He has been selling incremental businesses over the last few months, including an employee-benefits joint venture the firm had with State Street Corp. (nyse: STT - news - people ), but doesn't seem ready to take the bold step of selling a major operation, like its Smith Barney brokerage division.
The EOWDC project is a joint venture with engineering firm Technip and the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
Thanks to an unusual joint venture between drug firm GlaxoSmithKline and the World Health Organization, a potent and affordable new malaria drug combo called Lapdap could reach the hospital within a year.
Dow Chemical is pursuing legal and other options against Kuwait for bailing on its multi-billion dollar joint venture with the chemical firm.
Among the top seven manufacturers, only one is Japanese Sony Ericsson, at fourth place (and that's a joint venture with a Swedish firm).
He wants to forge a joint venture with the mortgage firm, perhaps outsourcing some loan-servicing functions to Countrywide and also tapping its considerable expertise in the home loan sector.
It is a joint venture between the Australian property firm Westfield and the local developer Snoddons.
To tap into Saudi Arabia's oil and gas sector, Punj Lloyd has forged a joint venture with Dayim, a firm owned by royalty.
The application was made by the developer Sprucefield Centre Ltd - a joint venture between the Australian property firm Westfield and the local developer, Snoddons.
Once that happens, Nomura's Barker believes Akzo will either sell the American unit or combine it with another firm through a joint venture.
The In Amenas plant - a joint venture between state-owned oil firm Sonatrach, UK multinational BP and Norway's Statoil - has been operating since 2006 and has a production capacity of nine billion cubic meters per year.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project is a joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
His warning came after the chief executive of TNK-BP , the British oil firm's Russian joint venture, left Moscow over a dispute with Russian shareholders.
Two days later, Novell and Netscape Communications, a leading Internet-software firm, formed a joint venture called Novonyx, whose slightly improbable task is to get big companies to use both firms' (rival) technologies.
In Britain, Barclays Global Investors, part of the banking group, has become the world's fourth-biggest asset manager after acquiring Wells Nikko, an index-fund provider that was itself the product of a joint venture between an American and a Japanese firm.
The firm is part of a joint venture to build a new federal Veterans Affairs hospital to replace one severely damaged in the storm.
The firm, which is a joint venture between Finland's Nokia and Germany's Siemens, has said the restructuring program will involve cuts across operations worldwide.
Contrast that with Michael Calvey, a comanaging partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners a joint venture of Baring, a U.K. firm, and a local group of investors that includes Calvey.
Despairing of official help, the islanders have entered a joint venture with Unilever, an international consumer-goods firm, which may have enough cash and clout to pressure the authorities to curb the counterfeiters.
Venture firm GGV Capital does this with its joint China and U.S. approach to growth technology investing.
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The deal gives the Chinese state-owned firm a 51% stake in the joint venture, with Rio taking a 49% stake.
AMCI-Bandanna, a joint venture between a coal exploration company and a private equity firm, is the closest in terms of clearances.
With the money raised Dow has bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
With money raised by the sales, Stavropoulos and Dow have bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow, and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
The joint venture with Smith Barney is proving to be a saving grace for the firm.
Up to its ears in bad debt, Toho let the U.S. firm peel away 7, 000 of its brokers for a new joint venture while steering clear of Toho's existing liabilities.
Ovshinsky's firm didn't put in a dime but owns half of the joint venture and will get half of any profits.
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