It backed out of a plan to buy networking-gear maker 3Com in 2007 when the deal faced opposition form a U.S. security panel.

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Medtronic, a medical-device maker, began offering its employees this sort of plan, along with more conventional managed-care coverage, last year.

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But when his "Nissan Revival Plan" worked -- he resurrected the car maker from near bankruptcy a year earlier than scheduled -- he became a hero.

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The largest independent shareholder in PC-maker Dell has vowed to oppose a plan by its founder, Michael Dell, to buy back the company.

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Blackstone said it is open to keeping Michael Dell as chief executive of Dell under the private-equity firm's plan to gain control of the computer maker.

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But as she enters the final year of her three year business plan, Janet realises the party is over and turning a fledgeling business into a profit-maker in the depths of the recession isn't going to be easy.

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Such success prompted the company, now the third-largest memory chip maker in South Korea and among the world's top 10, to plan its IPO in hopes of becoming a stock market darling too.

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