Condé Nast Portfolio, December 2008
Features
Heartbreak Hotels
Blackstone picked up Hilton for $26 billion at the peak of the buyout market. With the industry now in a hole, C.E.O. Stephen Schwarzman might wish he had never checked in. Read more
Mayor Bloomberg's Delicate Condition
New York's popular mayor is dogged by a class-action suit charging that his media company discriminated against pregnant staffers. Read more
De La Hoya vs. the Boxing Establishment
The middleweight fighter is emerging as a heavyweight promoter with 50 boxers in his stable. Can he get a bloodied sport back in the ring? Read more
The Hedge Fund Collapse
Pols are gunning for hedge funds, and investors are bailing as a high-flying industry prepares for its great reckoning. How did it fall so far? Read more
Be a Trump!
Plenty of sons follow their fathers into the business world, but only Donald Jr. can dish on surviving the meltdown in true Trump fashion—and explain his father's 1980s style. Read more
The Hard Sell
With G.M. seeking a buyer for its tanking Hummer line, four agencies offer their visions on how to rebrand the world's most infamous S.U.V. View Slideshow
Culture Inc.
Art Basel's Blue Period
Luxury sponsors of the art-world elite's annual party are scaling back—or pulling out. Read more
Pimp Your House
While the mortgage crisis rages, a few L.A. homeowners are turning their houses into film sets. View Graphic
The Sultan of Sway
Book Review: A new book reveals how Washington's close relationship with a Saudi diplomat went up in smoke after 9/11. Read more
The Culturati: December
What's on these executives' December cultural calendars. Read more
New New Things
Flat-screen TVs, earphones, video cameras—priced for both bull and bear markets. View Slideshow
Columns
'09 Investing Survival Guide
Here's what worked in 2008, and how to get ahead in 2009. Read more
Don't Believe the Hype
Paul Krugman saw the $700 billion bailout's fatal flaw. Read more
Worst of Times
The crash and coming crises. Read more
The Peterson Principle
The Blackstone co-founder launches a $1 billion foundation to warn about U.S. debt. Read more
Brief
When the Giving Is Gone
What happens to the largest charitable gifts of failed banks? Read more
Disappearing Acts
Lenders' once-earnest feel-good slogans are now hopelessly ironic. Read more
Bailout Out—And Back
The S&L rogues of the '80s and '90s: Where are they now? Read more
Real Business, Real Results
Did anyone at Microsoft ever watch the (gasp!) offensively funny show Family Guy?
Ex-Morgan Stanley exec Zoe Cruz is now heading her own hedge fund. Are Wall Street's leaders done?
Martha, Bernie and Skilling know that what you wear for court can go a long way in public perception.
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Health Care
Bad to the Bone No More
Companies such as General Mills say they're stepping up efforts to change employees' bad
behavior and promote healthier lifestyles.
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