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Man Sets Hotel Fire To Avoid His Wedding: A Japanese man tried to get out of his wedding by setting fire to the hotel where the ceremony was supposed to take place. [more]
Birth Order May Affect Career Choices: According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, birth order seems to affect people's career choices. [more]
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Finance Performance: The Road to Efficiency and Effectiveness: Is it possible for CFOs to strike a balance between holding down the cost of the finance function and improving its service delivery? [more]
A Whole New Offshore World: As the economy slows, more and more companies will be turning to services globalization to provide the rapid SG&A savings they need. [more]
Build a Performance Management Culture: Companies looking to develop a business performance management (BPM) system should start with advice from an expert, which is what this Business Intelligence Journal’s “BI Experts’ Perspective” article provides. [more]
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo: Microsoft Corp has surprised Yahoo Inc with a bid of over $44 billion, or $31 per share, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says he won't take "no" for an answer. [more]
Internet Crashes on Two Continents: Are your disaster preparedness plans up to this? [more]
Joint Venture Revival: The combination of a weak economy and eager businesses is likely to increase joint venture (JV) activity in 2008, according to KPMG International. [more]
Banco Wal-Mart's Mission: Wal-Mart de México has opened its first consumer bank in Toluca and intends to open 80 more this year. [more]
The Credit Crunch: How We Got Into This Mess: The tightening credit market is a double whammy for corporations, reducing access to the funds they need to finance growth and at the same time constricting demand for their products and services. [more]
Insider Trading "Safe Harbor" Under Scrutiny: The SEC is stepping up its investigation of insider trading, and an important focus is 10b5-1 stock selling plans. [more]
How to Recession-Proof Your Business: The prognosis for the US economy in 2008 is still unclear, but optimists are becoming harder to find. [more]
PCAOB Approves New Auditing Standard No. 6: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has ratified Auditing Standard No 6, Evaluating Consistency of Financial Statements, which should pair well with SFAS No 154. [more]
Securities Class Action Suits Rise: Securities class action (SCA) filings rose 43 percent in 2007 and may continue to rise in 2008, according to The Corporate Library study "Predicting Securities Litigation: 2007 Year-End Report. [more]
MBA Doesn’t Guarantee Entrepreneurial Success: MBAs used to be seen as a must-have for entrepreneurs, but times have changed according to a recent survey -- 70 percent of small business owners reported that they don’t think the degree is critical for entrepreneurial success. [more]
Recession Fears Crush CEO Confidence: Only 35 percent of North American CEOs are confident about business growth, while 73 percent of Chinese and 90 percent of Indian CEOs are very confident about growth prospects in the next 12 months. [more]
Don't Feel Too Sorry for the Banks: Banks are doing penance for their part in the subprime fiasco in the form of writedowns, profit hits, and lawsuits, but the industry's future is decidedly rosy. [more]
Delving Deep Into Equity Incentives: Under pressure from market forces on the one hand and regulatory mandates on the other, the role of share-based compensation in companies' overall rewards mix is evolving rapidly worldwide. [more]
Rogue Trader Costs French Bank $7.1 Billion: Société Générale, the second largest bank in France, has revealed that a rogue trader defrauded the bank of 4.9 billion euros ($7.1 billion). [more]
Risky Business: The Top Threats for 2008: Reputational risk zoomed onto corporate radars last year as the Mattel debacle unfolded. [more]
CEOs Pick Their Favorite States for Business: For the past three years the results of Chief Executive magazine’s annual "Best & Worst States" survey have been the same -- Texas and Nevada are the best places to do business and California and New York are the worst. [more]
Fed Slashes Interest Rate: The Federal Reserve has cut the federal funds rate from 4.25 percent to 3.5 percent in an effort to thwart recession after Monday's global stock market plunge. [more]