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Staving Off the Side Effects of the Steve Jobs Syndrome
Feb 04, 2011 - Steve Jobs Syndrome. Because a portion of these companies' market values reflect the perceived value of the CEO, the importance of contingency planning can't be overstated. “It is frightening to think when companies are CEO-dependent how much that value could shift by a change in the CEO,” said Ralph Walkling, executive director at Drexel University's LeBow Center for Corporate Governance. Of course, it's not inherently a bad thing for a company to be in this category, especially if it is successful.

Finance Professor Jie Cai traveled to Australia to present a paper
Apr 12, 2010 - Professor Cai presented his paper "Stock Option Grants to Target CEOs during Private Merger Negotiations" coauthored with Prof. Elizer Fich and Ph.D. student Anh Tran at the Sixth Finance Down Under Conference on March 25 in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was organized by the Melbourne Derivatives Research Group Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne.

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