While the media are important in keeping our institutions both strong and competitive, their coverage of policy making, particularly at the local and state levels, is lacking. This case study examines the impact of the media on decisions at post-secondary institutions. It looks at the failed attempt of Northwest Missouri State University to merge with the University of Missouri system in 2003/2004. Although mass media coverage was important in informing the public about the decision, it had little impact on decision makers and ultimately the decision to not go through with the merger.
The proposed merger of SapuraCrest Petroleum and Kencana Petroleum will birth the country's biggest oil and gas service provider. What are the synergistic benefits? THE merger of Datuk Shahril Shamsuddin's SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd and Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir's Kencana Petroleum Bhd has been touted to become Malaysia's biggest oil & gas (O&G) service provider with RM5.98 billion in assets and a market capitalisation of RM10.88 billion.
Consistent with its goals of encouraging innovation and enhancing consumer welfare, antitrust law generally does not compel a firm to give access to the very assets that are the source of a firm’s competitive advantage, including a firm’s intellectual property, unless a firm has illegitimately gained some edge in the market. And yet, in the context of merger review, compulsory licenses are a fairly common remedy. The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice do not impose a compulsory license in every case, but the principles guiding the decision are not entirely clear.This Article is suspicious of the benefits of a compulsory license and concerned about the costs. Ultimately, the agencies use compulsory licenses as a remedial tool to change the post-merger market dynamics....
House Members To FTC: Merged Express Scripts/Medco Could Raise Prices And/Or Limit Critical Access WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Preserve Community Pharmacy Access NOW! (PCPAN) coalition today applauded 14 Democratic and Republican House members for raising concerns about the recently proposed between Express Scripts Inc. and Medco Health Solutions Inc, two pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the group stated that a combined entity would have the ability to raise prices and/or block pass through pricing for plans and patients - ultimately limiting critical access, and requested, a "full and thorough investigation" of the $29.1 billion .
OLYMPIA Sportsmen jammed a state Senate hearing room Thursday and delivered this message to legislators over and over: Dont strip the Fish and Wildlife Commission of its authority. We do not like what you are attempting to do, said Larry Snyder, president of the Vancouver Wildlife League. We worked real hard on that referendum (Referendum 45 in 1995) and we dont want to have to go through that again.
A federal judge ended the first round of the school- consolidation legal battle Monday by ruling that the Memphis City Schools charter was properly surrendered in February and that the current all-suburban-member Shelby County Board of Education is unconstitutional because it lacks Memphis representation. S. District Court Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays also ruled valid a new state law, known as Norris-Todd, aimed at guiding the merger of MCS and Shelby County Schools with the appointment of a 21-member transition committee. Mays said consolidation must be completed in time for the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.
INTRODUCTION By almost any yardstick, 2007 was a record-setting year for merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volume.1 In 2007, M&A activity levels in the United States hit a record $1.57 trillion and worldwide deals totaled a staggering $4.5 trillion, a 5.5% and 24% increase, respectively, over the previous records set in 2006.2 Not since 2000, when stock prices fueled an intense burst of accelerated M&A activity, has the global M&A market reached such phenomenal highs.3 The boom of M&A activity has been driven by shifting consumer consumption habits, increasing investment from cash-rich private equity firms, and the convergence of media, communications, and technology industries.4 In light of the skyrocketing M&A deal volume in the United States, corporate pr...
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