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- How Corporate Culture Affects Sales Effectiveness
- People want a cause that they can contribute their life to on a daily basis. Sanford Brown, chief sales officer at Heartland Payment Systems, explains how that sentiment affects sales and motivation within a company. He also talks about the switch from being a private to a publicly controlled company.
- Videos 2009-05-06
- Changing the Rules of the Finance Game
- Treasury head Tim Geithner wants to change the way Wall St. does business by creating a 'super regulator' to oversee failing insurance companies, banks and financial firms. Nancy Cordes reports.
- Videos 2009-03-26
- Private Jets Face Turbulence
- Private jets are becoming a sign of greed and excess in tough economic times. As Mark Strassmann reports, many in the industry are losing their livelihoods and feel the anger is misdirected.
- Videos 2009-05-17
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- What Is Private Equity?
- The term private equity encompasses a range of techniques used to finance commercial ventures in ways that do not involve the use of publicly tradable assets such as corporate stock or bonds. Typical forms of private equity include venture capital, growth and mezzanine capital, angel investing, and private equity funds....
- Articles 2007-03-05
- Citi to reorganise China private banking, shut unit
- By Samuel Shen and George Chen SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) will close its private banking unit in China, which targeted the country's growing ranks of millionaires, and fold the operations into its consumer banking arm as it streamlines its businesses, sources familiar with the situation said on...
- News items 2009-08-07
- If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
- The Idea in Brief Private equity funds' outsize returns to shareholders have many public company managers asking, "If they can get that kind of performance out of a company, why can't we?" Some counter that private...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Are Private Equity Buyouts The Devil's Work?
- Are Private Equity Buyouts The Devil's Work?Some Interview with private equityAs part of blogging the divestment of Reed Business Information from Reed Elsevier I have been lucky enough to interview several senior private equity partners. You can read those here (http://divestmentwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-private-equity-part-one.html) and here (http://divestmentwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-interview-with-private-equity.html)One key view that they both held...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Private equity firms are near deal to buy IndyMac
- IndyMac Bancorp, one of the largest banks to fail as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis, is close to being sold to a consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms in a complex deal partially financed by the U.S. government, people involved in the deal said. The Federal Deposit...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Wal-Mart Moves Reflect Recognition of Middle Class Private Label Shift
- Although a lot off attention has been paid to affluent consumers turning to private label products in the recession, an analysis of the available data by Todd Hale, senior vice president, consumer and shopper insights at The Nielsen Co., demonstrates that it’s really the middle-consumer that is increasing purchases of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Private Label Rivalries Could Inflame Competition Between Wal-Mart, Kroger, Aldi
- Is a private label price war in the making? Perhaps, if Kroger lives up to suggestions that it will drop prices on private label groceries as commodity costs slide. Not that everyone is predicting immediate intensification of private label price rivalries. Speaking at Reuters...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Costco, Safeway Ensure Private Labels Won't Fade With Recession
- Alberstons LLC announced this week that it was rolling out Safeway's O Organics line of natural foods, and the move demonstrates why private labels that have grown with the recession won’t fade when it ends. Retailer efforts to make store brands more attractive and integral to the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Will Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?
- Amazon last night announced it Virtual Private Cloud service, essentially giving enterprise customers worried about security and control in the cloud a salve to get them to trust it. The offering provides access to Amazon's web services through a virtual private network, which is basically a secure tunnel through the...
- News items 2009-08-26
- What Can Private Equity Do to Get Rid of Toxic Debt?
- Like hunting hounds on the prowl, private equity groups are picking up scents of profits in toxic bank assets. Will this help the Obama administration in its so-far confused search for a way to toxic bad debt off the market? Maybe some, but there are limits to what private equity...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- How Private Insurers Could Compete With a Public Plan
- The Commonwealth Fund, one of the principal sources of health policy ideas for the Obama Administration, has estimated the potential savings of three different insurance reform scenarios from 2010 to 2020. Assuming that unspecified Medicare reforms and delivery system changes were implemented within a framework of universal coverage, the report...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- IT shops rally around private clouds
- Computerworld - Private clouds -- where companies use their own infrastructure and provision virtualized services to end users via automated tools -- are gaining traction among IT leaders who want to deliver advanced services at lower cost. However, as with any new approach to computing, private clouds today fall short...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Land a Private Placement to Fund Critical Investments
- Seeking out private investors doesn't just promise more control over the process than a public offering — it often leads to bigger payouts, too. The scenario: A public company in need of serious...
- Articles 2008-11-20
- With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks
- While the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of the economy is grabbing the nation's undivided attention, private investors are pouring billions into the U.S. financial system and backing banking groups poised to survive the current crisis. Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outside money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Aldi Boosting Reputation with Refurished Private Labels
- Aldi is reconfiguring its private label line up, streamlining the number of the own brands it operates to boost their reputation and the reputation of the store. And it’s doing so just in time to open its 1,000th U.S. Aldi store, which debuted two days ago in...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Boston Private Financial Holdings Announces Management Changes at First Private Bank & Trust
- James D. Dawson, President and COO of Boston Private Bank & Trust Named Interim CEO of First Private BOSTON -- Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPFH), today announced that the Board of Directors of its Los Angeles-based affiliate, First Private Bank & Trust, has approved a series of...
- Research articles 2008-02-26
- Private Equity Group Buying IndyMac Assets: FDIC
- By Karey Wutkowski and Megan Davies WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms, including Dune Capital Management and J.C. Flowers & Co, has agreed to buy the assets of failed mortgage lender IndyMac, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Friday. The FDIC said...
- News items 2009-08-07
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