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Driving Lean Six Sigma Success in the Services Sector: Lean Six Sigma earned its reputation for rooting out costs and accelerating performance in the manufacturing industries, and now it's gaining popularity among services companies. [more]
2008 Brings IPO Slowdown: Although Visa Inc. secured the largest US initial public offering (IPO) on record, over $19 billion, the number of IPOs dropped 60 percent in 2008's first quarter compared to 2007's fourth quarter. [more]
More Shareholders Vote Green: Shareholder activism is motivating US companies to address environmental concerns, according to The Corporate Library's report "The Environmental Agenda Heats Up – Trends in Environmental Shareholder Proposals". [more]
Lessons From the RDE Tigers: Up-and-coming businesses from the rapidly developing economies (RDEs) have earned reputations as fierce competitors in the global marketplace; now a new study from The Boston Consulting Group looks at RDE-based firms that are having similar impact in their domestic markets. [more]
M&A Activity Dips Lower: With the economy in a slump, M&A activity has fallen to a four year low in 2008's first quarter, and investors continue to be highly cautious. [more]
Shareholder Withhold Votes: Do They Matter?: Director candidates are not always well-received by their shareholders, yet boards may not tally withhold votes, according to The Corporate Library's study "Shareholders Say No, Boards Say Yes". [more]
Hedge Fund Managers Work Hard To Keep Investors: Faced with redemption notices and the fact that hedge funds lost 2.8 percent in the first quarter, hedge fund managers are scrambling to keep their investors and alleviate their worries. [more]
Hedge Fund's Wild Ride in Russia: Hermitage Capital Management, at one time the biggest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, claims that it narrowly dodged a massive fraud attempt perpetrated with the active connivance of the country's Interior Ministry. [more]
Securities Suits Climb, Settlements Fall: The securities class action landscape last year was dominated by the mammoth Tyco settlement, but even excluding that $3.2 billion deal it was a good year for the lawyers. [more]
How to Integrate China into Your Supply Chain: China's competitive edge may be losing some of its bite, but global organizations can't afford to ignore this emerging mega-market. [more]
CFOs Circle the Wagons: Finance chiefs are adopting a defensive posture in response to the economic slowdown, notes a new survey from Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business and Financial Executives International. [more]
Survey: Climate Change Tops List of Emerging Risks: Global warming is the single biggest threat to business growth over the next 10 years, according to a survey by Business Continuity Expo 2008. [more]
Key Lessons for Newly Minted CFOs: The first three- to six-months of a CFO's tenure are critical to long-term career success, as this article proves by surveying 164 CFOs of various tenures to distill valuable lessons. [more]
Shareholder Pressures Bring Leadership Challenges: Shareholder groups that are disappointed with a company's financial results create pressures on corporate leaders such as those described by Pepsi Bottling Group chief executive Eric Foss in this Q&A. [more]
Are Overconfident Leaders More Likely to Commit Fraud?: Few executives make it to the top rung of the corporate ladder without a healthy ego, but as this article explains, overconfidence can lead managers to cross ethics boundaries and perpetrate fraud by boxing themselves in. [more]
Citigroup Will Pay $1.66 billion to Settle Enron Claims: The biggest bank in the United States has agreed to pay Enron Creditors Recovery Corp $1.66 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging that it helped the defunct energy firm mislead its creditors through improper accounting. [more]
Pharmaceutical CFOs' Shift in Focus: CFOs in the pharmaceutical industry need to shift their focus from defensive monitoring and reporting to partnering in an effort to drive growth and manage return, according to 74 percent of respondents in an Ernst & Young global survey. [more]
A Free Pass for the Bear Board?: Aside from chairman Jimmy Cayne, the members of Bear Stearns' board of directors by and large have escaped the media attention and shareholder outrage surrounding the JP Morgan deal. [more]
OECD Downgrades U.S. Economic Outlook: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has reduced its estimate of US growth from 0.3 percent to 0.1 percent for the first quarter of this year. [more]
Asian Players Muscle In On Global M&A: The world's merger-and-acquisition marketplace is heading for a sea change as new contenders from emerging economies step up their purchases of established firms. [more]