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Univita Health Appoints David Willcutts President of Integrated Home Care
MarketWatch (press release)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Univita Health, the leader in providing home-based care management, announced today the appointment of David Willcutts as President and General Manager of Integrated Home Care, one of Univita's...
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WebOS Failure: Palm Insiders Blame Management
InformationWeek
Once acquired by HP, a number of webOS-invested managers fled the company, including Mercer and Matias Duarte, vice president of human interface and user experience for webOS. Palm insiders said that losing Duarte--who took a job with Google to work on ...
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Yum! Brands Chairman and CEO David Novak Shares Break-Through Leadership ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Novak shares the secrets of the unique "Taking People With You" leadership program he has developed and taught during his fifteen years at Yum! to thousands of managersand franchisees around the world. Whether starting a business, developing or ...
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People in Aviation: January 2012
Aviation International News
by Curt Epstein Michael Sweeney, CEO of United States Aviation Underwriters, retired at the end of December, but will continue as chairman until April 30. David McKay,company president COO, succeeds him as CEO. Mark Paolucci, Cessna's senior vp of...
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Tanzanian Royalty Exploration CorporationHires LHRoth Investor Relations
MarketWatch (press release)
... and hedge fund managers and an 800 number for shareholders and potential shareholders." Larry Roth, President of LHRIR, has worked in the investor relationsbusiness for close to thirty years as a former partner with Roth Investor Relations. ...
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ThinkBig launches online business education venture
Hindu Business Line
According to Mr Swaminathan K, Founder & CEO of ThinkBig, myBskool.com will provide management lessons using a 3-screen platform – mobile phone, tablet and PC, offering a 'complete portable classroom'. Elaborating on the technology, he said the company ...
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Hindu Business Line
CEO Communication: What Do People Experience When You Interact With Them?
Business Insider
I have also noticed that he has a set of senior managers surrounding him that are some of the best and brightest, and I imagine that they also really enjoy working with him. The interesting thing is that he can his staff focused in the right direction ...
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Why mistakes don't always kill your company or career
Globe and Mail
However, if the CEO changes an organization's incentive systems to give bonuses and career advancement to people who make mistakes that provide meaningful learning, then Mr. Schoemaker's prescriptions could indeed come to life. The business literature ...
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Globe and Mail
Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (VRTS) to Mark Third Anniversary With The ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (VRTS), which operates a multi-manager assetmanagement business, will mark its third anniversary as a public company when itsmanagement team and members of its board visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's ...
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UPI NewsTrack Business
UPI.com
3 (UPI) -- US manufacturing activity made gains in December with the pace picking up from the previous month, the Institute of Supply Management said Tuesday. The headline index (the Purchasing Managers' Index) rose from 52.7 to 53.9, as manufacturing ...
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PennWell Acquires Broadband Technology Report
PR Newswire (press release)
BTR's audiences comprise vice president-level engineers, staff engineers, technicians and managers at Multiple System Operators (MSO), Independent Operators (ISO), and IP/telecom companies. BTR is known for its weekly e-newsletter distributed to over ...
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How Dustan McCoy helped Brunswick Corp. survive the recession
Smart Business Network
“I think it's fair to say that as you look at our stock price, at one time we were around $2, not one of our senior managers in this company ever obsessed about that because we had the confidence we were doing the right thing.” Your best approach is to ...
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Sears turnaround will depend on tech, store upgrades, says CEO
Bangor Daily News
A former Avaya Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. executive who joined the Illinois-based company in February, D'Ambrosio is drawing on his tech background and telling managers to gather more information about customers' buying patterns and ...
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Effective Pay-for-Performance Strategies
Human Resource Executive Online
With talent management identified as the No. 1 focus of CEOs around the globe, according to PwC's 14th Annual Global CEO Survey in 2011, it's critical that employers weighing workforce strategies understand and apply the behaviors that enable them to ...
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MEGA Offers New Business Value for Enterprise Architecture Programs
MarketWatch (press release)
The MEGA Suite is the most advanced EA solution available today," explained Lucio de Risi, CEO, MEGA. "With this new release, we have optimized our solution even more, so that it contributes to business innovation and fulfills company and stakeholder ...
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Fighting The Kool-Aid Of Stock-Based Compensation: Q&A With Roger Martin
Forbes
Likewise in the 1970s the now-(in)famous '2&20' formula for private equitymanagers was born, giving the managers such a big chunk of the upside they created that it landed a slew of them on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. CEOs were the ...
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Forbes
Gary Conley keeps TechSolve lean and mean
Smart Business Network
Conley is president and CEO of TechSolve Inc., a 55-employee consulting companythat specializes in industries such as health care, manufacturing, and aerospace. Conley and his team at TechSolve help businesses find ways to improve operations and ...
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PEOPLE & NEWS BRIEFS [Franchising World]
Insurance News Net (press release)
Liberty Tax's General Counsel and Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs James J. Wheaton will serve a four-year term on the Council of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section. Pizza Inn President and CEO Charlie Morrison appeared ...
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Experts at OS33 Present Top 5 Drivers for IT Decision Makers in 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
Today's workforce needs to have all their IT tools accessible in one place, standardized across all their devices and networks, while IT managers need the flexibility to adapt to various users needs (ie CEO vs. Sales Team). ...
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KPN says its CFO will quit over dissatisfaction with new corporate governance ...
Washington Post
The main change to KPN's governance has been the establishment of an “executive committee” of 12 top managers to oversee operations — essentially an expanded version of the typical Dutch management board. The supervisory board is unchanged....
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Sean McDonald handles growth and change at Precision Therapeutics Inc.
Smart Business Network
If you have managers who understand where the business is going and why decisions are made, they will make good decisions themselves in support of that mission and that's what's so critical. We try to stay very much on top of what those changes are. ...
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Medical Protective Acquires Princeton Insurance
MarketWatch (press release)
Princeton's principal operations will remain in Princeton, New Jersey, and twenty-eight year employee Charles Lefevre will remain as President. Lefevre commented, "With MedPro/Berkshire's acquisition of Princeton Insurance Company now completed, ...
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Handful of IT exec jobs to see high demand in 2012
FierceCIO
Business relationship managers will also be sought. "Because of cloud and consumerization, in some companies the business can work directly with the service provider and get an app for their business without even talking to the CIO," Heller said. ...
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BancorpSouth Adds 3 to Little Rock Advisory Board
Arkansas Business Online
Brown recently retired as CEO of Arkansas Cardiology PA in Little Rock. She is a member of MedAxiom, American College of Cardiology, Medical Group ManagersAssociation, Cardiology Alliance Advocacy, Medicare Physician Advisory Committee and has worked ...
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The man who reinvented IBM
Sydney Morning Herald
The four questions, he explains, were a way to focus thinking and prod thecompany beyond its comfort zone and to make IBM pre-eminent again. He presented the four-question framework to the company's top 300managers at a meeting in early 2003 in ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Business briefs: N.C. economic index surged in November
Winston-Salem Journal
The merged company would be based in Raleigh, with Martin Marietta CEO Ward Nye acting as CEO, and Vulcan CEO Don James as chairman of the board. Vulcan's headquarters are in Birmingham, Ala. About 10 days after Martin Marietta made its offer,...
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In Germany, the Oxymoron of Mr. Du
Knowledge@Wharton
In Germany, tradition dictates that one must maintain formality in the workplace and address all coworkers -- from recent college graduates to the CEO of the company -- with the formal Sie. This norm is believed to create a necessary distance between ...
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Knowledge@Wharton
5 tips to improve your sales success in 2012
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
Segment your list by product fit or by geography, by industry or by the business title or role of each contact (eg, CEO, VP, Project Manager, etc.) Essentially, you are building a database, spreadsheet or other segmented list of targeted prospects by ...
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David Haynes drives teamwork to make Delta Dental of Missouri better
Smart Business Network
“For a number of years, there were limited choices in terms of dental benefit plans,” says David Haynes, the 113-employee company's president and CEO. “Delta was the premier choice. As the economy worsened, large health payers have started seeing ...
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IT managers are aloof, insular, says psychologist
ITWorld Canada
Do CIOs have the same characteristics of IT managers? No, they don't. They probably once, very long ago, started out that way, but anyone operating at the c-level has to be very agreeable with the CEO in order to stay in that elite group. ...
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ASK and you shall receive
Bangkok Post
The first is from Dhanin Chearavanont, CEO of the Charoen Pokphand Group. "From the Thai book Wisdom from Entrepreneur Minds by Ton-sa-kul Sui. The author quoted one of Khun Dhanin's success tips: "'Every time I travel overseas, I always visit smart ...
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Ethiopia discovers largest ever gold
NewsDire
The company launched its operations two years after its incorporation with a Russian trained mining engineer, Melaku Beza, as its founding chief executive officer (CEO). Acquiring the Awash Marble Factory from the state in 1993, which has an annual ...
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NewsDire
WSFS loses small-business-lending leader
The News Journal (blog)
Robert R. Tabas, chairman and CEO of the 15-branch bank, said Citino would play a key role in the company's efforts to shift focus toward “building partnerships with the small and mid-sized businesses whose ideas and energy will drive job growth and ...
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The News Journal (blog)
Ready to Try On Mr. Buffett's Shoes
Wall Street Journal
"There was no chance that any [top fund manager] would take the job," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at Columbia Business School. "They are well-established, their incomes would go down, they would lose autonomy, and they didn't want the ...
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PeopleAnswers Selected to Provide HR Solution to Improve Hiring Process ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BJ's human resources and hiring managers will also use PeopleAnswers as a guide for interview content. "In an industry driven by high volumes and low prices, PeopleAnswers will assist BJ's to recruit and select high quality candidates who will stay ...
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Secure Markets? Has the UAE's caution paid off?
Kipp Report
Chairman and CEO of Permal Group, Isaac R Souede, speaks of about the current investment strategies of global and MENA investors. Managersgenerally see the UAE as secure markets, with few of the difficulties faced by European sovereigns and financial ...
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Kipp Report
Who's who on Detroit's financial review panel
World Socialist Web Site
Shirley Stancato: Former Bank One senior vice president and current president of New Detroit. She shares the leadership of New Detroit with William Taubman, son of Michigan billionaire Alfred Taubman. According to Crain's Detroit Business, ...
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Enterprise Center Starts 2012 Off Strong
MarketWatch (press release)
If you're in business, and you've never attended a program at the Enterprise Center, put coming to one on your list of New Year's resolutions. The titles alone should entice North Shore business owners, managers and would-be entrepreneurs to take ...
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Open the channels of contribution | The Republic
The Republic
That's partly what keeps Shirley Engelmeier in business. As CEO of InclusionInc, a consulting firm, Engelmeier finds workplaces that are clueless about their employee retention challenges. “The No. 1 thing workers say is, 'Ask me. ...
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WTAS Promotes Three Managers in West Palm Beach
Sacramento Bee
These new Directors have shown us their client service and technical capabilities are above and beyond," commented WTAS CEO, Mark Vorsatz. Bollis, Chamlee and Murray are included in a total of eight promotions to Director across the firm's 14 offices. ...
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Sears turnaround will depend on tech, store upgrades, says CEO ...
By UnBylined
... results, and obituaries. The Bangor Daily News is your source for breaking news in Maine and up-to-the-second election results. ... A former Avaya Inc. and InternationalBusiness Machines Corp. executive who joined the Illinois-based company in February, D'Ambrosio is drawing on his tech background and telling managers to gather more information about customers' buying patterns and product preferences and to ramp up Web operations. “Everything starts with knowing what ...
Bangor Daily News
Chicago United Way CEO Thrall leaves post | Consumer | Crain's ...
Chicago Business News, Powered by Crain's Get Email News Alerts · Daily News · This Week's Crain's · News · Focus · Business of Life · People ... "It was a personal decision," Ellen Costello, chairman of United Way Metropolitan Chicago's board andCEO of BMO Financial Corp., told Crain's. Given the holidays, "we made a joint decision not to announce it until ... Jerry Angelo is out as general manager of the Bears. Sears hires the CEO of Brookstone as its chief merchandising officer. ...
Chicago Business News
RPT-UPDATE 1-Huawei CEO's message presages ... - Business News
Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:27am EST * Plan for rotating CEOs aims to ensure smooth transfer * Secretive Ren reveals two cancer surgeries in letter * Expansion plans ...
businessnewstime.com/rpt-update-1-huawei-ceos-message-pres...
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/
DeKalb debates CEO vs. manager | ajc.com
... of whether the county should scrap its chief executive officer in favor of a countymanager. ... DeKalb County News 7:37 p.m. Sunday, December 25, 2011 ...
www.ajc.com/news/.../dekalb-debates-ceo-vs-1274260.html
  
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