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The Social Entrepreneur MBA: Trained to Adapt
MBAs are veering off the corporate path to launch businesses with profit goals and social missions — and they just might have what it takes to survive the slow economy. ...
Tags: MBA, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Non-profit, B-School, Ashoka, Skoll Foundation, Acumen Fund, Teach for America, Bridgespan, FSG Social Impact Advisors, Good Capital, Michael Myser and John Maas
Articles 2009-02-09

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Acumen Supports Charitable Causes with New Event Management Product
Technology Firm Offers Time, Services, and Staff to American Red Cross, American Cancer Society among Others GREENVILLE, S.C. -- In support of charitable causes across the Upstate of South Carolina, Acumen, a professional technology firm located in Greenville, has designed a custom software application to help organizations manage event...
Tags: American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Strategy
Research articles 2007-11-13
Tune Out Mutual Fund Horse Race Reporting
For better or worse (mostly, in my strong opinion, the latter) most mutual fund reporting makes investing seem like a horse race: Here's who won over the past year or so, along with some analysis that attempts to explain those results. That's not surprising, of course. Investing is a bottom-line...
Tags: Fund, Morningstar Inc., Performance, Fidelity Investments, Mutual Fund, Analyst, Firm, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Performance Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Workforce Management, Nathan Hale
Blog posts 2009-10-05
Net Profit
Olyset bed nets, featuring a dramatically better pesticide mechanism and an expected lifetime five times that of existing nets, are now coming off the knitting machines at A to Z, a textile company in Arusha, Tanzania. Behind that breakthrough, though, is something even more striking: a sweeping partnership of for-profit...
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corp., FINANCE, partnership, Sumitomo Corp.
Research articles 2005-03-01
Thailand Firm Returns to Fund Management Scene.
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 10--Choosing an asset manager in many ways is no different from choosing any other financial services provider. Customers offer a premium for convenience, product innovation and most of all, performance, whether it be in...
Tags: asset, Bangkok Post, bank, equity, FINANCE, Investment
Research articles 2004-03-10
Peter Bynoe trades up: sports stadium developer takes his acumen to Loop Capital Markets
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PETER C.B. BY NOE HAS BEEN NAMED MANAGing director of corporate finance at Chicago-based Loop Capital Markets L.L.C., (No. 2 on the BE INVESTMENT BANKS list with $3.2 billion in senior-managed issues). The company's clients have included (as co-managers or book-running managers), the Dormitory Authority of the...
Tags: Loop Capital Markets
Research articles 2008-07-01
Multiplex launches new LPT.
Jul 24, 2006 (Independent Financial Adviser - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Investors wanting to invest in the Multiplex Acumen Funds Property Fund have until 11 August 2006 to do so. Minimum investment in the new fund, which is due to list on the Australian Stock Exchange...
Tags: Australian Stock Exchange Ltd.
Research articles 2006-07-24
Eyes on Shareholder Rules as Walker Sets Out Stall
By Kirstin Ridley and Raji MenonLONDON (Reuters UK) - City of London grandee David Walker risks opening a Pandora's box if he turns shareholder rights into duties and requires investors to explain why they have sold shares as part of a review of bank pay and practices.Some experts argue that...
Tags: Shareholder, Board, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Investor, Walker Review
News items 2009-11-20
NAB takes direct path to retail.
Byline: Christine St Anne Jul 27, 2006 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- National Australia Bank NAB has set up a structured property finance capability. Arthur Psaltis, the head of NAB's new business unit, says the role of the structured property finance...
Tags: FINANCE, National Australia Bank
Research articles 2006-07-27
CPI Plastics Group Limited Announces Private Placement.
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, Dec 19, 2002 CCNMatthews via COMTEX CPI Plastics Group Limited ("CPI" or the "Company") announces it has entered into an engagement agreement with Acumen Capital Finance Partners Limited for a private placement providing for the issuance of 1,000,000 common shares at $7.00...
Tags: CPI Plastics Group Ltd.
Research articles 2002-12-20
Two New Board Members at Laser Diagnostic Technologies; Continued Growth and Focus On the Future Result in Addition of New Directors
Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--BW HealthWire--April 3, 2001 Laser Diagnostic Technologies Inc., announced that two new members have joined its board of directors -- Douglas Reed, M.D., and Robert Palmisano. Reed joins representing Vector Fund Management and Palmisano will occupy a new board seat. Both...
Tags: Laser Diagnostic Technologies
Research articles 2001-04-03
State Street Global Advisors Teams with The Wharton School to Deliver Insightful Wealth Management Research
BOSTON -- State Street Global Advisors SSgA, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) and the largest institutional fund manager in the world, today announced an agreement with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to develop and distribute proprietary research to enhance the wealth management acumen...
Tags: State Street Corp., team, Wharton School
Research articles 2005-05-11
Multiplex plans $640m trust for office property.
Byline: Florence Chong and Turi Condon May 21, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed Multiplex aims to list the new Multiplex Acumen Prime Property Fund in September 2006. The $A640m property trust will hold interests in several prime commercial properties,...
Tags: National Australia Bank
Research articles 2006-05-21
Henry Paulson Could Have Done Better
Gene Chan submits: I expected US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, being the ex-head of Goldman Sachs GS, to be more effective at deploying the $700 billion financial bail-out package handed to him by Congress. I expected him to manage what is essentially one of the world's largest hedge fund with...
Tags: Citigroup Inc., Financial, Gene Chan, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., US Market
External links 2008-11-24
Greenlight Capital: Underwriting Has Potential to Accelerate or Damage Returns
In February, we purchased a 10% position in Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. GLRE, a reinsurance company which invests its "float" in the David Einhorn run hedge fund Greenlight Capital. We wrote that when purchased at or below book value, an investment in Greenlight has the potential for substantial market beating...
Tags: Financial, North Fork Investors
External links 2009-05-10
Burmis Energy Closes $3.9 Million Financing, Increases Capital Budget to $8.5 Million.
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 13, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Burmis Energy Inc. ("Burmis") is pleased to announce that it has closed a previously announced private placement of 3.0 million flow-through common shares raising gross proceeds of $3.9 million. CIBC World Markets Inc. and Acumen Capital...
Tags: Burmis Energy Inc.
Research articles 2003-08-13
eBay: Growth at the Right Bid
Chuck Carnevale submits:eBay EBAY is a truly great American success story. According to eBay's March 2009 Three-Year Roadmap for Growth: "We are positioning this company to compete and win across a range of profitable ecommerce platforms focused on connecting buyers and sellers across the platform of their choice." Founded in...
Tags: Internet, Chuck Carnevale, eBay Inc.
External links 2009-10-15
Weekend Round-Up
Telegraph Why bad bosses like Basil are also nastiest There's a reason Basil Fawlty bullied Manuel. Aggressive bosses who are overwhelmed by their own inabilities are more likely to lash out than competent leaders, says a study by the University of Southern California published in the Psychological...
Tags: Bank, Job, Women, Oft-lauded Sweden, Lovering, Investment Bank, Gender And Diversity, Mortgages, Human Resources, Finance, Capital Structures, BNET UK Staff
Blog posts 2009-10-18
Buffett to buy railroad
Mr Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holding group today announced it would purchase the 77.4 per cent of Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNSF that it does not currently own for $US100 per share in cash and stock. The offer values the rail operator at $US44 billion ($48.62 billion), including $US10 billion in...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett
News items 2009-11-03
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