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...This is why a new NBER working paper from Robin Greenwood and Marco Sammon from Harvard Business School is so interesting (it also thanks Lloyd Blankfein, among others, for “helpful comments”)....
...Giving Ben & Jerry’s board just four days’ notice, according to its own legal papers, it announced it would sell the ice-cream brand’s Israeli arm to a company run by Zinger, in a deal that completed two...
...The phone company advised Rubenstein of the impending disclosure after receiving what his lawyers called a “harassing” and “outrageous” subpoena from Black’s legal team....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...The culprits are no secret: companies in the pulp and paper and palm oil industries. Small farmers also burn off forest and peatland. Indonesia’s annual blazes were first taken seriously in 1997....
...But, in terms of financing the deal, Xerox is a much smaller company — its market cap is only $8bn and HP Inc's is now $30bn, after its shares rose 11 per cent today on the report....
...At current rates, the Big Three will control over a quarter of S&P 500 equity by 2028, up from one-fifth in 2018, according to a paper last year from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...“Going into the last cycle, leveraged loans and high-yield bonds were mainly held by institutions,” said Bruce Bennett of Jones Day, referring to the banks and insurance companies that previously dominated...
...Almost 40 per cent of workers in the US have been subject to non-compete agreements at some point in their career, according to a paper published in 2015....
...Then in 1977 came two Supreme Court decisions, first Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat and then Continental TV v. GTE Sylvania....
...The 1984 case, formally known as “Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council Inc” formalised the legal doctrine that requires judges to defer to administrative agencies’ interpretation of federal...
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...For the contribution to count as “excluded”, there must be a piece of paper somewhere that designates it as such, according to the offering memorandum: "Excluded Contribution’’ means net cash proceeds...
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...And who else but a company backed by deal shark John Malone on the hunt for blockbuster M&A?...
...On paper, the new class of stock, whose value is tied to a large part of Dell’s investment in data centre technology company VMware, will be worth even more than the shares sold at the time of Facebook’s...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Mr Bolloré has the thick hide of a man who has found fortune in everything from west African trade to paper manufacturing to advertising....
...With the Panama Papers, the service provider is a law firm called Mossack Fonseca and not the more familiar and (for many) friendly Apple....
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...I can work from anywhere in the UK, or overseas, often dialling into calls or reading board papers. That is a balance that most careers cannot offer you in an executive role....
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