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• UC Irvine Extension Offers New Course, "Raising Capital"

  - 2008-05-08

  Industry Experts Dr. Dani Babb and Tamara Nall to Lead New Course Designed to Help Entrepreneurs Raise Capital to Start a Business IRVINE, Calif. -- UC Irvine Extension, the continuing education arm of the University of California, Irvine, has recruited nationally-recognized author and entrepreneurship expert, Dr. Danielle Babb and...

  Tags: Dr., entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, financing, Investment, University of California

• homes on the range: COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON CALIFORNIA'S PRIVATELY OWNED HARDWOOD RANGELANDS

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT This essay describes the conservation history of California's hardwood rangelands: a vast region of oak woodland, grassland, and chaparral vegetation that occurs almost entirely on private property. Conservation has played as important a role in the history of California's privately owned hardwood rangelands as it has on the neighboring...

  Tags: Agriculture, California, Computer Associates International Inc., conservation, Conservation, Environmental, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Murphy, Richard, Strategy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of California

• Marc Micozzi Appointed to Prestigious Advisory Board of UC Irvine Extension's "Spa & Hospitality Management" Certificate Program

  - 2007-10-05

  Integrative Medicine Expert Selected as Advisor to Internationally-Renowned Certificate Program BETHESDA, Md. & IRVINE, Calif. -- University of California, Irvine Extension, the pioneer of the first "Spa and Hospitality Management" certificate program on the West Coast, also the first and only fully-online certificate program of its kind in the...

  Tags: advisor, Benefits, curriculum, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Investment, SOFTWARE, Strategy, University of California

• France Cordova: chancellor, The University of California Riverside

  - 2007-04-01

  As chancellor for the University of California Riverside, France Cordova tells the students to reach for the stars. And her life as a world respected astrophysicist is a wonderful metaphor for those who have struggled to find their path in life. Born in France (which inspired her to an...

  Tags: CAREER, chancellor, FINANCE, France, Investment, scientist, University of California

• Fitch Rates California Public Works Board $321MM UC Lease Bonds 'AA-'

  - 2007-03-12

  NEW YORK -- Fitch assigns an 'AA-' rating to the California State Public Works Board SPWB lease revenue refunding bonds issued on behalf of the Regents of the University of California the Regents as follows: ---Approximately $161.2 million lease revenue refunding bonds 2007A Various University of California Projects; ...

  Tags: board, bond, FINANCE, Fitch, Investment, payment, revenue, University of California

• FDI And The Composition Of Tasks: Evidence From Linked Employer-Employee Data

  BNET - 2007-03-09

  Theories of offshoring stress that it generates international trade in tasks and as such affects the composition of tasks performed at home. Detailed information is used about the employees at German multinationals to analyze how the firms' foreign activities affect the demand for different types of tasks. The effect on...

  Tags: Task, San Diego, Worker, Foreign Direct Investment, University Of California, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Investment, Finance

• Human Capital, Bankruptcy And Capital Structure

  BNET - 2006-12-05

  We derive a firm's optimal capital structure and managerial compensation contract when employees are averse to bearing their own human capital risk, while equity holders can diversify this risk away. In the presence of corporate taxes, our model delivers optimal debt levels consistent with those observed in practice. It also...

  Tags: Leverage, Capital Structure, Bankruptcy, University Of California, Capital Structures, Human Capital, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• FPA fighting fit for national conference.

  - 2005-11-18

  Byline: Simon de Bruyn Nov 18, 2005 (Independent Financial Adviser - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Financial Planning Association of Australia FPA will staging its 2005 annual conference on the...

  Tags: conference, FINANCE, Investment, University of California

• Economists Will Meet at UC Santa Barbara to Discuss 'the Equity Premium' on 20th Anniversary of Groundbreaking Paper; Two Nobel Prize Winners Among Participants.

  - 2005-10-13

  Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 13 AScribe Newswire -- The Department of Economics and the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara are co-sponsoring a conference later this month to celebrate the 20th...

  Tags: conference, economist, equity, FINANCE, financial, Investment, University of California

• Foreign Investment And The Mediation Of Trade Flows

  BNET - 2005-10-06

  How does foreign direct investment affect the trade between nations? Most theories of the multinational firm assume that imports and foreign affiliate production are substitutes. In this framework multinational firms possess firm-specific assets or advantages, and a primary question they face is how they may best exploit their unique assets....

  Tags: Asset, University Of California, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Asset Management, Investment, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations