PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

But as of now, Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant is integrating with MediSprout, a health communications startup, to launch a platform for scheduling appointments. There have also been reports that the eCommerce giant is looking to get into pharmaceuticals. The specific amount of the investment has not been disclosed.

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Entertainment Communication Pharmaceutical 64

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income.

Hurdle Rate 80

Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 80

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2017

Brands have been eager to invest in digital transformation in recent years. After all, having a mobile presence enhances products and communication with both consumers and employees in fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and, of course, financial services. Invest in three things: people, process and tech.

Pharmaceutical 40

Pharmaceutical Securities eCommerce Investments 40

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 102

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 102

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Rise of Intangibles While the debate about intangibles, and how best to value them, is relatively recent, it is unquestionable that intangibles have been a part of valuation, and the investment process, through history. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

Valuation 104

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 60

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein.

Quantitative Analysis 60

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 60

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

CFO News Room

JANUARY 22, 2023

Gilbert Doctorow “Better an unsatisfactory peace than a debacle” – Alexander Mercouris Empire, Communication and NATO Wars U.S. Doesn’t mention that maybe outsourcing US drug manufacturing to China was a mistake. Water California’s next flood could destroy one of its most diverse cities.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Pharmaceutical Economics Leadership 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The point where their lack of trust in the product to meet their needs, and the emotional investment they’d made in it, have finally been outweighed by the physical and emotional effort required to abandon it. Companies keep crapifying making incremental changes “because it worked the last time.” John Bull (@garius) November 3, 2022.

Economics 130

Economics Transportation Manufacturing Forecasting 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It seems like the whole US National Institute of Health is designed for this information to bubble up to the top for a little command and control and communication. 00:16:33 And then they have to explain to their shareholders, oh, we invested all this money in this and it didn’t actually happen. Why the delay? Right, right.

Manufacturing 56

Manufacturing Healthcare Leadership Profit and Loss 56