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...spark. "We need to change the paradigm of people's thinking," says Antonio Dieck, Tech's business school (EGADE) dean. But for all of Monterrey's impressive start, not all the necessary pieces are yet in place. The venture-capital industry is in its infancy, there is no Mexican NASDAQ (although a draft bill to create one recently surfaced), and minority-shareholder rights need to be strengthened. More important, the Mexican business culture does not carry much appetite for risk in its DNA or an appreciation for failure. As a result, at least for the time being, a government-supported...
...Clean tech is gaining traction. In the first half of this year it has attracted $1.4 billion in venture funding, almost twice the amount invested in the first half of 2005, according to the CleanTech Venture Network, an industry-watcher. In May, NASDAQ launched its Clean Edge U.S. Index to follow 47 publicly traded clean-energy stocks. Institutional investors are finally catching on, too. Investment banks, hedge funds and state pension funds like CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System), which has put $700 million toward renewable energy technologies, have helped make clean energy tech's fastest-growing sector...
...really makes more money? NASDAQ-listed Wynn Resorts lost $20 million in the quarter that ended in June on sales of $310 million, while Adelson's N.Y.S.E.-listed Las Vegas Sands Corp. posted a $109 million net profit on sales of $541 million. Over the past 12 months Wynn Resorts total return to shareholders was more than 60% vs. Sands Corp.'s 120%. So on that count Adelson wins...
...Glauber ’61 will step down as head of the country’s largest private financial regulatory firm to take a post as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (HLS). Glauber has been chairman and CEO of NASD, the former administrative body of the NASDAQ stock market, since 2000. Glauber, who has served on the NASD Board of Governors since 1996, announced that he would move up his retirement date from the end of the calendar year at a NASD board meeting on July 20. “Leaving now will allow me to join...
...past year. The company's sales grew a lackluster (for Dell) 14%, to $56 billion, in fiscal year 2006. Last Friday, Dell stunned Wall Street by warning that its second quarter would be a dog, sending the stock down 10% that day, to $19.91, and taking the NASDAQ with it. A resurgent Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, has outpaced the industry; it announced in May that profits had grown 51% over the prior year...