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...both a market and a production site for West European companies is fueling a frenzy of acquisitions there. Mergers involving East European firms soared in value by more than 250% this year, with almost 1,700 deals totaling in excess of $100 billion, according to data firm Dealogic. Stephen Barrett, international chairman of the corporate finance practice of consultants KPMG, says the privatization of many firms in the region is the cause of this sharp increase, as well as a surge in dealmaking by Russian energy firms such as Gazprom, the state-controlled oil and gas giant that...
...foreign bids, by Dutch bank ABN AMRO for Banca Antonveneta, eventually succeeded. Domestic politics remains a temporary risk, says Morgan Stanley's Pereira, but "the forces underlying European M&A trends are much stronger than any episodic national pushback." Indeed, mergers have a way of perpetuating themselves. Barrett says that chief executives of European companies are now under pressure from their boards to do deals in order to boost growth. "The subdued M&A activity over the past three years had a lot to do with the fragility of ceo confidence," he says. But companies now are looking...
...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced last Friday that it had received a $16.5 million donation to fund cancer research, marking the largest gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute’s 58-year history. The institute’s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation...
...women’s pole vault, sophomore Clara Blattler and freshman Sally Stanton took first and second for the Crimson. Senior Travis led the men with a first-place finish in the triple jump (14.97 meters) and a second-place in the long jump (5.82 meters). Junior Sean Barrett won the men’s 5,000-meter run, finishing in 14:50.6. Sophomore teammate Andrew Lipkin was in third with a time of 15:13.32. The Crimson took five of the top seven places in the event. Harvard will resume competition after winter break with a dual meet...
...Yalies’ prank attempt at The Game was but a pale, failed echo of last year’s epoch in prank history. After a wholesome afternoon visiting tailgates, Barrett B. Jackson ’06 and her gaggle of friends received two suspicious text messages from an unidentified number. “Remember: SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!! -John Harvard” read the first message, and “Hi [personalized names]! At the THIRD QUARTER KICKOFF, chant “We Suck” to prove to Yale (forever a safety school) that we don?...