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Korn’s appointment, which ends a year-long search, will replace a short-lived position with a narrower portfolio: the vice provost for research policy, which was vacated by astronomy professor John P. Huchra...
...troubles, for example, began with big losses in its mortgage-laden investment portfolio. But its current crisis has to do with its big position in credit default swaps - securities that allow one to bet on or insure against a company's failure. If the credit-rating agencies downgrade AIG's debt, as is considered likely, it will be forced by the terms of the credit default swaps in its portfolio to cough up so much cash that its survival would be in danger, the New York Times reported lastnight...
...have calculated that the next one could cause as much as $150 billion worth of damage. And Crist's reforms, while reducing premiums, included other changes that increased the risk that taxpayers and policyholders will have to bail out the Cat Fund. "The risk was removed from the insurers' portfolio and is now being supported by the people of Florida," McCarty explained...
...needed a new political identity to make it to the next level, so ethics reform became her calling card. "She's a very savvy politician," says Halcro. "So wedge issues were not part of the portfolio...
Cadbury Schweppes' two-pronged portfolio of candy and soft drinks wasn't too far off strategically from the soft-drink and snack-food approach that has served PepsiCo so well. The difference is that Pepsi has Pepsi, not Dr Pepper, as a top brand and an organization that can execute to the last bottle cap. For Cadbury, growing two separate businesses proved an insurmountable task, undone by bad execution, bad luck and the weird actors who dominate candyland--the secretive, privately held Mars Inc. and the stumbling, publicly held Hershey Co., which is controlled, ineptly, by the Hershey Trust...