News tagged with directors
Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care
Apr 10, 2009 |
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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 ...
Director experience with acquisitions improves firm performance
Jan 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
Female Directors Pay Less for Companies in Mergers and Acquisitions: Study
Nov 20, 2008 |
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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.
CEOs hired from outside a firm are more likely to be dismissed
Sep 04, 2008 |
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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 regard ...
Study shows most health department directors see climate change as looming health threat
Jul 29, 2008 |
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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 ...
