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• Son's Car Crash Divides Attention of CEO of Winston-Salem, N.C., Spin-off Firm.

  - 2004-04-27

  By M. Paul Jackson, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 27--Despite the financial struggles of Pilot Therapeutics Holdings Inc., Floyd "Ski" Chilton, the company's chief executive officer, was determined to stick with the transplanted South Carolina business, Chilton ...

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• Money Can't buy love in a high-tech merger.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-01

  Michael Lord is an assistant professor of management at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management. He recently co-authored a study that found that social, not financial, incentives are critical to retaining key employees after a merger made to gain knowledge. The study included 89...

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• Using value-at-risk to measure financial risk

  - 1996-01-01

  I. INTRODUCTIONOver the past several decades portfolio and risk management techniques have adapted to increasingly complex financial instruments and risk scenarios. The rapid growth in derivative financial instruments and the derivatives losses reported in recent years have intensified concerns over reliably measuring financial instrument risk exposure. The massive derivative losses...

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