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...safe bet bankers will make mergers popular again. That's despite evidence that linkups usually don't accomplish their goals. A 1999 study by KPMG International found that only 17% of mergers made shareholders richer, while 53% actually made things worse. Demergers, however, "really do unlock shareholder value," Kaplan insists...
...main reason is to get stock prices up," says Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago. When times were flush, mergers allowed companies to increase earnings and inflate their share prices quickly. But mergers often create strange hybrids - like power companies trying to sell insurance - and anticipated economies of scale often don't materialize. So now, "there is a trend away from conglomerates, there is a distaste for them because there is a lack of clarity and transparency, and they often fail to deliver diversification benefits," says Steve Russell, U.K. strategist at HSBC Investment Bank. Corporations...
...Rick Kaplan, the former president of CNN, says that it is a journalist’s job to inform people of what is crucial. His comments came at a journalism conference at the Institute of Politics last month where one of the major topics of discussion was what news the media should cover...
Molecular’s Chief Financial Officer David A. Kaplan, told the Banker & Tradesman newspaper that the company was not making its payments because of “outstanding issues that need to be resolved” involving Harvard’s actions as landlord, although he refused to elaborate. The newspaper suggested that the dispute involved the physical condition of the Arsenal Complex...
...Kaplan did not return repeated phone calls from The Crimson...