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- Commercial Governance Ratings in Question
- The Find: Governance advisory firms claim they can predict the future performance of a public company by analyzing public data, but new research claims the value of their ratings is dubious at best. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- M&A Failure Often Follows M&A Success
- The Find: One successful merger or acquisition may actually make a CEO less likely to find success with M&A decisions in the future. The Source: An article in the "Management Insights" feature in the current issue of "Management Science." The Takeaway: If your CEO...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Investment Risk in Africa Now on Par with Asia
- The Find: More than half of M&A deal-makers expressed significant interest in China, India and Southeast Asia despite their belief that risks in the region nearly equal those in Africa. The Source: "M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities and Risks," commissioned...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Good Governance Is Good For the Bottom Line
- The Find: Companies with excellent corporate governance records report 18 percent higher stock returns than those with poor records. The Source: A new report from the Association of British Insurers The Takeaway: Researchers at ABI studied over 600 public companies in the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The Causes of Our Economic Woes: an Alternative View
- The stock market fell and then rose nearly three hundred points in what had to have been a queasy day for investors. The turmoil in the markets and concerns about the economy are casting a shadow over an atypically gloomy meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The roots...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Creative Investment Idea for Baseball Fans, Economists
- Imagine you've ponied up for an MBA, PhD, or a decade of world-class sports coaching. You're looking for a job, but you could use some cash now. In the future, you're likely to have substantial earnings but that's no help to you at the moment. Or is it? ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Top 10 Misconceptions about Doing Business in China
- Think you know the basics of the business relationship between China and the U.S.? From safety recalls to the trade imbalance, issues surrounding the two countries' business dealings have been in the news a lot lately. Nonetheless, the Kiplinger Business Resource Center has an eye-opening article dispelling ten common misconceptions...
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Show Them The Door: 3 CEOs Who Need to Go
- With the recent departures of Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal and Citigroup CEO Chuck Price,the question on everyone's mind is who will be the next to go. Today the Motley Fool is telling it straight by offering readers "3 CEOs Who Should Go." First up, Countrywide's Angelo...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- How to Avoid M&A Culture Clash
- Mergers and acquisitions are aimed at creating a leaner, meaner company with greater shareholder value. Yet research concludes that up to 80% of large cap and 50% of small cap transactions fail to meet their objectives within 18 months. That's pretty dismal. What's to blame? Not a...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- The Unintended Consequences of Stock Options
- Stock options are designed to encourage executives to focus on the needs of the shareholder. Giving the CEO a stake in the company's market performance sounds like an elegant and effective way to make sure his or her attention is in the right place. But a study from management professors...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- African Investments Worth a Look
- We've blogged before about whether you should consider investing in Africa. It might sound crazy, but some of American business's toughest competitors are already there in force, there are a lot of undervalued assets , and ethical investment can sometimes be the most effective form of humanitarian aid. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Google Hits $600: A Round-Up of Chatter
- Google's stock price briefly topped $600 a share today, a new high. It seems Google is everywhere in the business press, and not just for this latest stock market high water mark. A quick round-up of Google chatter: Bloomberg canvassed over 30 stock analysts for their price...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs Have Ideas, Need Cash
- Maybe you've seen the movie Wall Street a few too many times. Maybe it was just one accounting scandal or product safety recall too many, but sometimes it's pretty easy to be down on business. Greed can make people do some ugly things. And then you...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Venture Capitalists Look Beyond Silicon Valley
- There's nothing surprising about venture capitalists investing in start-up Web 2.0 companies. Investment in Web 2.0 companies during the first half of 2007 is up 7% from the same period last year and everyone's talking about social networking sites and wikis. What is surprising is where these companies are based....
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Physician Heal Thyself -- Business Journalism Takes Some Tough Criticisim
- The collapse of the sub-prime lending market with all its attendant effects took a lot of people by surprise this summer. (But, as we've previously blogged, not everyone.) Should we have been so surprised? Perhaps those with a vested interest in the industry were blinded by their own need to...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Another New Face at Chrysler
- A month after hiring former Home Depot chief, Bob Nardelli, as CEO of embattled car manufacturer Chrysler, Cerberus Capital Management announced today that James E. Press, the highest ranking American at not-so-embattled Toyota, would become the company's new vice-chairman and co-president. Toyota recently surpassed Chrysler and Ford to become the...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Amplifying Dissent in Your Organization
- The recent chaos in the markets has everyone asking the same question: How come no one saw this coming? People wonder how we ever got so far down the wrong track. Didn't any of the smart guys in these now flailing investment funds and banks see the underlying problems...
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Investing in Africa: Not As Crazy As It Sounds?
- If American business thinks of Africa at all, it's usually as a tax write-off generating charity case. That's a mistake writes Thomas Kostigen on MarketWatch.com in response to a new report by investment consultant RogersCasey. Africa, according to Kostigen and RogersCasey, offers ethically responsible investment opportunities with attractive risk-adjusted returns....
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- How Worried Should You Be About Turmoil in the Markets?
- Stocks have slid sharply lower the last two days over liquidity fears prompting the Fed to inject a further $19 billion into the system today. The central bank said it was acting "to facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets." European and Asian markets were also down and European central...
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Index Rates Stability of Emerging Markets
- Eurasia Group has released it's Global Political Risk Index for August, which ranks emerging markets for political stability. The index uses twenty indicators in four equally weighted categories: government, society, security and economy, to provide valuable insights for businesses looking to invest in emerging markets. Writing for...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
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