Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Business

After its end, Target proxy fight still puzzling

Joe Nocera writes at the New York Times about the Target / Pershing Square proxy contest that ended yesterday on Thursday: You can’t help but suspect that Mr. Ackman’s subsequent proxy fight, one of the most expensive ever mounted, was an act of pique. His dedicated Target fund had lost, according to numerous reports, some [...]

The Notebooks

Over at Design Observer, Michael Bierut writes about his 85 notebooks that he’s used over the last 26 years: When I look at these notebooks, many of the references bring back memories, some decades old. But other times I frankly can’t remember why I was writing these things down. Did I ever call Dilland? Whatever [...]

It was 15 years ago…

today that I first walked in the doors of a Target store as a team member – Assets Protection Specialist was the title – I was making $5.71/hr. Fifteen years later, six months, and moving through seven different roles — I’m still here as Manager, Assets Protection Innovation at HQ — the “dessert” party for [...]