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BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	Medamicus: The Pulse Is Rising Medamicus, a small outfit that supplies medical-device giants, recently purchased Biomec Cardiovascular. Analysts think this makes the stock attractive.
HBS Working Knowledge November 24, 2003 Jim Heskett	Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Transparency in financial accounting: are we addressing symptoms or causes?
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Robert Barker	For Putnam's Parent, Limited Damage Putnam's low-profile parent, Marsh & McLennan, strikes me now as an opportunity.
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	Go-Power At General Mills Faced with a raft of woes -- including a possible accounting probe -- General Mills has seen shares slide as many investors fled. But some pros -- confident the SEC's request for info on sales accounting will have no dire results -- have bought at the low price.
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	A Christmas Bonanza For Concord? Digital cameras are hot. With Christmas coming on, some analysts see Concord Camera, the less-known rival of Canon, Nikon, and Eastman Kodak, going gangbusters. That's because Concord's digitals are at least 50% cheaper than competitors', even though Concord is upping its prices.
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Gene G. Marcial	Cable Giants May Want In On NTN's Games Tiny NTN Communications, a provider of interactive TV shows to homes and hotels, has caught the eye of Time Warner and Comcast.
Knowledge@Wharton	What Is Google Worth? The prospect of uber-search engine firm Google Inc.'s considering an initial public offering seems to have Wall Street salivating. Analysts are struggling to put numbers on intangibles, while technology boosters hail the potential IPO as if it were the second coming.
Knowledge@Wharton	Bank of America and FleetBoston: Dud Deal? It was the third largest bank merger in history, promising to create a mega-bank that would span the country. But though bank executives promise economies of scale and cross-selling opportunities, investors have not been impressed.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Robert Barker	Is Starwood Losing Star Power? With its star CEO Barry Sternlicht semi-retiring at age 42, hotelier Starwood may be setting out on a course destined to yield a host of new, unseen risks.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Paula Dwyer	The Big Board's Blueprint: Done Deal? New York Stock Exchange critics feel shortchanged by interim Chairman John S. Reed's new governance plan, but the SEC is already on board.
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