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Companies Better Off Hiring CEO From Within?

"When it comes to strategic change, outsiders typically are good at doing the rapid cost cutting and divestment. As tenure increases, obvious opportunities for cost cutting and divestment dry up."

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SAP tries to get happy

CEO abruptly resigns amid customer dissatisfaction and poor employee morale.

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B of A settlement: Where's the beef?

Deal requires several governance policies, but none dramatically change the balance of power between shareholders and directors.

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Same bankers, new jobs

The financial services industry recycles the same old faces.

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Lousy recovery rates for defaulted loans and bonds in 2009

Secured creditors made out particularly poorly, highlighting weak underwriting and changing capital structures.

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Reason for hope on jobs

How to explain a rise in employment despite more job losses? Don’t blame a decline in the labor force.

Decline in angel investing bodes badly for economy

The approximately 300 angel groups in the U.S. are considering a smaller number of startups for investment.

B of A case shows corporate lawyers between a rock and a hard place

What right did former CFO Joe Price have to fire bank's counsel Timothy Mayopolous?

Cisco offers clear signal in murky recovery

Tech giant adding up to 3,000 jobs as businesses open their wallets again and spend on technology and services, says CEO John Chambers.

Guess what. Investors like bailouts

Another market rally that is cause for concern.

Trouble in the IPO world

At least three companies scheduled to go public this week delayed their offerings after three others were pulled last week.

Today in Banking Bull$#*!

Did Bank of America's board think it was buying Lehman? Did J.P. Morgan collude with Santander over troubled banks? Did J.P. Morgan set the bar for Goldman's CEO's pay package?

Bankers driving too fast? Hand over that license

The Brits show bureaucrats can be mightier than banks if they want to be.

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