Equity market neutral managers had a good month with their growth and earnings revision factors the main drivers of performance.

Until now, storage managers who want to monitor and analyze the aggregate performance of their file servers have resorted to writing their own custom tools and performing their own analysis. With the performance dashboard, not only is all essential performance information presented in an easy-to-use visual format, but for the first time, the administrator has the power to analyze and allocate resources from a single point of control.

Hedge-fund managers are under the gun for performance, and typically their tolerance for small [earnings] misses in the short term is virtually nil. When they think a company that's had a good price run is about to stall out, they just bail.

Enron also focused debates concerning corporate governance and corporate social performance to the forefront of the minds of shareholders, managers, and public policy makers.

We are extremely disappointed with our fourth-quarter operating and financial performance. We have let down our customers, our shareholders and, not least of all, our employees.

[Periods of slow growth are not uncommon in public radio, but the numbers still have station managers talking.] You grow accustomed to asking, 'How much bigger is this year's than last?' ... It can be a splash of cold water to say, 'What? It didn't grow?'