Posted on December 1, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Filed under: 2008 | Best Practices | CD Community | Case Studies | Most Admired 2008 | Oct.-Dec. 2008 | People | The Magazine
Tagged: Abbott Laboratories , Cisco Systems , General Electric , Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers

Ready for a little good news? Try this: It may be a little beleaguered, but there's still a real economy out there where companies make things like communications gear and medicine and jet engines. And even in a period when things like toxic credit default swaps and noxious structured investment...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 26, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Growth Strategy | M&A Outlook | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: Corporate Dealmaker , General Electric , M&A , Robert Duffy

Robert Duffy, general manager, global business development of General Electric Co., attended The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 to accept the Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker Award in the industrial sector. In this edition of Inside The Deal, Suzanne Stevens speaks with Duffy about GE's acquisition strategy in 2009 Also see:Announcing...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Filed under: M&A Outlook | Most Admired 2008 | People
Tagged: abbott laboratories , cisco systems , general electric co. , johnson & johnson , oracle corp.

Regular visitors to this site may recall that in September we launched a survey to identify the Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers in three key industry sectors: healthcare, information technology and industrial. Well, despite a few minor distractions in the financial markets since then, The Deal's readers came through for us and identified the companies doing the best work in M&A in those...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 12, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Filed under: M&A Outlook | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: Cisco , Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker , Ned Hooper

The Deal unveiled the winners of the Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards at the M&A Outlook 2009 conference Wednesday afternoon. Ned Hooper of Cisco Systems Inc. accepted the award for information technology. Hooper couldn't attend the event, but he did give an acceptance speech via video....  Continue reading

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Posted on November 10, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Crisis On Wall Street | Deal International | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: M&A Outlook 2009 , Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards

An impressive slate of panelists will dive deep into the trends affecting dealmaking Tuesday and Wednesday during The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 at the New York Grand Hyatt. Dealmakers on hand to discuss the micro- and macro-economic trends at play include:Nicole Arnaboldi, chairwoman of DLJ Merchant Banking PartnersBruce Bowden, head...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Divesting and Restructuring | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: Anne Madden , David Cote , earnings , Honeywell International , MACD , Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers

Honeywell International Inc.'s net income increased $101 million to $719 million, or 16.3%. The Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers (MACD) candidate noted growth in its automation and control solutions segment -- its largest unit -- as sales were up 15%, driven by acquisitions and divestitures and the favorable impact of foreign...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 16, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Deal International | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: united technologies corp.

As panic gives way to mere despair in the stock market, we get a reminder from United Technologies Corp. that businesses are still in business and likely to remain so. The industrial conglomerate said third-quarter earnings are up 6%, to $1.27 billion, as reported by Bloomberg. The top line grew...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 10, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Filed under: Crisis On Wall Street | Most Admired 2008
Tagged: MACD , most admired corporate dealmakers

Is timing really absolutely everything? We sure hope not.On Sept. 22, after months of work, we unveiled our Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker survey and invited you to participate. In a nutshell, the project involved identifying the most transaction-intensive large companies in three sectors, listing all the public deals they closed...  Continue reading

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Posted on September 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Filed under: 2008 | Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Deal International | July-Sept. 2008 | Most Admired 2008 | The Magazine

It's not too hard to imagine a Corporate Olympics, where companies would showcase the different capabilities that make them successful. For anyone who follows business, some competition categories come quickly to mind. People have been recognizing standouts in sales and marketing, for example, for half a century or more. The...  Continue reading

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Posted on September 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Most Admired 2008

Got a few minutes and an interest in helping to spotlight superior work in strategic M&A? Then we hope you'll take part in The Deal's 2008 Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers survey. To get started, log on to our survey site at www.thedeal.com/cdsurvey. There you will have the chance to rate...  Continue reading

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