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Management gurus claim they were blindsided by toxic culture at Countrywide
iWatch News
Former Countrywide chief executive Angelo Mozilo and other former companyofficials, meanwhile, have disputed allegations that senior management bullied employees. “I always regarded myself as a CEO, not a dictator,” Mozilo testified earlier this year ...
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AdamsGabbert managers lead buyout from Bicknell
Kansas City Star
AdamsGabbert founder Jo Anne Gabbert turned over the reins of the company to Kruse in March 2010 and became president of Bicknell Family Holding Co. Gabbert is no longer with Bicknell. Bicknell Family Holding owns several investment management ...
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Selling Prince Fielder is big business
ESPN
The Seattle Mariners are a candidate because they need a big power bat and general manager Jack Zduriencik drafted Fielder out of high school in his previous tenure as Milwaukee scouting director. Toronto seems intrigued, but CEO Paul Beeston has ...
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Rypple Unveils Social Goals 2.0-The World's First and Best Answer for Managing...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Rypple Social Goals 2.0 is about real business execution. It's about delivering something managers and employees will actually use day-to-day to help them focus on what really matters." Rypple Social Goals 2.0 helps employees align their interests ...
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UK Regulator Seeks Future Fines for Managers in RBS Report
BusinessWeek
The FSA “identified a risk created by the perceived dominance of” Goodwin as CEOas early as 2003, the report said, adding that the bank's chief had developed a “challenging management culture.” “Taxpayers should never have had to rescue RBS,” Philip ...
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LotusLive Gets Social Project Management Tools
InformationWeek
"We did not invent, or reinvent, anything that people are not familiar with," said Alex Homsi, Trilog president and CEO. Microsoft Project is the user interface that a generation of project managers have become most familiar with, and Trilog has ...
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Looking for gold in water investments
Reuters
The company has more than 80 percent of the global market share in energy-saving pressure exchangers for desalination, but just 8 percent of its businesscomes from the United States, its CEO Thomas Rooney told Reuters. Although the United States is ...
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Technomedia Appoints Savio Pacifico as Director of Finance
MarketWatch (press release)
HR professionals use our solution to identify and recruit the talent needed to reachbusiness goals. Managers efficiently evaluate and reward the performance of their team. Employees develop the right skills and knowledge for their career. ...
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Hosting.com Launches DR to the Cloud Solution for Disaster Protection
MarketWatch (press release)
This solution enables customers who are seeking a solution for disaster recovery, while providing cost-effective business continuity and application recovery. The Cloud Replication solution leverages VMware vCenter(TM) Site Recovery Manager5 (SRM 5) ...
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FY 2012 is Coming: CEOs, Are You Measuring Innovation?
Business Insider
Earlier this year, Marty helped OpenView and it's portfolio companies when he led a Quarterly forum on Product Management. The purpose of the forum was to helpCEOs, Development leaders and Product Managers… …understand industry best practices in ...
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes the Unique Value Provided by Tridium Inc. to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO'sGrowth Team with ...
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Washington Wealth Management's Growth Continues—Adds New Team and Opens First ...
PR Web (press release)
Pacilio Wealth Management is the second family office business to utilize the WWM platform. Tony Sirianni, Founder and CEO of Washington Wealth Management, explained why his firm is an ideal solution for such practices, “An independent approach to ...
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PR Web (press release)
Executives To Watch
Workers Comp Forum
LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers, field operations president of Navigators ManagementCo., has made a point to say publicly that, despite the name, Navigators isn't just a marine underwriter. It's much bigger than that, as they say in Texas where Lowery-Biggers ...
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IDT's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Our managers and employees in this business have done an outstanding job executing pricing and costing strategies and continue to substantially increase our share of the international long-distance market. Wholesale Termination Services sales ...
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Finding Excitement in Challenges: Q&A With Dr. Russ Richmond, CEO of Objective ...
Becker's Hospital Review
[The CEO's role is] changing because the mindset of these institutions is shifting from a narrow focus on acute-care and fee-for-service to population management. We're seeing hospital CEOs become much more operationally and clinically focused. ...
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'Social purpose' critical for next generation of business leaders
Management Today
Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch believes these findings represent a real turning of the tide: 'While sustainability has become part of everyday business language, little has been known until now about the views of future leaders,' he says. ...
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Harmon.ie challenges Atos Origin on zero email stance
Works Management
"The volume of emails we send and receive is unsustainable for business," he says. "Managers spend between five and 20 hours a week reading and writing emails. They are already using social media networking more than search, and spend 25% of their time ...
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SutiSoft Announces a New Release of SutiInvoice, a Web-Based Invoice ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Company's leading edge enterprise/SaaS application software products range from business productivity solutions such as Electronic Signature, ExpenseManagement, Document Control Systems, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Security Solutions and ...
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Yelp brings small business reviews and opportunities to Oz
Marketing magazine Australia
Does that mean a business needs to have a paid Yellow Pages ad to be found on Yelp? No, Stoppelman tells Marketing. Anybody can add further listings through the website or mobile apps, and business owners or managers can set up a free account to ...
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Compatriot Capital Acquires 50 Percent Ownership of Village Green
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of its business plan, Village Green will invest $50 million of equity to develop and acquire approximately $250 million in apartment assets over the next 24 to 36 months, as well as to expand Village Green's third-party management business. ...
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Year of the Cloud: RightScale Reveals Top Trends From 2011 and Looks Ahead to 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
Developers, business managers and IT pros turn to the cloud because it solves their problems. If enterprises try to enable cloud consumption in a way that limits its availability or effectiveness, they will be doomed to fail. The only way forward is to ...
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For CEOs, Lessons From an NBA Legend
Motley Fool
On the court, however, Jordan's career with the Chicago Bulls provides invaluable leadership insight for investors and managers alike. Here are three leadership traits every CEO should emulate, revealed through the lens of an NBA legend. 1. ...
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CIOs grapple with instinct versus data-driven decisions
ITWorld Canada
Sanjay Poonen, president, and corporate officer of SAP's global solutions group, said the new year would see the launch of SAP's Business Intelligence 4x, which would be optimized for HANA. Business Warehouse for HANA and support for Hadoop will also ...
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Satmetrix® Adds Advanced Customer Experience Management Features for ...
RealWire (press release)
“With these new and enhanced features businesses are receiving baked-in best practices to help them build a successful customer experience using Net Promoter,” said Richard Owen, president and CEO of Satmetrix. “As a result, they will be able to easily ...
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Daimler Upset with Over-Eager American Oversight
Spiegel Online
But the company is not to blame for such crass treatment of its topmanagers. Daimler is operating under the strict supervision of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Department of Justice. The board of directors, under CEO ...
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Spiegel Online
Sequent's NFC platform takes care of the hard stuff, lets anyone tap into ...
VentureBeat
The company doesn't deal with NFC credential management, choosing instead to leave that up to existing credential managerslike credit car companies. In an interview with VentureBeat last week, Weinstein said that Sequent is the first company to focus ...
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VentureBeat
Business travellers most value free Internet and security from hotel properties
Travel Daily News International
Just under 100 hotel owners, operators and general managers from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Czech Republic were asked to rank what hotel amenities business travellers valued the most. Ninety percent of respondents thought it ...
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Travel Daily News International
Hotel Opening Processes in Greater China, An Analysis of Problems and Issues.
Jordan Directions
Based on the data from the study, however, a root cause analysis 04 was conducted that strongly suggests “no project management culture” and “management company modus operandi” are the key causes. This hints that unsuccessful projects are more often ...
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Amos 5, launched this week, aims for $60m annual revenue
Globes
Spacecom CEO David Pollack tells "Globes" about his company's $200 million investment in the Amos 5 communication satellite. "The launch was very moving, and afterwards we felt quite relieved. We allowed ourselves to raise a toast with the Russian ...
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Cambric Hires Natalie Steen as New Vice President, Sales and Marketing
PR Web (press release)
Since its incorporation in 1989, Cambric has become a worldwide leader in engineering. Cambric is a US company with engineering centers and customer-focused project managers around the globe. http://www.cambric.com Natalie Steen.
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PR Web (press release)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers appoints ING's Jan Straatman as CIO
HedgeWeek
... Straatman joined ING's European asset management unit as CIO in 2008 before becoming global CIO for that business. While there, he oversaw 800 investment professionals worldwide in 32 locations. Between 2006 and 2008 Straatman was CEO/CIO at Pearl ...
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VenyuCloud Virtualization Platform Accelerates Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
To meet the increased enterprise demand for virtualization and cloud solutions that defray operational costs, VenyuCloud gives IT managers greater control over the level of scalability needed while speeding deployment and virtual machine provision time ...
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Zoomlion Biggest Short as Bears Bet China's Building Binge Will Slow Down
Bloomberg
The company is considering acquisitions of machinery-makers in the US, Europe and Japan in part because the Chinese market is “too crowded,” Zhan, Zoomlion's CEO, said in the interview. Sany Heavy said on Dec. 6 it plans to build factories in more than ...
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Bloomberg
Is your password one of the worst 25 of 2011?
San Jose Mercury News
SplashData's primary business is developing productivity apps for smart phones. However, Slain says, "The fastest growing part of our business is to IT managerswho want to help their employees protect their records." He admits it's a competitive field ...
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Maverick Orders 350 New Freightliner Cascadias, Adds MTIS to Trailers
Truckinginfo
More > Telular Corporation has announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement to acquire SkyBitz, Inc. The combined companies will create the largest "pure player" asset tracking and management company in the world, Telular says. ...
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Facebook's $10 Billion Question
Wall Street Journal
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a decision to make. By virtue of its size, business model and popularity, Facebook is the rare company that doesn't need Wall Street to go public. It should press home the advantage and blaze a trail for ...
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Area banks hold more deposits but make fewer loans
Kansas City Star
Meanwhile, borrowers' underused lines of credit sit idle until business managers see a productive use for the money. “There's a lot of cash available when the need arises,” Barth said. A few area banks are posting loan growth. ...
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Kansas City Star
Tech Stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous Rank in Top 10
PCWorld
Barely a year into his tenure as Hewlett-Packard CEO, Leo Apotheker was ousted in September soon after announcing that the company would seek to spin off its $40 billion PC business, the largest in the world. Apotheker, who had been fired from SAP in ...
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Shareholder Group Expresses Support for CEO, Management, and ...
Shareholder Group Expresses Support for CEO, Management, and BranchManagers of Barrett Business Services; Group intends to make changes to the Board.
www.businesswire.com/.../Shareholder-Group-Expresses-Supp...
Media Square chairman and CEO lead management buyout | News ...
UK— Media Square chairman Roger Parry and CEO Peter Reid today executed a surprise management buyout of all the agencies that made up the marketing ...
www.research-live.com/news/financial/.../4006534.article
Former CEO Woodford quits Olympus board to call for new ...
Former CEO Woodford quits Olympus board to call for new management ... In a board meeting last week attended by Woodford, the company agreed to start reviews of ...... I guess you haven't read the news and the new charge under Ricoh… ...
www.dpreview.com/news/.../WoodfordleavesOlympusboard
Laura Lang Made Chief Executive Officer of Time ... - News on Women
Women in Business, Jobs, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in the News: News ...Inc. Kimberly Salzer Made Vice President and General Manager for Citysearch ...
www.newsonwomen.com/.../kimberly-salzer-made-vice-presid...
Black Hills Corp. Names New Vice President and General Manager ...
RAPID CITY, S.D., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Hills Corp.
www.redorbit.com/.../black_hills_corp_names_new_vice_pres...
BAE Systems Appoints Brian Sheridan VP & General Manager for ...
(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems annou. ... Contribute to Citybizlist, Share YourNews ... (BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems announced today that vice presidentand deputy general manager for the Intelligence & Security sector, Brian Sheridan, ...
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GE names new CEO of appliances division: Associated Press ...
Find news for: ... The company said Blankenship will report to Charlene Begley,CEO of GE's Home & Business Solutions division. ... Blankenship previously was vice president and general manager for GE Aviation's commercial engines ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP
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ASEAN News, Dec 13, 2011


Reaping benefits from free trade
China Daily
By Fan Ying (China Daily) The "ASEAN plus 1" collaboration not only launched an era of global collaboration marked by unprecedented cooperation, but it also raised the international visibility of ASEAN countries. In 2001, Chinese leaders envisioned a ...
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Chinese premier Wen to visit Myanmar, sources say
Reuters
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attends the ASEAN-China Commemorative Summit on the sidelines of the ASEAN and Related Summits in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali November 18, 2011. (Reuters) - China's premier will visit Myanmar next week for a ...
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Joint patrol targets crime on the Mekong
China Daily
"Based on these needs, China can indeed cooperate with ASEAN countries in a number of ways, either bilaterally, sub-regionally, which is shown in the Mekong cooperation, or multilaterally, which is shown in the China-ASEAN dialogue," Luo added. ...
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Sanctions On Burma Must Be Maintained - OpEd
Eurasia Review
Obama's America needs to add Burma to a list of countries – Vietnam, Philippines, India, Australia, and most of the ASEAN countries that recently sought stronger ties with the United States. Lying next to India and under the giant belly of China, ...
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And the streak goes on.
Philippine Star
Phase Two judges were Max Borromeo (Ford Dealer Principal), Conrado de Quiros (Writer and Columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer) and Neal McCarthy (Communications Director, Ford ASEAN). HFA 2011 also solicited the help of special judges who are experts ...
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News & Resources | News | ASEAN News
E-news; Press Release; Media Coverage; Speech; ASEAN News. Notice; Publications; Resources ... [2011.12.06] Daily Press Monitoring. Category, read, 25 ...
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China ASEAN News - Inside China Today
China ASEAN News Service from EIN News. ... (China Daily 12/ … ... At the same time, other Asean countries could learn from Thailand. … campuses in Spain, ...
china.einnews.com/news/china-asean
PIA daily news in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano ...
ASEAN news:First Meeting between ASEAN Secretary-General and President of... Germany's relations with each of the ASEAN countries and with ASEAN as a ...
www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=66796&y=2011...
ASEAN countries promote cooperation on securities exchange ...
At the on-going 15th CEOs meeting of the ASEAN Exchanges group in Hanoi, ...field were put under discussions, reported local daily Vietnam News on Thursday .
www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=754029...200
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