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...In an era where there are growing calls to reconsider the purpose of the corporation, social priorities are finding a hearing in a place hitherto viewed as hostile territory: the boardroom....
...It seems the court is aware of the peril in this approach, writing in an earlier case: “The value of a corporation is not a point on a line, but a range of reasonable values, and the judge’s task is to assign...
...After a wave of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, corporations of all types — from entertainment groups like Sony to retailers, insurers and even carmakers — are spending big money to fight back...
...Wells Fargo is fighting a class-action lawsuit involving around 100 institutional investors initially filed by The City of Farmington Hills Employees Retirement System in the Minnesota District Court, and...
...Jim Campbell, a Scot who moved to the US. He managed me between 2000 and 2005 when I was a divisional chief finance officer and pushed me in appraisals, convincing me I was better than I thought....
...After attracting 3,500 employees, Aetna this year began offering workplace meditation and yoga as a service it sells to customers....
...Analysts at Nomura Equity Research say there has been a slowdown in growth for “on-premise” software vendors such as Oracle, compared with those selling cloud services to corporations, and billings could...
...They will join Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC, which last month agreed a deal with the Financial Services Authority that could lead to hundreds of thousands of pounds being...
...Insurance Corporation alleging that they “gambled” billions of dollars on risky loans....
...Mosaic, also based in Minnesota, reported that net profit rose to $1bn, from $107.8m a year earlier, in the quarter ended in November....
...family in Minnesota was – many more patients walking through Tenet’s doors will have Medicaid coverage....
...Last week the US Treasury said that the issuance of non-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-backed debt was a condition for financial groups that want to repay funds received under the Tarp....
...Just one of the four drugs for kidney cancer that helped fuel the row over health service “top up” payments has passed a renewed appraisal by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence....
...Earnings fell in agricultural services and its food ingredients and applications segment....
...“We have probably been the most aggressive firm in Wall Street to use the Delaware courts to get appraisal rates....
...Minnesota-based Rural Cellular had 716,000 customers at the end of March....
...Mizuho, meanwhile, had to write down the value of its preferred shares in Orient Corporation, a consumer finance group, by 99 per cent, or Y288bn....
...The platform itself represents a multibillion dollar marketplace in hardware and services related to Linux....
...’s 2004 spin-off from Allete, a large Minnesota utility....
...I think a brand is a product or a service, while a reputation is something attached to the parent company. When the two have the same name, it can be difficult to untangle the two....
...MySpace went to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation last year for $580m....
...Digital Corporation, a consortium including all of the US radio operators and other heavyweight investors such as Ford....
...Alltel's intentions to take over Western Wireless represent a bold bet on the outlook for roaming services, which is where regional and rural players make the bulk of their profits. ?...
...disclosed, at least up until the middle of 2003, is that ULR and Cox had separate side arrangements with a group of insurers, including, among others, UnumProvident Corporation; MetLife Inc; and Prudential...
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