The Birmingham News Takeover professor says hostile targets usually attract additional offers A top hostile takeover expert said today that companies targeted for hostile takeovers such as Vulcan Materials Co. usually wind up receiving subsequent offers.
Jakarta Post Boston-Bali youth work on social projects Seven students from Boston and Bali grouped in Yowana Kencana Intelligent Youth started their compelling presentation on teen smoking habits before an audience of hundreds at the Seminar Building on Ganesha University’s campus in Singaraja on Tuesday afternoon.
The academy award for best satellite campus goes to… The great and the good of Hollywood crowded into a white tent off Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard on 8 March as paparazzi snapped photos and well-dressed speakers braced themselves to take the stage.
The Boston Herald Liz Warren agrees to TV debates with incumbent Scott Brown A beleaguered Elizabeth Warren agreed yesterday to debate GOP rival U.S. Sen. Scott Brown four times on TV in a high-risk, yet high-reward strategy that experts said gives the Harvard professor the one-on-one comparison she needs.
ABC News Glut of zombie-like acts of cannibalism in the news is a trend that can feed on itself Experts warn that the recent glut of reported acts of cannibalism in the United States, Canada, Japan and Sweden is a trend that — figuratively as well as literally — can feed on itself.
Would market-based meter pricing help in Boston? When you have a car as I do it’s a constant game of rationalizations: Should I drive into the city tonight or take the T from the burbs? How bad will the traffic/construction be getting in there? What are the odds I’ll find a metered spot and not have to pay more for a garage? […]
Federal News Radio In Depth interviews – June 4 Boredom, curiosity, or even revenge are reasons why a hacker could jump on a keyboard and steal data from your agency’s servers. Themis Papageorge, of Northeastern University, has a list of three questions every agency should ask in order to analyze cyber threats.
Presidential Campaign Fundraising, The Movie OK — so, not quite a movie. But this data visualization video by David Lazer, Mauro Martino, Yu-ru Lin of Northeastern University is pretty darned cool — and shows how, over time, major presidential candidates have raised money and from where. Give it a look yourself: http://bit.ly/KY0Sgw
Global Post When the BRICs crumble When Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill came up with the BRICs concept in 2001, it served as shorthand for a group of economies that deserved special attention even if they weren’t quite ready to join South Korea and Mexico as new entrants to the OECD group of developed economies.
MetroWest Daily News Giglio: Return to ‘doing the right thing’ Pundits are still arguing over the root causes of the financial crisis. The short list of usual suspects is, in no particular order, greed, crazy leverage, unregulated derivatives, credit collapse, and Bernie Madoff.
Making Summer Jobs Work For Teens A report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies finds that less than 30 percent of U.S. teens had jobs in the summers of 2010 and 2011. Though the employment outlook is bleak, there are some strategies for navigating the summer job market.
The National Law Journal Experiential legal education Several law schools have allied to make clinics, simulations and other hands-on courses the norm, not an afterthought.
