Last week, a crowd of 200 business reps and government officials piled into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Washington headquarters for the organization's annual State of AmericanBusinessconference.
She was interviewed by New York Times editor Jill Abramson last Thursday during the Society of AmericanBusiness Editors and Writers conference in New York.
David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina of Stanford's Graduate School of Business analysed the transcripts of nearly 30, 000 conference calls by American chief executives and chief financial officers between 2003 and 2007.