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governance and returns to private equity and leveraged buyouts. We distinguish between financial and real returns to this activity, where the latter refers to productivity and broader performance measures. We also outline a research agenda on this topic. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G34; G32 Keywords: Management buyouts; Private equity; Total factor productivity; Financial and real returns; Corporate governance 1. Introduction The recent resurgence of leveraged buyouts

as presented by regulations. * Lawsuits In front of this illegal download, consequences are considerable: many websites were sued by law. For example: Yahoo China, the No.2 Chinese search engine, links to unlicensed MP3 downloads of large number of songs, it has been sued for alleged copyright violation, in Jan. 2007. Beijing’s intermediate court accepted the suit, and Yahoo should pay 5, 5 million Yuan in this fact. On April 7, 2007, Beijing's No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court suits to

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/investors/annualandotherreports/2003/opseg_latin.shtml | | * We began to do a number of things better. We saw solid improvements in marketing and innovation over the last year, from the “Real” marketing platform to the continued expansion of Vanilla Coke and diet Vanilla Coke into more than 50 countries. We also improved our ability to operate as a single Coca-Cola system this past year. We extended country-by-country business planning with our bottling

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production, free access to articles of consumption, the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production and real estate. Cuban missile crisis : Was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium- and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States

metamorphose is called: “Web 2.0”. By searching on different studies or web sites, hundreds of definitions of the “Web 2.0” appeared. On the one hand, some stated that the later corresponds to a technologic revolution offering videos, music, and pictures in real time. Others defined the “Web 2.0” as a means to enables a greater interactivity within web sites or as a very specific marketing concept. Nevertheless, one notion which is always mentioned when referring to Web 2.0 is the user. Indeed, the user plays

mobile, hardware and telecoms have changed out of recognition – mobile usage has changed the way people behave. But the exploitation of mobile services has hardly begun. The apps revolution of last few years, dominated by iPhone, is a signpost – but the real revolution will be the arrival of apps and services for the mass market. bada could be the game changer. With the bada platform and the accompanying ecosystem we pick up the characteristics of mobile app development as you will see in this chapter

Capital inflows into some middle-income countries have placed undue and potentially damaging upward pressure on currencies. Many of these flows are short-lived, volatile and sometimes speculative in nature. Left unchecked, such flows can lead to abrupt real appreciations and depreciations that are out of line with underlying fundamentals, and can do lasting damage to economies. The biggest increases were in short-term debt flows, equities and bonds, notably corporate bonds. Long-term bank lending also

content and advertising. And imagine this happening across the Web, and not just on the social network where the profile resides.  6. Not just friends, but friendsters, will start to matter. There have been a lot of debates about whether a person's "real" friends matter in a social graph -- call it the tension between friends and friendsters. In 2009, we're going to realize that loose ties (like the friendsters of yours on Facebook) are as valuable as your strong ties (close friends) because they're

keep the price low (dropped of 30% since the 50’s. Economic stabilization and consumer behavior in brazil Better situation in Brazil: long period of high inflation and economic stagnation, there was a successful eco stabilization plan called plano real improved the purchasing power of the low income segment of population. A lot of consumer goods are now accessible and consequently, after the 1995’s numerous segment = tremendous prosperity. Ex : consumption of soda shot up 60 % between 94 and 99