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CEOs: Burning bright or burning out?
CNN
Most CEOs are at the mercy of their diaries, their businesses, the press and their shareholders. With the western economies entering a long, hard winter, and the rising competitiveness of eastern businesses, CEOs in western countries face some of the ...
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Alfa Laval's Capital Markets Day -- Summary of the Business Updates
MarketWatch (press release)
LUND, Sweden, Nov 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alfa Laval's Capital Markets Day, held today in Copenhagen, Denmark, started with a presentation by Lars Renstrom,President and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group (sto:ALFA). He announced a new organization, ...
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Concordis Group, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Advance Underwriting Managers, LLC
MarketWatch (press release)
Trent S. Sommerville, Chairman and CEO of Concordis Group, Inc. stated, "We are pleased to announce we have completed the acquisition of Advance UnderwritingManagers, LLC, which broadens the services we offer and creates additional long-term value for ...
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Vale Proposes Tito Martins as CFO in Management Reshuffle
BusinessWeek
Ferreira took over on May 22 after former CEO Roger Agnelli's mandate expired. Brazil's government, which holds direct and indirect stakes in Vale, repeatedly criticized thecompany for not spending more on domestic steel and fertilizer production to ...
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Northwestern Memorial highest-paid Chicago hospital CEO in 2010
Crain's Chicago Business
The U of C Medical Center paid a combined $7.9 million to its top managers in 2010, including severance for James Madara and $818000 to interim President Ken Sharigian. “Dr. Madara's annual compensation, as well as his compensation upon departure, ...
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Small businesses were caught in the Occupy crossfire
Globe and Mail
But the other one isn't altogether false: It's obscene that bankers, fundmanagers and other corporate executives – particularly in the financial sector – continue to be paid outlandishly high compensation packages and bonuses. ...
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Globe and Mail
Township Manager Leonard Honored as 'First Responder of the Year'
Patch.com
Upper Dublin township manager Paul Leonard has been working in emergency response for nearly 30 years. By Jaimi Gordon (L to R) Greg Breyer, Fire Services Administrator; Eric Clauson, Fire Chief; Paul Leonard; Rick Echevarria, President Ft. Washington ...
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GOP and Chamber of Commerce's War Over the Bulletin Board
Huffington Post (blog)
Wal-Mart and other employers require workers to attend meetings on work time during which company managers give anti-union speeches, show anti-union films, and distribute anti-union literature. Unions have no equivalent rights of access to employees....
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American States Water CEO to Present at NYSSA and Wall Street Institutional ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Sprowls is scheduled to present to an audience of analysts and portfolio managersat 12:05 pm Eastern Time. Live webcasts and replays of the presentations and copies of the presentation materials will be available on the Company's web site, ...
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Daymark Realty Advisors Makes Major Strides Toward Bolstering Investor Relations
MarketWatch (press release)
According to Todd Mikles, CEO, Daymark's leadership team is implementing an aggressive business plan to focus on stabilizing and recapitalizing Daymark properties, allowing them to survive in this challenging economic market. ...
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Netsuite "SuiteAcademy" Program Graduates Cloud Computing to Higher Education ...
Sacramento Bee
As the demand for cloud-based business management solutions grow, tomorrow'sbusiness leaders must be ready to hit the ground running with an understanding of the cloud computing revolution. "SuiteAcademy enables business and accounting programs to ...
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Procter & Gamble CEO, John G. Smale, Dies
Beacon Equity Research
Smale, who also served as the Chairman, joined the company in 1952 after responding to a newspaper advertisement in Chicago which was looking for brand managers. Starting with the dental and toilet goods division at that time, later he was credited ...
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Beacon Equity Research
Autonomy Wins techMARK Achievement of the Year Award
Sacramento Bee
The Awards attract CEO's and FD's of the fastest growing technology companies plus investment bankers, fund managers, analysts and corporate advisors. The event holds an annual charity collection and to date almost £100000 has been raised for a number...
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Power Assure Receives Strategic Investment from Dominion Resources
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Power Assure(R), Inc., a data center energy management solutions provider, today announced that Dominion Energy Technologies, Inc., an affiliate of Dominion Resources, one of the nation's largest ...
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Florida Micro, Inc. Sales Exceed $35 Million for 2010
MarketWatch (press release)
Florida Micro is an IT company, focused on technology solutions for business, government and education. Florida Micro was founded in 2002. Daniel S. Jacobs,President and CEO of Florida Micro, Inc. said, "The investment community and our shareholders ...
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J.McLaughlin Receives Majority Investment From JH Partners and the Highland ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The existing management team, which includes co-founders and brothers Jay McLaughlin and Kevin McLaughlin, as well as Steven Siegler, CEO, will continue in its current role and will retain a minority interest in the business moving forward. ...
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Herman Cain's Aquila Dealings Undercut His Business Acumen Claims
Daily Beast
This Daily Beast investigation opens a new window into the business life of a candidate suddenly fading in the polls, and it is one dramatically different from the tough-guy, “CEO of self” posture that Cain takes in his new book, This Is Herman Cain. ...
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Daily Beast
ForeSee Receives Local Awards
Sacramento Bee
Because ForeSee's superior technology and proven methodology connect the customer experience to the bottom line, executives and managers are able to drive future success by confidently optimizing the efforts that will achieve business and brand ...
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The CEO is also a part-time HR manager
Economic Times
Most CEOs, unfortunately, get boxed into a compensation structure HR tells them to follow. Another area of CEO focus is the area of creating the organisation's culture. Culture is a fluffy thing, but it's the oxygen a company breathes. ...
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MDI's National Management Convention, Delphique'11 concludes
CoolAvenues
Rajendra Singh, CEO, DLF CSR Foundation and Prof. VK Gupta, Director,Management Development Institute. The IT Panel with Keane as its knowledge partner looked into the history, current happenings and the socio-political implications of Impact of ...
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New report links costly extreme weather to climate change
The Hill (blog)
Some farmers' insurance rates are climbing as a result, according to Climate Corporation CEO David Friedberg, whose company insures farmers across 24 states. “Farmers are having to spend more of their operating budgets to insure themselves, ...
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NoSQL technology gains channel support
SearchITChannel.com
The NoSQL database software company works with consultants who develop industry-specific applications on top of Couchbase, noted Bob Weiderhold, the company's CEO. In addition, the company is building alliances with vertically-minded OEMs in military ...
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Excel Funds Hosts the Canadian Investment Industry in Brazil
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
"Brazil is a flourishing country with a thriving market that is poised to become a global leader in the medium to long term," said Bhim D. Asdhir, President and CEO of Excel Funds Management Inc. "It is quickly becoming the new land of opportunity and ...
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Facebook complaints: Companies are asleep at the wheel
Fortune
A Safeway rep contacted local managers and first determined that it wasn't stocked, but then tracked down a store where it was for sale. All of these conversations were posted on Safeway's Facebook page for the all the world to see. ...
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Business News in Brief
The Daily News of Newburyport
29 at 5:30 pm, Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, NH, features Jacalyn ES Bennett, president and founder of Bennett and Company sharing an inspiring story of how she became one of the country's top designers building a business and successful...
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NATSO and WPMA Tap the Power of Partnership
Truckinginfo
More > The Truckload Carriers Association conducted several business meetings in conjunction with the American Trucking Associations' Management Conference & Exhibition at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, over the weekend. ...
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InVivo Therapeutics to Present at 23rd Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
(otc/bb:NVIV), a developer of groundbreaking technologies for the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI), today announced CEO Frank Reynolds will present InVivo's most recent breakthroughs and provide a business update to potential investors during ...
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Advanced Spatial Technologies to Deliver FM:Systems Lifecycle BIM Solution in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Autodesk in Australia recently recognized Advanced Spatial technologies Pty Ltd as a preferred industry partner for facility management solutions in the Australia and New Zealand region. ASt, an FM:Systems international business partner, ...
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The Meaning of Bobby V.: What Valentine's interview says about Sox'...
WEEI.com
WEEI has all your Hot Stove information including business coverage of player &manager moves... On Monday, Bobby Valentine became the sixth Red Sox managerial candidate to meet the media following a daylong interview process. ...
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Eight Indians figure in world's top 50 Management Thinkers list
India Today
Govindarajan has also worked with Jeff Immelt, chief executive officer (CEO) of GE, to produce the Harvard Business Review article 'How GE is Disrupting Itself'. The article, written with Immelt and long-term collaborator Chris Trimble, introduced the ...
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India Today
The corporate responsibility challenge in Israel
The Guardian (blog)
Thus, integrating the concept of fairness into business will be at the root of our work over the coming months. Second, empowerment of CSR and sustainability managers. Too often, we've let ourselves settle into a groove where the practice of CSR boils ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Bocada Hosts ESG Webinar on Challenges of Effectively Managing Backups in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Bocada is a VMware Elite Partner, providing market leading data protection servicemanagement solutions to transform the way companies deliver data protection services to achieve greater business and IT alignment, maximize operational efficiency,...
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Are you driving your best people away?
NewsDay
The legendary Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric once said that much of acompany's value lies “between the ears of its employees”. How many times have you heard managers proclaiming that “employees are our most important asset? ...
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DriveCam Accelerates Growth with New Funding and Strategic Acquisition
Truckinginfo
"We've dedicated many years to building a business that is an industry leader, recognized for great customer service," stated Greg Lofy, CEO of RAIR. "In DriveCam, we have found a strategic partner that shares our commitment to high-quality service and ...
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Big Payouts for Tech Startups Excite Silicon Valley
NewsFactor Network
What they'll do with their riches is anyone's guess, but luxury retailers and wealthmanagers say they're expecting a bump in business and have been preparing for this new crop of Internet millionaires. "We anticipate more activity over the next few ...
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Wyse Expands Cloud Client Computing Portfolio With Trellia Acquisition
Channel Insider
"Business users are quickly embracing smartphones and tablets and making them one additional window into corporate applications and content; but their IT counterparts must now find tools to effectively secure and manage them," said Giovanni Forte, CEO ...
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CEO, top Sarasin managers resist Baer takeover - paper - Business ...
ZURICH (Reuters) - Twelve top managers at Swiss private bank Sarasin , including its Chief Executive Joachim Straehle, have written a letter to the bank's board ...
www.searchandgo.com/.../ceo-top-sarasin-managers-resist-bae...
UBS names Ermotti as CEO, who says strategy will focus on wealth ...
UBS has confirmed Sergio P Ermotti as the company's new CEO while nominating Axel Weber as chairman, in a bid to reassure investors as shares continue to ...
www.londonlovesbusiness.com/news/ubs.../1040.article
Esprit Names Adidas Manager China CEO as Europe Sales Drop ...
Esprit Holdings Ltd., the clothing retailer that lost more than 47 percent of its market value in two months after saying it “lost its soul,” hired an Adidas AG ...
www.businessweek.com/.../esprit-names-adidas-manager-china...
John Smale, Former CEO of P&G and Chairman of GM, Dies at 84
Mr. Smale instituted the category-management system in which general managersover multiple brands would begin to take precedence over the company's ...
adage.com/article/news/john-smale-ceo-p-g.../231111/
Octagon Entertainment Signs Daughter of President and CEO of ...
Octagon Entertainment Signs Daughter of President and CEO of Formula OneManagement Petra Stunt. Octagon Entertainment Adds Business Woman and ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=PR...
10 Tech CEOs Who Should Be Replaced Pronto - IT Management ...
IT Management - eWeek ... IT Management News & Reviews arrow ... Research In Motion's co-CEOs are bringing the company down by focusing on the past, ...
www.eweek.com/.../10-Tech-CEOs-Who-Should-Be-Replaced...
Revenue Cycle Management and Medical Claims Management News
ZirMed news related to revenue cycle management, medical claims management , heatlhcare claims clearinghouse solutions and services.
https://public.zirmed.com/.../ZirMed-Announces-New-Vice-Pr...
UPDATE 1-CEO, top Sarasin managers resist Baer ... - Reuters
Sarasin management against Baer takeover - paper* Baer reportedly offering 39 Sfr per share ... Related Quotes and News. Company. Price. Related News ...
www.reuters.com/.../sarasin-baer-idUSL5E7MJ09F20111119
New to town: Valerie Dodd, Vice president/general manager ...
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