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Signs of a Good CEO, Based on Buffett's thoughts
GuruFocus.com
It is essential that a CEO has interests in the company's stock and does not receive excessive compensation. If the top management is owner-oriented, fairly compensated, and has well-thought-out incentive plans, the consequences are likely to be ...
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Deutsche Bank Offers US Plans for Renting Foreclosed Homes
BusinessWeek
Daniel Mudd, chief executive officer of Fortress, took a leave of absence from the New York-based asset management company after being sued Dec. 16 by the SEC over his role as CEO of Fannie Mae from 2005 to 2008. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have drawn ...
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Taiwan-China Economic Pact Has Little Impact, CEO Survey Shows
BusinessWeek
27 (Bloomberg) -- A landmark trade and economic deal between Taiwan and China has had no impact on business, according to a survey of chief executive officers and managers. About 34.9 percent of Taiwanese business executives surveyed by Taipei-based ...
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PCV/VRM, BABA Announce Home Giveaways at the 2011 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The founder, owner and CEO of Vendor Resource Management and PCV Murcor, Keith D. Murray, has been intentional about helping revitalize distressed communities across the country. He established PCV¦VRM Seeds of Hope in 2009 to advance philanthropic ...
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BTS Group signs an agreement with Sodexo in Latin America worth over SEK 7 million
Reuters (press release)
BTS adds value to its clients through three practice areas: Strategic Alignment &Business Acumen, Leadership & Management, and Sales Force Transformation. BTS also has strong capabilities in Operational Excellence & ProjectManagement and offer an ...
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Mizuho Considers Buying Asian Investment Bank to Bolster Fees
BusinessWeek
The lender's expansion plans may also include allying with an investment bank, and purchasing asset managers and hedge funds in Singapore, India and Indonesia, Chief Executive Officer Yasuhiro Sato said in an interview. He also plans to increase the ...
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The secret sauce of managing 20-somethings
Economic Times (blog)
Ask how you can manage the managers of tomorrow, the 20-somethings of today, Ray Carvey, executive vice-president, Corporate Learning, at Harvard BusinessPublishing, narrates a story a friend told him. One of his neighbours lived down the hill and ...
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How to Identify Growth Stocks
GuruFocus.com
Another clue related to quality of management comes from Buffett's principle of circles of competence. When a retail company appoints a new CEO without retail experience, it raises a red flag about his or her potential effectiveness. ...
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JP Morgan Mutual Fund announces changes
India Infoline.com
Appointment of Managing Director & CEO of JP Morgan Asset Management India Private Limited: Mr. Christopher Spelman will cease to be the whole time Director &CEO of JP Morgan Asset Management with effect from the close of businesshours on 31 December ...
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Western Star to Host Second Annual 'Serious Trucks Challenge'
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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Training to help utility workers improve operations efficiency
nwitimes.com
Mike Shebel, manager of station engineering for the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., said power plant operators have to be vigilant monitors of plant conditions to ensure the highest level of heat is produced from coal. Managers and supervisors ...
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Om Productions LLC Launches New Reality TV Series "Sacred Spaces" with Filming ...
PR.com (press release)
He also served as VP/General Manager at KDOC-TV in Los Angeles, where he significantly increased revenues and ratings. As co-Founder and President of Local Television Network, the first television network in the US exclusively delivering local ...
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PR.com (press release)
Six Questions for Christopher Johnson
GlobeSt.com
He started the Ryan Wolf Kossar Foundation (RWK) and I served there and saw at the end of a golf fundraiser that we cut a check to a golf event management company for what I considered to be too much money. I turned around and said, “We're project ...
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GlobeSt.com
Steve Jobs' Grammy Is “Hypocrisy on Parade”
Digital Media Wire
Guest author Wayne Rosso founded Mashboxx, arguably the first open file sharing application to be authorized by the major recording labels, having previously been president of Grokster and chief executive officer of Blubster and Piolet's parent company ...
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Digital Media Wire
Hawker's Boisture determined to fight for Air Force contract
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Hawker contests this was due to the amount of time it took to get the proper notifications to the proper department managers. “We know we have the better airplane, we know we have the better business proposal for the Air Force, and we're disappointed ...
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Cloud Computing is Changing Many Job Descriptions
Forbes
There will be greater opportunities for enterprise architects, and some offshoots will include cloud architects, cloud capacity planners, cloud service managers and business solutions consultants. Jobs being created may not always bear the term “cloud” ...
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Want to read Algonquin CEO Robert Gillett's contract? Here it is
Open File (blog)
There is no accountability for how these contracts are arrived as most of the members of the Board of Governors are appointed on the recommendation of the incumbent governors who for the most part are CEOs and senior managers as well. ...
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Open File (blog)
Talent Management Trends in 2012
Customer Think (blog)
Too many CEO's now see especially in a service-based economy the importance of customer-centered relationships. Age Before Beauty – Many reports now state that pension and retirement income was diminished due to the recession. ...
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2011 uneventful, major reforms on the anvil
Livemint
The regulator is also contemplating increasing the fund management charge (FMC). Says Biswajit Mohanty, managing director and CEO, SBI Pension Funds Pvt. Ltd: “The indication is that FMC will be rationalized so that fund managersmake a small profit. ...
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Screed against modern management practices
Watching the Watchers.org
The article includes some interesting statistics, eg, Meanwhile [despite higher CEOcompensation per dollar of net earnings] real performance was declining. From 1933 to 1976, real compound annual return on the S&P 500 was 7.5 percent. ...
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Alison Levine proves she's all heart
ESPN
"It was the first time I've spoken about sports parallels versus business, but it was perfect for the Suns. I talked about how it doesn't matter what you've done on any past expedition, all that matters is how you are performing on the mountain now. ...
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Crystals at CityCenter Earns Top Design, Development and Environmental ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Leveraging MGM Resorts' unmatched amenities, the M life loyalty program delivers one-of-a-kind experiences, insider privileges and personalized rewards for guests at the Company's renowned properties nationwide. Through its hospitalitymanagement ...
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Violence against contractors hampers electrification goal – Nnaji
Vanguard
Nnaji also said that the attention of government has been drawn to some Business Managers who manipulated lists of staff on emolument and other entitlements and backdated their records in order to milk the system and directed that the CEOswould be ...
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Unique social networks for digital media companies
Calgary Herald
"Our social stock market at Empire Avenue heavily utilizes game mechanics, correlating social networking activity across the Web with [a] virtual share price," said company founder and CEO Duleepa Wijayawardhana. The app updated all activity in ...
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Dallas is home base to far-flung operations
Dallas Morning News (subscription)
Chairman Jim Hoak and company president and CEO Eric Van den Branden were living in Dallas when they started the company in 2003. “The whole professionalbusiness culture in Dallas is very favorable,” said Van den Branden. “It offers all we are looking ...
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Dealtalk: US antitrust bodies flex muscle as firms test limit
Reuters India
Martin Marietta CEO Ward Nye has said the company and its lawyers believe there won't be any significant regulatory impediment to its bid. But the source familiar with the department's thinking said the difference is some of the deals that pushed the ...
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Free Certification Training From CertSchool.com in the Latest Microsoft ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
... managers find the confidence to navigate the flexible and scalable platform of <org>Microsoft Project</org> 2010, to create their own powerful workmanagement systems.</p><p>CertSchool's lead instructor and CEO,...
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Graduates make the grade for SMEs
GrowthBusiness.co.uk
Business owners from five other countries contributed including the US and France. Worryingly, 15 per cent of managers thought their graduates had poor basic arithmetic skills and half believe their country's education system didn't properly support ...
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Digital space set to turn more active
Bangkok Post
Whatever was moved by the world's four major players _ Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook _ all have changed consumers behaviour, said company CEO Uraiporn Cholsirirungskul. Tablet has been continuously popular. The launch of iPad2 and several brands ...
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Bangkok Post
What I Learned From Shorting RIM
Seeking Alpha
Marriage is the closest thing in mind when it comes to the concept of "to love and to hold"; one cannot fall in love with the stock or the gadgets that the companyproduces (or the CEO's silver tongue). Just like in marriage, when it is not working...
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Last Week's Sale Provides Little Relief for Eastman Kodak (EK) Investors
StreetInsider.com (subscription) (blog)
Then last month, Eastman Kodak managers warned the company would need to raise $500 million in new debt or liquidate non-core assets. Although the companyannounced plans for the sale of its Eastman Gelatine Corporation business to Rousselot last week, ...
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BlueBacklinks Launches Most Accurate Backlink Checker
WebWire (press release)
However, manually checking backlinks can take forever, so web managers tend to make use of readily available backlink checkers online. Unfortunately, not every backlink checker claiming accuracy today works. In fact, only a few can really attest to ...
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Qatargas employees air grievances at meet
Peninsula On-line
The CEO of Qatargas, Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani, with other senior managersduring the Town Hall meeting. DOHA: Qatargas held its annual Town Hall meeting that provided an open forum for the staff to discuss the problems they face at the workplace ...
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HMV's dog tired, admits CEO - Leadership, business and ...
Is HMV becoming a broken record? Having issued four profit warnings already this year, the group has posted the kind of results this morning which could drain ...
www.managementtoday.co.uk/.../HMVs-dog-tired-admits-CE...
Health Management Associates Names Mike Fencel as CEO of ...
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HMA) today announced that it has named Mike Fencel as Chief Executive Officer of its North...
southflorida.citybizlist.com/.../Health-Management-Associates-...
Germany Will Help Europe Overcome Debt Crisis, President Says
... because taking an anti-European stance is “wrong,” said President Christian ...Lifestyle, Magazine, Management, Small Business, Technology, Top News ...
www.businessweek.com/.../germany-will-help-europe-overco...
Executive management changes set at CHS - Food Business News
Rick Browne, senior vice-president, grain marketing, has been assigned the ... he assumed management responsibility for the CHS Crop Nutrients business. ...
www.foodbusinessnews.net/.../Executive%20management%20...
Osman Perksoy Joins Telenity as Vice President ... - BUSINESS WIRE
Osman Perksoy Joins Telenity as Vice President, Product Management and ...helping operators overcome these challenges with its new and existing products....
www.businesswire.com/.../Osman-Perksoy-Joins-Telenity-Vice...
USA: The New York Times Company Announces Management ...
USA: The New York Times Company Announces Management Changes/CEOJanet Robinson to Retire at Year-End. Board Appoints Arthur Sulzberger Jr. as ...
www.publicitas.com/en/global/press.../news-detail/?no...
DeKalb debates CEO vs. manager | ajc.com
DeKalb County News 7:37 p.m. Sunday, December 25, 2011 ... of whether the county should scrap its chief executive officer in favor of a county manager. ...
www.ajc.com/news/.../dekalb-debates-ceo-vs-1274260.html
Health Management Associates Names Mike Fencel as Chief ...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HMA - News) today announced that it has named Mike Fencel as Chief Executive Officer of its...
finance.yahoo.com/.../health-management-associates-names-m...
Manoj Shenoy, CEO, EFG Wealth Management ... - Business Standard
It cannot get tougher than this. With global markets melting and every asset class straining, wealth managers are facing an uneasy task of managing HNIs' ...
www.business-standard.com/india/news/qa...ceo.../459669/
CEO Of First Capital Plus Wins Award | Business News 2011-12-21
Business News of Wednesday, 21 December 2011 ... attributed the award to “the doing of the Lord” and thanked the Management and staff of First Capital Plus ...
www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/.../artikel.php?ID...
December 14, 2011 News Release Company: Olympus Corporation ...
News Release. Company: Olympus Corporation. Representative Director,President and CEO: Shuichi Takayama. (Code: 7733, First Section, Tokyo Stock...
www.olympus-global.com/en/corc/ir/tes/pdf/nr111214_2.pdf
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