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...sales of Edwards’ TB spray, the University will forgo all of the royalties it earns in developing countries, and a major share of its royalties in developed countries, as well. Harvard will divert those earnings back to MEND, says Isaac Kohlberg, who leads the University’s licensing office...
...disciplinary work has not been as common at Harvard, but said that is rapidly changing. He cited the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute as examples of cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional cooperation. The University brought in Office of Technology Development head Isaac T. Kohlberg last year to “work on better translating the academic success that Harvard has had,” Halvorsen said. The office is now building the framework to invest in the technologies itself, in order to “take those early stage technologies and move them...
...execs defecting from their listed companies. They're lured away by private equity's promise of less scrutiny and big financial reward. Calhoun's new pay is rumored at around $100 million. It's a price tag for which VNU's owners--a group of private-equity firms, including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, that acquired the company for $9.8 billion in July--will expect big results, and Calhoun, who headed GE's $47 billion infrastructure unit, is unlikely to disappoint. At VNU, he's charged with turning around its Nielsen television-ratings system as well as the Hollywood Reporter and BillBoard...
...doesn't work as well now that corporate America has learned to downsize itself. Competition from abroad keeps companies on their toes just as well as the threat of a hostile takeover ever did. "The heart and soul has become real business building," says Marc Lipschultz, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...Wagoner quickly followed up the buyouts with the announcement of a new deal Thursday to sell off 78% of General Motors Acceptance Corp., its commercial mortgate business, to a group of outside investors that includes Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. Selling GMAC also will help cover the cost of the buyouts, which are expected to exceed $2 billion, pending approval by the bankruptcy judge presiding over Delphi's Chapter 11 filing - since GM also has agreed to assume Delphi's financial responsibility for post-retirement benefits as part of the deal with the union...