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Dutch treat: Netherlands judiciary only goes halfway towards adopting Delaware trilogy in takeover context
ABSTRACT This Note examines Dutch takeover law in light of the current inter-EU competition to attract entities to individual Member States. The recent hostile takeover of the Dutch bank, ABN AMRO, provides an excellent example of the Netherlands' opportunity to use its judiciary to solidify its reputation as a...
Tags: A., ABN AMRO, Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc., Business, Court, Delaware, Delaware Chancery Court, II, Justice, LaSalle Bank Corp., Note, Part III, RBS, Revlon Inc., Section, U.S. Supreme Court, Unitrin, Unocal Corp.
Research articles 2008-10-01
'Why can't a woman be more like a man?': American and Australian approaches to exclusionary conduct
[Much of antitrust law in the United States or trade practices law in Australia is" about 'exclusionary conduct': things that large firms do to acquire an even larger share of the market or preserve their large market share .from being eroded by smaller rivals or new entrants. The object of...
Tags: Australian, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Court, Edwards, F, O'Connor, Rural Press Ltd., S, Section, Stevens, Thomas, Williams, Wilson
Research articles 2007-12-01
Removing the government's immunity from suit in federal cases
[A citizen cannot sue the government without a 'right to proceed', that is, a law removing the government's immunity from suit. Current High Court doctrine holds that, in cases in federal jurisdiction, a right to proceed derives by implication from the grant of jurisdiction. This article subjects that doctrine to...
Tags: Australian, British American Tobacco Plc., Constitution, Deane, High Court, Justice, Section, Western, Wilson
Research articles 2006-12-01
The loss of agricultural land among black farmers
Section 1 Introduction, Background Information and the Issues Justifications For Researching Black Land Ownership In the political economy of capitalism, access to land ownership ranks high as one of the critical factors of production (Marx 1970 & 1977; Mill 1997; Falk 1996). Not only are landed properties...
Tags: Age, Agriculture, American, Black, Blacks, Economy, Farmers, Gilbert, Hispanic, History, Political, Section, South, U.S. Department of Agriculture, White, Wood
Research articles 2006-06-22
Summing up Stopwatch Marketing
Stopwatch Marketing ends on a note of hope: that the book was worth the time it took to read. Overall, it is, for anybody interested in sales and marketing.  That’s because the book makes the case that demographic, data-driven marketing does not work as advertised, and companies need to rethink...
Tags: Section, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-02-25
How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business
Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls “The Grameen Experiment.” Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor,...
Tags: Manufacturing, Regulations, Gender And Diversity, Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, Economist, Section, Poverty, Human Resources, Government, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-01-12
'Fraud on the market': judicial approaches to causation and loss from securities nondisclosure in the United States, Canada and Australia
[Shareholder actions arising from misstatements and nondisclosure have been part of the legal landscape in the United States for some time. The Wall Street stock market crash of the 1920s saw the early development in the United States of strong laws for the protection of investors in the stock market,...
Tags: Australian, Australian Stock Exchange Ltd., B, Court, F, Justice, King, Section, U.S. Supreme Court
Research articles 2005-12-01
The GMAT: Learning From My Experience
When I was preparing for the essay questions, I read in my review book (we'll get to resources, I promise) that one of the biggest indicators of a good score was length. Apparently, the more you write, the more you convince the computer that you know how to write. Luckily, I'm...
Tags: Math, Jenna Miller, Productivity, Section, husband
Blog posts 2007-10-10
Do cry over spilt milk: possibly you can change the past
There is widespread agreement, even among those who accept the possibility of backward causation, that it is impossible to change the past. I argue that this agreement corresponds to a relatively uninteresting understanding of what changing the past amounts to. In one sense it is indeed impossible to change the...
Tags: A., C., F, Fischer, G., J., L., M., Oxford University Press, P., Philosophy, Routledge, Science, Section, T.
Research articles 2005-07-01
Virtual shareholder meetings: who decides how companies make decisions?
[There is no consistent theoretical conception of the corporation either in the Australian corporations legislation or in the case law. This poses interpretive quandaries for courts when confronted with provisions in a corporate constitution which may be inconsistent with the policy underlying a provision of the corporations legislation and/or address...
Tags: Australian, Australian Stock Exchange Ltd., B, Court, Delaware, Faith, Lord, Section
Research articles 2004-08-01
The Grande Prairie land rush of 1910
Ever since explorer Charles Horetzky and botanist John Macoun began touting the Peace River country as a "veritable garden of Eden" in the 1870s, visitors to the region have been struck by its rich agricultural potential. Some scientists. such as James Macoun, did question the extent of productive soil and...
Tags: Grand, John, Section, Tomkins Plc., West
Research articles 2003-09-22
Can Cleveland Clinic Health System be trusted: whether a proposed merger or acquisition by Cleveland Clinic Health System will substantially impair the competitive health care market in Northeast Ohio resulting in a violation of federal antitrust statutes
I. INTRODUCTION II. OVERVIEW OF THE RELEVANT ANTITRUST LAWS A. The Sherman Act 1. Discussion of the Rule of Reason ...
Tags: A., Alexander, Court, F., Federal, Freeman, FTC, Government, Hillcrest Hospital, Section, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-03-22
Lies, damn lies, and misleading advertising: the role of consumer surveys in the wake of Mead Johnson v. Abbott Labs
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." (1) Just as Benjamin Disraeli noted, statistics yield results that one can skew in a variety of ways. If Disraeli was around to observe American society in the second half of the twentieth century, he might have included another...
Tags: American, Corp., F., J., Mead Johnson & Co., Section
Research articles 2001-10-01
Secondary topic as a relation in information structure
Abstract Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker's assumptions concerning the addressee's state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal partition of the information structure into topic-focus, theme-rheme, topic-comment, focus-open proposition, or focus-presupposition is...
Tags: Charles, Discourse, English, John, Journal, N., O2 Plc., Press, Prince, Section
Research articles 2001-01-01
Case summaries
1. Ober v. EPA, 84 F.3d 304 (9th Cir. 1996). Phoenix residents adversely affected by excessive levels of airborne particulates petitioned for review of a final decision of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA under the Clean Air Act CAA. EPA had approved Arizona's State Implementation Plan SIP for...
Tags: Commerce, Council, Court, Justice, L., Management, National Park Service, Section, Thomas, Trident Seafoods Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Unocal Corp.
Research articles 1997-09-22
The Battle Over Restructuring Social Security In The United States
This paper examines the efforts to privatize the Social Security system in the United States. The first section outlines the basic economics of the program and examines the extent to which it faces financial problems in coming decades. The second section briefly describes the political forces that have sought to...
Tags: Privatization, Section, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance
White papers 2003-06-19
The Marine Seafood Export Supply Chain In India
This paper studies the current state of the seafood supply chain in India. The first section discusses seafood sustainability and continues with a brief description of the Indian seafood industry. The second section studies the stakeholders in the supply chain, their roles, income and social conditions. The third section examines...
Tags: Supply Chain, Section, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-12-05
Medical Technologist/Multi-Discipline Job Description
The Medical Technologist/Multi-Discipline job summary: Under the supervision of the designated section Head, performs clinical laboratory procedures, quality assurance, and instrument maintenance. The position reports to the laboratory manager through the section head. The medical technologist also maintains cooperative working relationships with intradepartmental and interdepartmental personnel. Additional information available includes...
Tags: Section, Business & Legal Reports, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Cover Letter And Resume Writing Tips For If You've Been Fired
You may feel obligated to come right out in your resume and tell a prospective employer why you left your former employer. But in all honesty, the resume is not that place. Your goal in the resume is to spell out where you worked and how your active responsibilities and...
Tags: Employer, Section, DiscoveryArticles.com, Professional Development, Career
White papers 2008-09-19
An Effective Resume Objective Can Make A Big Difference
A missing or lame objective section can get your resume tossed in the trash in a matter of seconds. There are quite simply too many better resumes out there to bother. Yet most job seekers screw this up terribly. The basics are thus: toward the top just above or just...
Tags: Job, Section, Resumagic.com, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
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