PHYSorg.com: PHYSorg news tagged with: directors http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research. Details were published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. http://www.physorg.com/news158583441.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:59:00 EST news158583441 Director experience with acquisitions improves firm performance A new study in Strategic Management Journal examines how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a firm's performance. Results show that this past experience and expertise will have positive effects on the firm's acquisitions. http://www.physorg.com/news150558890.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:54:50 EST news150558890 Female Directors Pay Less for Companies in Mergers and Acquisitions: Study When taking over companies, female executives get a better purchase price than their male counterparts, according to researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. http://www.physorg.com/news146418036.html Other Sciences Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:40:36 EST news146418036 CEOs hired from outside a firm are more likely to be dismissed A new study in Strategic Management Journal reveals that Boards of Directors commonly make mistakes in CEO appointments when they hire CEOs from outside the firm. The Board knows less than the external CEO candidates regarding their true competencies, and as a result Boards often make faulty hires when they seek new leadership outside the firm. Boards can help avoid the problem of short-tenured external appointments -- although not eliminate it -- if they create nominating committees with leadership by outside directors, who tend to have broader perspectives on the skills of potential candidates. http://www.physorg.com/news139751869.html Other Sciences Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:57:49 EST news139751869 Study shows most health department directors see climate change as looming health threat A new study from George Mason University reveals that while a majority of U.S. health department directors believe their city or county will have serious public health problems as a result of climate change within the next 20 years, very few of them have planned or implemented activities to detect, prevent or adapt to these health threats. http://www.physorg.com/news136566225.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:03:45 EST news136566225