The problem with insider obsession
If investors needed another reason to distrust the stock market, here鈥檚 a doozy. A study by a trio of researchers in the U.S. and Canada into聽insider trading聽found that one-quarter of the big merger and acquisition (M&A) deals over a 15-year period鈥攔oughly 460 transactions in total鈥攎ay have seen people profiting on information before it was public.
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Transcript: How Deutsche Bank survived the tsunami in Japan
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No prep, no clue. How I took the GMAT cold
The Graduate Management Admission Test, better known as the GMAT, is hard.聽The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is celebrating 60 years administering the test in 2014. Nine million tests have been taken since its launch in 1954, and GMAC says test-takers spend upwards of 200 hours studying for it.
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Are all insiders rogue traders?
Insider trading is a topic of intense public debate these days, but this debate must be framed in the context of a clear, objective definition of informed versus insider trading.
Feeling entrepreneurial?
鈥淧eople used to take a traits-based approach to defining entrepreneurs: they are risk-takers, for instance,鈥� says聽Greg Vit, BCom鈥�80, director of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. 鈥淏ut that characterization has been challenged by a more recent approach that suggests you can create the underlying conditions to help entrepreneurs emerge.鈥�
Extroverts - Tapping Your Inner Introvert Is A Key To Excellent Leadership
The CEO of a major multinational came to our 91黑料网 MBA CEO Insights class and told us that, as an introverted leader, he had to put on his 鈥済ame face鈥� whenever he left his floor. That is, if you want to be a CEO of a big company, you need to act like an extrovert, at times.
Appointments to VIA Rail Canada
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today announced the appointments of Ms.聽Melissa Sonberg听辞蹿听Montreal, and Ms.聽Deborah Robinson, of聽Toronto, to the board of directors of VIA Rail Canada, each for a three-year term.
Canada鈥檚 partnership opportunity
Canada has excellent universities: for example, our share of highly cited publications is nearly 10 times our share of the world population. We also have great companies, and according to a 2014 Bloomberg ranking, Canada is the second-best country in the world in which to do business. Over the last 15 years, our governments have put in place many new investments in research and development, as well as innovation-friendly policies.
Un associ茅 en M&A pour De Pardieu
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Die meisten Insiderhandler kommen davon
Ofter als gedacht wird illegal ve rsucht, vertrauliche Kenntnisse an der Borse zu versilbern.
EU elections and demography
You have heard about the 鈥渟eismic鈥�, 鈥渟hocking鈥� and 鈥渂ombshell鈥� results from last month鈥檚 vote in Europe for the EU parliament. Many traditional, centrist parties lost ground and in France and in the UK, anti-EU parties (the Front National and UKIP respectively) received the most votes (around 25% in each case).
Talking Management with Karl Moore: Transcript: What makes a company 鈥榮ustainable鈥�?
This is聽Karl Moore聽of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网, talking management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to a colleague from the London Business School, [Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship] Ioannis Ioannou.聽You have been looking at what is a sustainable company. What conclusions have you come to?
Manulife AM adds new global natural resources equity team
Manulife Asset Management (Manulife AM) has expanded its global investment capabilities by naming聽Craig Bethune聽and Diana Racanelli as portfolio managers on a new global natural resources equity team.
