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Paul M. Barrett

Business

Is Funeral Home Chain SCI's Growth Coming at the Expense of Mourners?

How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.

Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink

Business Crime Politics

Why Gun Makers Fear the NRA

Money, money, money.

Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Mar 2013 15min Permalink

Sports

Will Brain Injury Lawsuits Doom or Save the NFL?

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Jan 2013 15min Permalink

Politics

Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time

How the former Bush advisor is “reengineering the practice of partisan money management in hopes of drumming Barack Obama out of the White House.”

Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Jul 2012 15min Permalink

Business

Can Brian Moynihan Save Bank of America?

The CEO of the US’s biggest bank doesn’t have much charisma or a track record, but he’s “doing as well as any little Dutch boy can—sticking his fingers in the dike.”

Dawn Kopecki, Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Sep 2011 20min Permalink