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Director experience with acquisitions improves firm performance

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 experi ...





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Xerox Buys Global Imaging Systems

Technology / Business

created Apr 03, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global Imaging Systems will start selling Xerox printers, copiers and multifunction devices, which is expected to help expand Xerox's reach into the small and midsize business space.


CEOs reap financial benefits from mergers regardless of stock performance

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 18, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Following an acquisition of another company, chief executive officers' compensation levels usually increase, even when the purchase turns out to be unprofitable, according to researchers at the University of Washington and ...


Are overconfident CEOs born or made? asks Management Insights study

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

A study of CEO's finds that many overestimate their own negotiating skills and overlook the element of luck in successful mergers, acquisitions, and other deals, according to the Management Insights feature in the current ...


Voter group challenges Diebold voting machine sale

Technology / Business

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- A voter advocacy organization asked the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday to undo the sale by Diebold Inc. of its voting machine business, saying the transaction promotes a monopoly.


Global priority regions for carnivore conservation

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding economical and practical solutions for conserving endangered carnivores is a continuous challenge for conservationists. In a study published by the peer reviewed open access journal, PLoS ONE, on August 27th, a team ...


Cisco said it will pay cash and retention-based incentives for ScanSafe

Cisco to buy ScanSafe for $183 million

Technology / Business

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cisco announced on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Web security company ScanSafe for some 183 million dollars, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the US networking giant.


Many lack the skills to make good health decisions

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some 93 million Americans do not have the numerical skills necessary to make well-informed decisions about their medical care, reports a Cornell professor, who has some suggestions on changing that.


YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006

YouTube views over one billion a day: co-founder

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The number of video views a day on YouTube has surpassed one billion, the co-founder of the wildly popular video-sharing site said Friday on the third anniversary of its acquisition by Google.


Don't stand by me: Study explores role of personal connections in failing projects (w/ Podcast)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When business leaders leave organizations following poor decisions, constituents often find comfort in replacing them with insiders — others familiar with the problem and original choices.


Women living in group homes need to learn to make decisions about leisure time to enrich their lives

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most people don't think twice about the ability to choose the movie they want to watch, the book they want to read or with whom they will have coffee. But what if you didn't have the choice, or were never taught how to make ...



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