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Adidas Favors Outside Track
Will bringing in an outsider revive the brand with fresh insight or cause it to stumble on the turns?
North America
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Monsanto Deal In Hand, Bayer Faces Regulators
In potentially the biggest foreign corporate takeover ever by a German company, Bayer seeks to buyMonsanto for 62 billion. Werner Bauman gets into agribusiness.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Obama: US To Lift Sanctions On Myanmar
<strong>Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a change of heart regarding US sanctions against her country.</strong>
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Pharma Prices Raise Eyebrows
<strong>US: </strong>Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, an American pharmaceuticals company, finds herself at the center of one of the biggest pharma controversies in recent years: price-gouging.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Tax Clampdown Looks Beyond Apple
The EU hit Apple with a tax bill, but it's not the only company in regulators' sights.McDonalds, Facebook, Google and Amazonare being called on the carpet about tax practices too.
Awards
World’s Best Consumer Bank: On Keeping Customers Happy
Jennifer Tory, group head, personal and commercial banking at RBC, discusses the bank’s ongoing quest to blend its digital and physical channels for clients.
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Can Jet CEO Make Walmart.com Fly?
<strong>US</strong> | Wal-Mart’s decision to buy Jet.com, a fast-growing e-commerce company, for $3.3 billion is being viewed as a shrewd move for both companies—one that strengthens their ability to compete with Amazon.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cuba Says Welcome, But Bring Your Own Financing
<strong>Frontier Markets Report: Cuba</strong><br />
Obstacles and contradictions mar Cuba’s environment for foreign direct investment, but its market offers a wealth of opportunity.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
US Firms Embrace Softer, More Frequent Reviews
<strong>HUMAN RESOURCES </strong>| Performance appraisals drive everyone nuts, but many US companies are doing them more often.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
US Companies Cut Back On Share Repurchases
A squeeze on earnings and a rise in funding costs have persuaded many US companies to commit less cash to buying back their own shares this year.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
US Still A Strong Draw For FDI
Aaron Brickman, senior vice president for strategy and development at the Organization for International Investment (OFII), a nonprofit trade association, also founded SelectUSA, a federal program to promote foreign direct investment in the US. He visited Global Finance to discuss the state of FDI worldwide.
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LinkedIn Hopes For Soft Link With Microsoft
<strong>US</strong> | When Microsoft boughtLinkedIn, the deal was structured to leavethe networking site to grow and develop somewhat independently. The question is, how independently?