology churn of the 1990s, IBM’s bright idea of ‘on-demand computing’ set the stage for Big Blue’s transformation from a hardware-focused company losing market share into a...

George Angell, in his new book (Small Stocks for Big Profits, John Wiley & Sons; Pages 210; $49.95), says the big opportunity for individual investors lies in emerging, relatively unknown companies overlooked by stock analysts and institutional investors. He provides strategies for finding up-and-coming companies that could become the Microsofts, Googles or Dells of tomorrow.

Angell’s focus...