2009’s most influential people in business ethics

Jack Welch's 'dumbest idea in the world’


What do a pharmaceutical sales representative turned millionaire whistle-blower, a corporate lawyer tasked with changing a bribery plagued global corporate culture, the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the murdered head of the Liberian anti-corruption commission and the head of the EU’s anti-trust commission have in common?
Post on IR Magazine website Dec 30, 2009
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NASDAQ OMX to cut losses in Dubai

Exchange sells stake in NASDAQ Dubai and takes $81 mn charge

The financial market meltdown in Dubai continues to impact investors beyond the Dubai real estate market. NASDAQ OMX announced last week that it will absorb an $81 mn pre-tax non-cash impairment charge as it sells its 33.3 percent stake in NASDAQ Dubai for $120 mn to the state-controlled Dubai Financial Market (DFM) less than two years after the deal launched.  
Post on IR magazine website  Dec 30, 2009

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Distressed sales to drive M&A in 2010

Healthcare eyed as most active sector, says survey

In a near unanimous consensus, 94 percent of middle-market M&A professionals expect strategic investments to accelerate in the first half of 2010 and lead to a pickup in deal activity, according to the latest semi-annual survey of deal makers released by the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Thomson Reuters.

As posted on IR Magazine Dec 22, 2009

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Going Dark -- Why Companies go Private

Gander Mountain: Case study in challenges facing small public companies


By Brad Allen
Published on www.MinnPost.com

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009

Despite a dramatic turnaround in earnings, Gander Mountain intends to go private after a nearly six-year run as a public company. The reality: It simply doesn’t fit the current market’s public model.

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