In this case, Reid and Mr Whyte knew one another well and frequently drank in one another's company.
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If your net worth is almost all in one company's stock and options, you may need a planner, or at least a tax specialist, to find a tax-efficient way to diversify.
He wrote in a note on Wednesday, "We view this quarter as one of significant peer underperformance, in complete contrast to the company's outperformance in 1Q08, leaving one to wonder: "Which is the real Morgan Stanley?
In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.
Even more surprising was the decision in February of the federal and Alberta governments to charge Syncrude, a large tar-sands processor, with offences under environmental and bird-protection laws for the deaths of 500 ducks in one of the company's tailing ponds last April.
The squabble has its roots in a series of transactions beginning in 1996, when Clayton, Dubilier rolled up the 130 partnerships that owned Kinko's into one company in exchange for a 27.5% stake and effective control.
Yes, sometimes it's hard to learn just where in a company's business plan one fits.
The RP-VITA, a 5-foot remote-presence robot that doctors control with an iPad from miles away, is already deploying to six hospitals in the U.S. and one in Mexico in partnership with telemedicine company InTouch Health.
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Ford, who is the great-grandson of the automotive pioneer who founded Ford 99 years ago, took over the company a year ago, and his tenure has coincided with one of the bleakest in the company's history.
Sunday's fracas was one of the largest outbreaks of unrest in the company's almost 40-year history.
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"This is the busiest drill campaign for any one area in the company's history, " he said.
If there's one company in Scotland well placed to achieve the goal of being both a global player and a global consumer brand, it's probably Skyscanner.
It's not unheard of for competing car companies in the West to strike deals whereby, say, one offers to the other a license on one technology in exchange for a license to use one of the second company's technologies.
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"Paul Otellini has been a very strong leader, only the fifth CEO in the company's great 45-year history, and one who has managed the company through challenging times and market transitions, " said Andy Bryant, chairman of the board.
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One bright spot in the company's operations has been its Asian businesses, such as Yahoo!
With chronic instability comes a shift in loyalty from the company to one's own calling, skills and personal life.
Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, is being sued by GE Healthcare after he suggested at a conference in Oxford that one of the company's drugs might have potentially fatal side-effects.
Enel, Italy's biggest power company, was one of the winners in the epic fight for Endesa, Spain's energy giant, earlier this year.
In August 2000, a ruling cut three years off the patent for Prozac, Eli Lilly's hugely successful antidepressant, causing the company's shares to drop by 30% in one day.
One new device, which Cisco calls the "Media Experience Engine, " lives in a company's data center and translates video data from one format to another so that it can be displayed on anything from a smart phone to a telepresence screen.
DeNA says the company is part of its strategy to become a well-known game developer in the U.S., so it must see something in the company beyond a one-hit wonder.
The chief executive of one phone company profiled in the Journal's story, Working Assets Inc.
The risk is particularly acute in geographic areas where there's only one company offering broadband service to consumers.
Kersten Zhang in the Journal's Beijing bureau says one company making clothes for Ralph Lauren is Hong Kong-based Luen Thai, which has operations in southern China.
The latest comments come after Indian tax officials in January raided a Nokia manufacturing facility in Chennai in southern India, one of the company's largest plants.
Furberg has co-authored epidemiologic studies that showed problems for Bextra, and he was the harshest Pfizer critic on the panel--at one point saying inconsistencies in the company's data submissions smacked of dishonesty.
However, some potential buyers may be wary after the US International Trade Commission issued a ruling in May saying that one of the company's "preview image" patents was invalid because of its "obviousness".
Of the six biggest automakers in the U.S. market, Nissan was the only company with only one car or truck in the Top 20 biggest-selling models in 2012.
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Cincinnati Financial, headquartered in Fairfield, OH, is one of the top 25 property and casualty insurers in the U.S. The company operates through the Cincinnati Insurance Company, which itself has four insurance subsidiaries, and through two financial services subsidiaries.
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