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Research by Yale SOM’s Florian Ederer and Song Ma has shown that companies often purchase competitors, not to acquire their ideas and products, but to shut them down—a phenomenon that they have dubbed “killer acquisitions.” We asked them to shed light on a recent report suggesting that such an acquisition may be partially responsible for a shortage of ventilators in the United States.
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The human and business challenges confronting America from the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented. These global challenges have also emerged during a time when most companies have unfortunately given up nearly all of the traditional and effective “takeover” defenses like classified boards, have structural profiles that do not deter (and may invite) opportunistic attack and whose non-index fund investors continue to confront tremendous pressure to show short-term performance or face redemption requests.
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European Union countries set out competing visions of how to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic as the bloc continued its struggle for a united response.
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There is a dearth of British tech-companies listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and the LSE lacks a large, innovative tech-company such as Google. The UK Government has pinpointed attracting tech-firms to the LSE as a policy priority. However, the search for a ‘British Google’ has proved elusive.
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With the dual threat of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, financial markets in Canada and around the world have suffered heavy losses. As uncertainty looms, a variety of social and economic factors may result in activist shareholders looking to either regain the value of their investments or alter companies' business direction and strategy.
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Federal Trade Commission says 2018 deal turned the Marlboro maker and the e-cigarette startup into collaborators in quashing competition
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Statistics Canada reports the country’s merchandise trade deficit narrowed to $983 million in February compared with $1.7 billion in January.
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John Thornton, the executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corp., sold US$50-million worth of the company’s stock over the last three trading days, erasing half of his stake in the company.
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Canada’s largest banks and credit unions plan to start offering government-backed loans to small businesses by next week, speeding up the rollout of the new lending program under pressure to deliver quick support to business owners.
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As I write this, the government is directing emergency support where it is most urgently needed – to our healthcare system and Canadians affected by COVID-19. Nearly a million people have applied for assistance. We are in the thick of it, but once the greatest danger of this crisis has passed, the economy will need a serious boost.
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At least 36 companies in the UK have announced executive salary reductions
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Kevin Carmichael: World's largest asset manager could deftly pick up its eight new programs, allowing Stephen Poloz to monitor bigger picture
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The coronavirus crisis is, first and foremost, a health crisis. The Trump administration’s failure to take the threat of COVID-19 seriously—and our systematic, decades-long decimation of our nation’s public health infrastructure—has turned what may have been a public health challenge into a crisis for our health care system.
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As the coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) spreads across the globe, we are beginning to see the first major impacts on businesses, financial markets, and international trade and commerce, with analysts increasingly pessimistic about a near-term solution.
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Diversity introduces fresh perspectives and challenges old thinking. Learn how to create a diverse board of directors for your business, and find out how it can improve your bottom line.
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S&P Global today announced that it has named Dan Draper as CEO of S&P Dow Jones Indices effective June 15, 2020. He will replace Alexander Matturri who is retiring after 13 years of leading the index business.
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The proliferation of COVID-19 and the social distancing directives issued by provincial and federal governmental officials are causing Canadian public companies to look at alternatives to in-person annual general meetings of shareholders (AGMs) this proxy season, such as virtual or hybrid AGMs.
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Coronavirus-related layoffs trigger record-setting surge in jobless-insurance claims
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At the second meeting of the C.D. Howe Institute Crisis Working Group on Business Continuity and Trade on Tuesday, March 31, the group underscored the importance of government action to safeguard supply chains for critical goods – and address potential bottlenecks in the transport of goods by truck domestically and internationally.
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The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits shot to a record high of more than 6 million last week as more jurisdictions enforced stay-at-home measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic, which economists say has pushed the economy into recession.
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A major U.S. shale producer filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, the largest casualty yet of a global oil price crash.
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Tobias Adrian on the response so far, where the system is strong and risks to watch
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Co-founder Adam Neumann is expected to sue over the abandoned deal
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The financial crisis looks a better reference point than the Depression
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