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Larta
University : The Successful Negotiating Workshop, September
25
The Successful Negotiating Workshop provides participants
with a professional, structured approach to negotiation that
increases the likelihood of success and decreases adverse
consequences of a negotiation. The three hour workshop includes
interactive team and individual exercises that help to consolidate
new negotiation skills.
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Beginning
October 8: Larta Economic Research Briefings
Larta's Economic Research Briefings are high-level luncheon
events focusing on financial executives and major investors
from the region's capital markets. Attendees gain insight/industry
intelligence from leading authorities on a wide variety of
significant and dynamic industries. Briefings will occur monthly
at Larta's offices. The first briefing, Future of the Private
Equity Industry, will take place on October 8.
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Articles
Sponsored
by:
Business
and Investment:
One Way to Settle the Controversy over Stock Options: Eliminate
Them (Knowledge @ Wharton)
In
the wake of news reports about compensation excesses in U.S. companies,
Cendant recently announced that it expected to reduce the issuance
of employee stock options and use grants of restricted stock instead.
That decision has placed Cendant – an $8.9 billion real estate
and travel conglomerate – in the vanguard of a movement to
reject option-based incentives and return to a more traditional
way of rewarding performance. How valid is that approach, and
will other companies follow Cendant’s lead?
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Security
Technology:
Technology
lags, and problems persist with smuggled weapons despite more
screeners (LA
Times)
Thousands
more sky marshals are flying. Most airport workers have been given
criminal background checks. Intelligence sharing is better. At
Los Angeles International Airport, 49 lanes are open for screening
passengers, up from 42 before the Sept. 11 attacks, with a goal
of at least 60.
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Nanotech
and Bioscience:
Be
All That DNA Can Be (Wired)
In its continuing efforts to identify all its lost soldiers, the
U.S. Army is quietly becoming the leader in pushing a new form
of DNA testing.
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Research
Reveals Role of Breast Cancer Gene in Repairing Damaged DNA (Scientific
American)
It is estimated that 200, 000 new incidences of breast cancer
will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2002. For women with a family
history of the disease, about half of the cases will be caused
by mutations in one of two genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2. Now findings
published online by the journal Science reveal the crystal structure
of the BRCA2 protein and demonstrates how mutations in the gene
could contribute to tumor growth.
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HP
fellow talks of triple achievement in molecular electronics
(CMP Media)
Speaking at a symposium celebrating the 175th anniversary of the
Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, Stanley Williams, a Hewlett
Packard fellow and director of quantum science research at HP
Labs, said his group had scored three important achievements in
molecular electronics.
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Digital
Media:
Want
Video on Demand? Press Pause (Wired)
File
trading is so 1999. The newest roadblock to downloading digital
entertainment is patent law. And this time, it's the media companies
breaking the rules.
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The
New Arena For Video Games (New York Times)
Sony's
PlayStation 2 has dominated rivals from Microsoft and Nintendo.
But this fall the console competition enters a new arena: online
gaming.
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This events calendar is provided as a service by Larta about
events vetted and endorsed by Larta.
September
18-20: Integrated Nanosystems 2002
The
Integrated Nanosystems 2002 is a special forum bringing together
a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers, representatives
from the government and the venture community to discuss issues
related to research, education, government and private funding,
as well as commercialization.
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September
19: Association for Women in Technology (AWT), Network Security,
Post 9/11
This
panel presentation of Network Security, Post 9/11, will consist
of security experts and corporate women in IT management positions
who are responsible for their organizations' network security.
The format of this panel presentation will consist of four 15-minute
presentations, followed by 15-minutes of Q&A with the audience.
It should prove to be an interesting discussion with many "lessons
learned" and examples relevant to our careers, our own security
and success.
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September
21: Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Beyond the Bubble, Building
Ventures the Old- Fashioned Way
The
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum kicks off the 2002-2003 season with
a close look at what it takes to build a high-tech business following
the collapse of the telecom and internet bubbles and in a bear
market. This program will feature successful entrepreneurs about
the attitudes and actions necessary to build a high-tech business
in challenging times.
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September
22: Tech Coast Venture Network: Biomedical Success Stories: The
Good, Bad and the Ugly of Medical Company Funding
Panelists will provide an in depth discussion regarding the
“need to know” to successfully complete a funding package.
The various mechanisms for funding will be discussed and the advantages
and disadvantages of each will be examined.
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September
24: Jetro LA presents, NanoTechnology Evolution: Research Labs
to Products
This
presentation, by Brian Lim, Vice President of Business Development,
NanoDevices, will focus on the tools to bridge the gap between
promising laboratory results and products that can deliver a compelling
value proposition.
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September
24-25: ACG Los Angeles Chapter Hosts 2002 Middle Market M&A
Conference
The Los Angeles Chapter of The Association for Corporate Growth
in association with the Orange County, San Francisco and Silicon
Valley Chapters and the Los Angeles Business Journal presents
California's most important M&A and finance event for middle
market companies. Meet
and hear the experts on M&A from some of the world's leading
corporations and private equity sponsors. Special presentations
by Sam Donaldson, ABC-NEWS, Gerald Levin, Former CEO, AOL/Time
Warner, and more.
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September
25: SDRTA presents, The Venture Plan
Going into its 3rd year, the tremendously successful TechNetEd
is RTA's signature, sophisticated half-day seminar series for
high-tech/biotech technology entrepreneurs and early-stage/growth
companies. TechNetEd 2002 features more comprehensive information
per seminar, new content and widely renowned speakers.
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September
25: ISTTD Focus Forum, The Digital Century
Larta's
own Rohit Shukla will appear as a distinguished panelist at the
ISTTD Focus Forum, The Digital Century: Challenges and Opportunities,
at UCLA's Moore Hall, alongside Dr. Jeffrey Cole, UCLA Center
For Communication Policy and Founder, World Internet Project;
Dr. Susan Hackwood, California Council on Science and Technology;
Dr. Kenneth Green, Campus Computing Project and a rare and special
guest appearance by Ms. Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and Member,
Switzerland-based, World Economic Forum Digital Divide Task Force.
Prof. Sidney Morse will moderate this distinguished group of panelists
in a discussion about the impact next generation Internet and
other emerging technologies will have on our lives in the 21st
Century and the social and economic implications.
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