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Nanette Byrnes

Nanette Byrnes

Nanette Byrnes has been a senior writer at BusinessWeek since March 2003, specializing in corporate finance and management. She was previously associate editor, Corporations department editor, and a finance correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau. Among her BusinessWeek cover stories are "Confused About Earnings?," "Accounting in Crisis," "The Good CEO," "The Rise and Fall of Dennis Kozlowksi," and "Is Wilbur Ross Crazy?" In addition to BusinessWeek, Byrnes' work has appeared in Smart Money and Financial World and on National Public Radio. Byrnes is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage, and the Deadline Club Award for Excellence in Business Reporting, among others. She is a contributor to BusinessWeek.com's Management IQ blog, and has been interviewed by CNN, CNBC, FOX, NPR and other outlets. She holds a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Recent Articles by Nanette Byrnes

April 8, 2010

How Altria Is Winnowing Out Fake Marlboros

On a clear February morning, a team of inspectors marches into the Subrina Mini Mart in the working-class Queens (N.Y.) neighborhood of Woodhaven. The shelves are ...

February 18, 2010

Deloitte Consulting is Hiring

Most companies today are hesitant to hire in big numbers for fear of prolonged economic weakness. Not Deloitte Consulting. The consulting arm of Big 4 audit giant ...

February 10, 2010

The Gold-Plated Boardroom: No Comp Crisis For Most Highly Paid Directors

Comp crisis? Not for big-time corporate directors. Their pay is soaring—in some cases, into the millions

January 13, 2010

Pepsi Brings In the Health Police

In February 2007, when Derek Yach, a former executive director of the World Health Organization and an expert on nutrition, took a new job with PepsiCo (PEP), his ...

December 21, 2009

Executive Pay 2009: The Naughty and Nice: Executive Pay 2009: The Naughty ...

With the economy in turmoil amid public outrage over CEO compensation, some companies and executives tempered their pay packages. Others weren't so nice

December 17, 2009

The Issue: Premium Efforts Needed at Hanover

When Fred Eppinger joined Hanover Insurance Group (THG) as CEO back in 2003, the company was close to bankruptcy. A disastrous stock market plunge had badly hurt ...

December 16, 2009

Thank Goodness That's Over: The Year In Review 2009

The Unbelievable Quotes, Acts, and Ideas of 2009

December 15, 2009

CFOs Gloomy About 2010, Survey Finds

A week ago the news on the economy was upbeat, with consumer sentiment remarkably higher in one measure. Today, some CFOs are throwing cold water on that good news. ...

October 29, 2009

Smithfield: Not Living So High on the Hog

It's flu season again—bad news for Smithfield Foods (SFD), the world's largest producer of pork. Six months ago, fears that the H1N1 strain might have originated at ...

October 15, 2009

An R&D Credit Not Earning Its Keep

Business doesn't like much about the President's tax plan, but one tasty carrot appeals to executives: the idea of extending indefinitely a widely used credit for ...