Mapping Prejudice traces history in Mpls. of discriminatory deeds. The ugly history of racism is buried in the restrictive deed covenants of homeowners across Minneapolis.
From the neighborhoods near Lake Nokomis to properties along Minnehaha Creek to subdivisions in Northeast’s Waite Park, real estate documents spell out requirements meant to keep people “other than anyone of the Caucasian race” out. Now, a team of local researchers aims to make Minneapolis the first city in the nation to map every residential lot’s history of racially restrictive deed covenants.
Their painstaking research is accelerating, thanks to digital technology that will let them scan records that once resided in huge dusty tomes or on microfilm in the Hennepin County recorder office. “If we succeed, we’ll be the first city in the country,” said Kirsten Delegard, director of the joint effort between Augsburg College, where she runs the Historyapolis Project, and the University of Minnesota’s Borchert Map Library.
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Although there has been access to free online courses on the Internet for years, the quality and quantity of courses has changed. Access to free courses has allowed students to obtain a level of education that many only could dream of in the past. This has changed the face of education. In The New York Times article Instruction for Masses Knocked Down Campus Walls, author Tamar Lewin stated, “in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree.” Although MOOCs are the latest trend, not everyone agrees that schools should offer them. Coursera.org.
Greenshoe. The greenshoe option is popular because it is one of few SEC-permitted, risk-free means for an underwriter to stabilize the price of a new issue post-pricing.
Issuers will sometimes not include a greenshoe option in a transaction when they have a specific objective for the proceeds of the offering and wish to avoid the possibility of raising more money than planned. The term comes from the first company, Green Shoe Manufacturing (now called Stride Rite Corporation),[2] to permit underwriters to use this practice in an offering.
Underwriter short selling and price stabilization[edit] Greenshoe option[edit] Nicsbackgroundchecks.jpg 714×507 pixels. The savvy executive’s guide to buying back shares - McKinsey Quarterly - Corporate Finance - Capital Management. Managers, like investors, often gauge the performance of share repurchases against that old investment adage: buy low, sell high.
If they could consistently time repurchases to periods when shares were undervalued, as some try to do, they could reward loyal shareholders at the expense of those who sell out. Of course managers, like investors, can’t always do what old adages suggest. Markets are volatile and unpredictable, and what seem to be longer-term trends can quickly reverse course. Overconfidence can lead executives to buy back shares even at the peak share price—and a bias for caution can restrain them from buying shares when prices are lowest. The result is that companies seldom consistently pick the right time to buy back their shares at advantageous prices. One global technology company is a typical case (Exhibit 1). Oap_2011_report_card. LiteratureRetrieve.
M&A - Investment Bankers Fees. Investment bankers charge significant fees to provide their services on a deal.
Fee structures are typically customized to each deal, so there is no standard fee for a deal. Fee structures generally include retainers, success fees, minimum transaction fees, breakup fees, and expense reimbursements. Fee agreements also usually define exclusions, exclusivity, tails and indemnification clauses. Right Management Executive Group Group News. Q3'11 Silicon Valley VC Survey : November 17, 2011 : Fenwick & West LLP. Background — We analyzed the terms of venture financings for 113 companies headquartered in Silicon Valley that reported raising money in the third quarter of 2011.
Overview of Fenwick & West Results Up rounds exceeded down rounds in 3Q11 70% to 15%, with 15% of rounds flat. This was an increase from 2Q11 when up rounds exceeded down rounds 61% to 25%, with 14% of rounds flat. Series B rounds were exceptionally strong, comprising 38% of the relevant rounds (Series A rounds aren’t included as there is no prior round for comparison purposes), and 89% of the Series B rounds were up rounds. This was the ninth quarter in a row in which up rounds exceeded down rounds. Overview of Other Industry Data After 2Q11 there was reason to believe that the venture environment was improving, but the results were more mixed in 3Q11.
Detailed results from third-party publications are as follows: Venture Capital Investment. Detailed Fenwick & West Results - Common Stock. Uneven pain—Unemployment by metropolitan area and race. The Great Recession has caused millions of job losses across the country.
Many families and communities are devastated. While every metropolitan area has experienced some negative economic consequences from the Great Recession, not all areas have suffered equally. Looking just at annual unemployment rates in 2009, we see wide variations of hardship in the 50 largest metropolitan areas. The unemployment rate in the Detroit metro area, for example, was more than two-and-a-half times the rate in Oklahoma City (see Table 1).