Acquisition
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First, firms with a high CEO pay slice tend to make worse
acquisition
decisions.
When such firms make
acquisition
announcements, the stock-market returns accompanying the announcement, which reflect the market’s judgment of the acquisition, tend to be lower and are more likely to be negative.
In keeping with industry practice, the pipelines would have to be built with a combination of internal research and in-licensing or
acquisition
of external innovation.
There is now legislation pending in the US Congress aimed at tightening the approval process for foreign
acquisition
of US firms, and a similar reaction is occurring in Asia and Europe.
Other great and independent countries, such as Japan, Germany, and Austria, have been subjected for decades to limitations on their
acquisition
of certain weapons and military equipment.
On the transfer side, they include retooling social safety nets to encourage
acquisition
of new skills and capabilities (conditional cash transfers are one possibility) and retooling social-insurance programs to eliminate adverse incentives and bolster their breadth and sustainability.
To gain access to opportunities and to the resources needed to succeed in the workforce, empowerment must occur throughout a woman’s life, from early childhood to school and the
acquisition
of in-demand job skills.
China’s leaders must improve labor-market flexibility and labor mobility; make land use, acquisition, and compensation more efficient; and build a more market-based financial system.
For example, in the past, making an investment meant purchasing a new factory or a new machine; it was the
acquisition
of a physical asset that appeared immediately in GDP statistics.
Accelerating environmental reviews, approval processes, and land
acquisition
can minimize the costs and delays that mount before ground is ever broken.
Many allies face the dilemma of either spending money on operations or investing in new
acquisition
programs.
But, while there is no substitute for appropriate defense budgets, we could get more from current spending levels, especially through a smarter approach to defense
acquisition.
Extra time and money has therefore had to be invested in the
acquisition
of these capabilities.
Whereas US law enforcement focuses primarily on monopolies created by acquisition, EU law prohibits the abuse of monopoly power regardless of how it is achieved.
For developing economies, the three key growth fundamentals are
acquisition
of skills and education by the workforce; improvement of institutions and governance; and structural transformation from low-productivity to high-productivity activities (as typified by industrialization).
The
acquisition
of medals, precisely because it gives so much satisfaction, has become the object of scientific inquiry and national endeavor.
Feeding this perception, some members of Congress are now exhorting CFIUS to block CNOOC’s proposed
acquisition
of Nexen, a Canadian energy company with holdings in the Gulf of Mexico, until China resolves ongoing disputes with the US over preferential government procurement policies and barriers to FDI by US companies in China.
Where land has already been acquired without such consent, and the
acquisition
is in dispute, Oxfam wants the corporations to insist on fair dispute-resolution procedures.
Iran’s
acquisition
of nuclear weapons is one route to proliferation.
Success should be measured according to impact on, say, the quality of education and skills acquisition, rather than according to the mandated level of public spending.
Given constraints on inter-sectoral labor mobility, stemming from barriers to skills
acquisition
and rigid labor-market regulations, the poorest workers have few options when such changes occur.
A tax could be imposed, say, at the rate of 90%, on the "excess" gains from the
acquisition
of state assets--e.g., on gains in excess of 10% cumulative returns on original equity investments.
Let’s be clear, the very existence of these weapons aggravates three global nuclear threats – from existing arsenals (accidents, miscalculations, unauthorized use, or willful use), from their proliferation to additional states, and from their
acquisition
by terrorists.
Almost by coincidence, one of the next sessions at the conference was led by Athenahealth, announcing its planned
acquisition
of…Epocrates!
Sustained economic growth requires, everywhere, the accumulation of physical and human capital, as well as the
acquisition
of technological capabilities.
After middle age, these abilities deteriorate substantially, making the
acquisition
of new skills increasingly challenging.
Their new products can use IBM’s and other mentors’ contacts with the much broader world, whether for strategic marketing alliances, the power of an IBM endorsement, or, ultimately, an
acquisition.
In early March – less than three months after the
acquisition
– Merck announced it would close down Cubist’s early-stage research unit, laying off some 120 staff and perhaps crippling its efforts to introduce new drugs into the pipeline.
The Japanese conglomerate Marubeni’s partial
acquisition
of the Omaha-based commodity-management firm Gavilon did not trigger the type of backlash that foreign imports or migrants often do.
First, nuclear-weapon states pledge not to transfer nuclear weapons or to assist non-nuclear states’ manufacture or
acquisition
of them, and non-nuclear states pledged not to receive or develop nuclear weapons.
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