Microsoft Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions Fritz Lanman confirmed this week that Steve Ballmer tried to acquire Facebook way back when.
As a staff person on the corporate management team, though, she participated in discussions of strategy and acquisitions that revealed how the executives heading publicly-traded companies made decisions.
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With his HP career now in the rear view mirror, there is much talk that, while Hurd vastly increased profits with a strategy of acquisitions and cost-cutting, he starved much of the company of resources for growth, particularly in research and development.
We figured the son's aggressive strategy of rapid acquisitions would best his father's plodding style.
This firm has quietly executed a growth strategy that uses acquisitions and internally developed modules to widen the concentric circles of logistics automation.
Add to that strategy lots of acquisitions to firm up their base (they bought a similar upstate New York company two days ago) and to expand their offerings.
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Intel has made a series of recent and successful software acquisitions to pursue a deliberate strategy focused on leading companies in their industry delivering software that takes advantage of silicon.
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Now, as markets strengthen, future profit margins helped by an offshore growth strategy and the recent acquisitions are likely to exceed earlier peak-profit levels.
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Fourth, there are the very high valuations that sellers are demanding for well-positioned properties in the defense sector, making a strategy of growing through acquisitions unattractive.
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Taesik Yoon, editor of the Forbes Growth Investor newsletter, believes that increased sales and a growth strategy based around strategic acquisitions will put HELE in position for continued growth through 2011.
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His group's listing on Milan's stock exchange in 2000 provided cash for a strategy of growth through acquisitions of clothing and accessories brands and licences, and turnover has since risen almost threefold.
But our results suggest that HR plays a less prominent role when it comes to the development of strategy, the consideration of strategic options and other strategy areas, including acquisitions and mergers.
He climbed the ranks, working closely with Joseph W. Luter III, who led Smithfield for about three decades and was the architect of its strategy of expanding through acquisitions and controlling each stage of pork production.
Likewise, a strategy to grow by small acquisitions abroad won't make much of a difference to overall returns, Brown wrote in his letter to the board.
Genzyme, for its part, has made acquisitions a key part of its growth strategy, with sales from products bought in from the outside generating 38% of total revenue in 2006, not to mention 50% of revenue growth, according to a research note by biotech analyst Geoffrey Porges at Sanford C.
She gives the example of a multinational corporation faced with the problem of integrating acquisitions across Asia and the Americas into a global strategy.
Its growth strategy includes organic growth as well as strategic acquisitions to expand its presence in emerging markets.
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NatWest will not say whether a divestiture is in the works, but it has hired Lazard Brothers, a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist, to help sort out its investment-banking strategy.
The Red Sox learned the downside risk of that strategy the hard way after their backpage-grabbing acquisitions of Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez two winters ago later went up in smoke.
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This transaction is aligned with our long-term strategy of expanding our core businesses through organic growth and acquisitions.
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Identified by the quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, this small-cap company has adopted the latter strategy, but it has also supplemented this with smart acquisitions designed to enhance its product offerings and accelerate the pace of margin expansion through cost-saving synergies.
Acquisitions, however, also have long been expected to be part of her strategy.
As head of strategy and corporate development, he is in charge of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital relationships and global strategic alliances.
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Acquisitions have long been expected to be part of Ms. Mayer's strategy, though to date she only has acquired small companies primarily for their engineering and product-management talent.
Hauber argues that investors are expecting Astra to imitate the strategy of Bristol-Myers Squibb, which is growing by doing small acquisitions of promising drugs.
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During the conference call Wednesday, Thomas Ascher , ISE's chief strategy officer, said the company intended to "grow organically, by acquisitions and by affiliation, " a comment that leaves open the possibility of a big deal in the future.
However, this strategy is more risky as Apple does not have a track record of integrating large acquisitions.
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Acquisitions, however, have long been expected to be part of Ms. Mayer's strategy.
And the strategy is to tick boxes, as many as possible, as quickly as possible (preferably through acquisitions).
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