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BUSINESS News, Oct 11, 2011


VacationRoost Launches Travel Desk for Property Managers
MarketWatch (press release)
"For years, we have wanted to offer these travel services to our guests," said Michael Magliocchetti, President of Key To The Rockies, a property management companyin Keystone, Colorado. "The logistics, technology and effort required to effectively ...
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Investment Company Institute launches new trade organization ICI Global
Banking Business Review
ICI president and CEO Paul Stevens said ICI Global will seek to advance the common interests and promote public understanding of global investment funds, their managers, and their investors as market and regulatory issues increasingly cross borders. ...
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Walgreens Adds to Leadership Team in Pharmacy, Health and Wellness Division
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Jeffrey Kang will join the company on Oct. 31 as senior vice president of health and wellness services and solutions, reporting to both President and CEO Greg Wasson and President of Pharmacy, Health and Wellness Kermit Crawford. ...
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Good Managers Admit Their Mistakes
Palisades Hudson Financial Group
by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP® A few weeks ago, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that, in the wake of an unpopular price hike, the company would split its streaming and DVD-by-mail services onto two separate websites. Users who wanted both services ...
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Liew continues to helm SP Setia
The Edge Malaysia
“Tan Sri Liew will continue to lead SP Setia Bhd as its CEO. The existingmanagement team will also continue to manage the company with the same high professional standards and spirit of excellence which have caused SP Setia to be voted the No 1 ...
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MATRIXX Software raises US$12m in venture funding
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct 11, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- MATRIXX Software, developer of the next generation of online charging and subscriber policy managementsolutions, today announces another round of funding, totaling US$12m, led by Innovacom with ...
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Jadu Announces 'Weejot' Mobile Web App Publishing Service
MarketWatch (press release)
We've made it easy for non-technical managers and marketers to create and deploy apps to mobile devices." said Suraj Kika, Jadu's CEO. Weejot provides tools to create and deploy apps inside the Weejot 'AppStudio'. It uses data from back office systems,...
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SonicWALL Announces Suite of Application Traffic Analytics Tools
MarketWatch (press release)
The SonicWALL suite of Application Traffic Analytics solutions improves networkmanagement and helps drive ROI and business productivity by ensuring business-critical service-level and compliance requirements are consistently met. ...
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Shareholders need bigger role: report
Financial Post
The guidelines call for at least one member of each board committee to be an independent director and that CEO compensation and succession planning should be led by directors who have no management role in the company. “All public companies should ...
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Marquette Associates Selects InvestorForce for Advanced Performance Reporting ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Marquette Associates will also utilize InvestorForce Collect, which automates the receipt of account-specific data from investment managers for reconciliation and reporting purposes. "InvestorForce's fully integrated, web-based platform will enable us...
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213 Ventures Deploys Ctuit RADAR for Business Intelligence
PR Web (press release)
Now, managers are able to access operational information online – anytime, anywhere. Also, having the ability to view historical data allows us to evaluate sales trends and make the appropriate strategic decisions for our business,” commented Skyler ...
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OC Business Journal Names eGumball the Eighth Fastest Growing Company in 2011
PR Newswire (press release)
With a service profile including Google Places Optimization, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Pay-Per-Click Campaign Management, the companyhandles all aspects of online marketing for a portfolio of over ten-thousand satisfied clients. ...
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Is it time for a Nobel prize for managers?
Financial Times
Though he might not himself have considered management a task worth rewarding. Just before the Nobel dynamite interests were brought together to form the world's first international holding company in 1886 – with Nobel as honorary president – he wrote...
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Cain: The Godfather's years
Omaha World-Herald
1986 — Cain becomes president, chain has 725 restaurants, ranks No. 4; companyposts “a small loss.” 1988 — Restaurant numbers trimmed to 600. Cain, CFO Ronald Gartlan and other managers buy Godfather's from Pillsbury. Sales total $242 million. ...
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VacationRoost Launches Travel Desk for Property Managers
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“For years, we have wanted to offer these travel services to our guests,” said Michael Magliocchetti, President of Key To The Rockies, a property management companyin Keystone, Colorado. “The logistics, technology and effort required to effectively ...
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Boyden Executive Outlook: Strategic Hiring Continues Despite US and European ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
In the US human resources sector, Talent Executives who can serve as effectivebusiness partners with line managers to develop HR capital are a greater priority compared to executives focused on compensation and related areas, according to Greg Coleman ...
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Female leaders rising in numbers, clout at P&G
BusinessWeek
The company says 42 percent of managers are women, and they include some key corporate officers and six executives who run businesses as presidents. P&G CEO Bob McDonald has said that fostering diversity is a critical responsibility that delivers ...
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Theory of capitalism doesn't apply to executive pay, neither does the law of ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Many years ago, these money managers were typically low-key types, but the explosion in super money in the 1990s entailed a concomitant explosion in fundmanagers' fees and salaries. Suddenly this was a large industry, feting itself with awards and ...
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Sustainable Alpha: The view from Europe
Sustainable Business Oregon
By Paolo Sardi Paolo Sardi is a founding member and the CEO of E.Capital Partners, also known as ECPI, based in Milan. Sustainable Alpha features shared conversations with the best minds, portfolio managers and industry leaders working to maximize ...
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Aon, Zurich Team up to offer $100 Million Reputational Risk Coverage
Insurance Journal
In announcing the program at the FERMA conference in Stockholm, Aon's CEO, Greg Case, underscored the serious nature of reputational risk. “Eighty percent of Aon'sbusiness clients will suffer an event that will cause them to lose more than twenty ...
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Coffee Break: Delta tops survey of air carriers
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Delta Air Lines said Monday that it was named the best overall airline for the first time in a survey of corporate travel managers. The Atlanta-based carrier, which operates a passenger hub in Memphis, said it was the first time it came in first in the ...
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Is HR Strategic - Or Not?
About - News & Issues
Some companies do realize the importance of having HR as a strategic partner. There will always be difficult customers (managers), but that is with any field. Also, the stress level depends on the company and your passion. If you really love HR, ...
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About - News & Issues
Arista Networks Celebrates 1000Customers Worldwide
MarketWatch (press release)
"Arista Networks is becoming the clear choice for companies that want to build public and private cloud computing systems with the best available performance and advanced networking capabilities," said Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO at Arista ...
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The impact of high pay
Sydney Morning Herald
The share price might rise in the short term yet the effect of the CEO'sdecisions on a corporate empire which has endured for, say 100 years, can be marginal. Funds managers, she says, will regularly approve extravagant pay packages if shareholder ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Little-known Ross Aviation Operates 14-FBO Chain
Aviation International News
... the privately owned company's president and CEO. “We don't intend to be a stealth FBO chain, but what we have is a philosophy that we firmly believe in and that is FBOs are local businesses and are best run by local managers. ...
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Aviation International News
Free-trade pacts kill jobs and labor rights
San Francisco Chronicle
1: A typical pro-business study predicted in 1992 that NAFTA would create 130000 US jobs in two years, double US exports to Mexico, and create 609000 jobs there. Today, Tom Donohue, CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce, says the three new treaties also...
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CUSO Financial Services Gaining Investment Program Clients Nationwide
MarketWatch (press release)
These include: "managed programs" where program managers and investment advisors are employed by CFS; "dual employee programs" where both managers and advisors are employed by the credit unions but are licensed, registered and supervised for compliance ...
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Dombrowski, Leyland dynamic duo for Tigers
USA Today
By Leon Halip, US Presswire Jim Leyland (left) and Dave Dombrowski are the longest tenured manager-GM combo in the major leagues. One runs the front office with the polished mien of a corporate CEO. The other looks like the stereotypical baseball lifer ...
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USA Today
Automating Data Management while Facilitating Regulatory Compliance
Scientific Computing
Paul Pearce is CEO and Founder of Nova Biologicals, and Colin Thurston is Director of Product Strategy, Process Industries, at Thermo Fisher Scientific. They may be reached at editor@ScientificComputing.com. Automating Data Management while ...
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Scientific Computing
NITIE to host their annual corporate fest Lakshya 2011 this week
MBAUniverse.com
This Year the awardees are Shri Venu Srinivasan, Chairman & Managing Director, TVS Motor Company and Shri RC Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and CEO, RCB Consulting. This contest is meant from the practicing managers to showcase their ...
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Knowlagent Launches Productivity Plus Blog to Help Companies Improve Culture ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“Contact center managers are looking for ways to improve key business metrics and maintain a culture of excellence in their call centers,” said Matt McConnell, presidentand CEO of Knowlagent. “The Productivity Plus blog will share industry best ...
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Onward, Upward
CNBC.com
Others, including Sandra E. Peterson, CEO of Bayer's I loved learning that women turn out to be amazing hedge fund managers: Research shows that women generally make better money managers, and that funds managed by women significantly outperformed ...
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CNBC.com
Small firms take risks when stars invest
Tucson Citizen
HappyFamily investors, which include movie star Moore, as well as Rodriguez's and Madonna's business manager, Guy Oseary, “carry a certain amount of weight and respect, (which brings) additional networking that probably wouldn't be in my sphere,” says ...
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Incentives at work: what really works
Stuff.co.nz
Her research into the work practices of local government managers showed commitment came from an employee's self-esteem. "We thought it would be a commitment to their local community or to a local politician, but it was a commitment to professional ...
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Slow Money Offers Investing Alternative to Wall Street Protests
MarketWatch (press release)
Part venture fair, part farm to table celebration, part forum on the state of the economy, Slow Money is bringing together everyone from socially conscious hedge fundmanagers to family farmers. Their common task? Moving beyond protest against the ...
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Mother Nature And Management
Memphis Daily News
Managers, pay close attention to Mother Nature. She is a great managementconsultant and charges no fee to people who are simply willing to pay attention to her. Chris Crouch is CEO of DME Training and Consulting and author of several books on ...
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PerTrac and Leading Italian Hedge Fund Database, MondoAlternative, Join Forces
MarketWatch (press release)
PerTrac provides software solutions for investment professionals at the fund-level of investing including pensions, family offices, hedge funds, long-only managers, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, funds of funds and industry service providers. ...
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Art exhibition cum sale at KA
Times of India
Ajay Pande, business immigration officer, government of Manitoba, Canada, will speak about the business immigration programme of the government of Manitoba - a programme that invites business owners and senior managers to immigrate and invest in ...
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City Advertising Named to the Prestigious Inc. 500
PR Newswire (press release)
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (http://www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today's innovative ...
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Executives asked to take stock on salaries
ABC Online
In a memo to the top 900 managers in the bank, Mr Smith warned that there would only be a 1 per cent salary increase to be shared across the group. "For most executives this means that salaries will remain fixed for the next year with the limited ...
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AsiaInspection 2011 Q3 Barometer: With Rising Costs, Can China Keep its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
China's purchasing managers index (PMI), while down slightly in September at 49.4 from 50.9 in August, still suggests 12-13% annual growth by year's end. AsiaInspection figures also saw a 27.5% increase in inspections ordered within China ...
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BAe And Falko Continue To Support 146 Jetliner
Aviation International News
The business, previously part of BAe Systems Regional Aircraft (BAeRA), has been sold to affiliates of certain funds managed by [New York-based global investment-management company] Fortress Investment Group and now trades as Falko Regional Aircraft. ...
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Aviation International News
Fish & Richardson Installs Relativity Enterprise Wide
MarketWatch (press release)
Customizable Workflows -- Fish's case managers can build and automate custom workflows to enforce best practices and ensure the quality and speed of the review process. -- Security -- Relativity's security makes it easy for Fish's case teams to ...
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Motorola's 3LM unit launches Android enterprise security platform
FierceWireless
Wyatt, who had been corporate vice president of software and services productmanagement, now runs the company's enterprise business for handsets as corporate vice president and general manager of enterprise. In other enterprise mobility news, ...
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New CEO for Growth Management Queensland - Industry News ...
Growth Management Queensland will have a new CEO as the Queensland ...Executive Manager for property development and management company Mulpha , ...
www.qbr.com.au/news/articleid/76320.aspx
David Cheesewright Named President and CEO of New Walmart ...
Find news for: ... vice president, president and chief executive officer of a new regional management team. ... Cheesewright, most recently president and CEO of Walmart Canada, joined Asda, Walmart's ... "Since joining the company, David has been a champion for our customer, led innovation and delivered returns." ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=PR...
Bertelsmann C.E.O. to Step Down | First Business News
You are here: Home / Business News / Bertelsmann C.E.O. to Step Down ... ambitious executive who has been eager to prove himself as the top manager. ...
firstbusinessnews.net/bertelsmann-c-e-o-to-step-down/
Bethany Mayer Made Senior Vice President and ... - News on Women
HP (NYSE:HPQ) appointed Bethany Mayer Senior Vice President and GeneralManager of the HP Networking business unit. Bethany has been the unit's interim ...
www.newsonwomen.com/.../bethany-mayer-senior-vice-presid...
Baum out as CEO of Netezza - Mass High Tech Business News
The company will not be seeking a new CEO, a spokesperson said. ... the generalmanager, IBM Information Management, Software Division and Baum's former ...
www.masshightech.com/.../daily56-Baum-out-as-CEO-of-Nete...
PR disaster: Milk-deprived CEO is not a-moo-sed - Management ...
Read [Object title] and more leadership, business and management news, tips ...When Beckernam PR CEO Keith Zakheim discovered there was no milk in the ...
www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1096153/

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