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5 hrs ago | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Follow the Analyst Leader: New Stock Coverage to Watch

NCR Corp : RBC Capital Mkts initiated coverage of this company with a rating of Outperform and a price target of $28. Heidrick & Struggles : Avondale initiated coverage of this company with a rating of Mkt Perform and a price target of $17. kforce.com : Avondale initiated coverage of this company with a rating of Mkt Perform and a price target of ... (more)

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9 hrs ago | AmericanBankingNews.com

Avondale Partners Analysts Begin Coverage on Heidrick & Struggles

The firm set a "market perform" rating and a $17.00 price target on the stock. Shares of Heidrick & Struggles traded down 0.68% during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $16.18. Heidrick & Struggles has a 52 week low of $15.57 and a 52 week high of $27.60. The company's market cap is $291.0 million.

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Sat May 19, 2012

Crain's Chicago Busines

Heidrick slims down to regain profitability

Revenue at the Chicago company rose 7 percent in 2011, to $527.8 million, but the loss amounted to $33.7 million, or $1.90 per diluted share.

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Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Weekly Tech Business Recap: Facebook's Tepid IPO, Yahoo CEO Drama Shift

Yahoo's first post-Scott Thompson trading day has its shares moving up a bit, but not only because Thompson was removed from his contentious tenure as CEO.

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Thu May 17, 2012

Financial Times

Working in Africa: Expatriates in little danger of seeing the money run out

Expatriates are certainly in little danger of running out of money, but the degree to which they are "looked after" rather than paid in hard cash depends where in Africa they operate.

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Wed May 16, 2012

GlobeNewswire

Heidrick & Struggles Names Daren Kemp to Lead Global Industrial Practice

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. , the leadership advisory firm providing executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, announced today that Daren Kemp has been named Global Practice Managing Partner of the Industrial Practice, effective immediately.

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Forbes.com

After Yahoo Debacle, What's Next For Scott Thompson?

Now that Scott Thompson, 54, has resigned as CEO of Yahoo , what could be his next career move? What sort of options does he have, given the reports that for years, he falsified his credentials, claiming that he had degrees in computer science and accounting from Stonehill College outside Boston , when in fact he graduated with an accounting major ... (more)

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, Stonehill College, Hewlett Packard, Oracle Corporation, Lawrence Ellison

Tue May 15, 2012

GlobeNewswire

Heidrick & Struggles and Georgetown University Partner to Host Chief Diversity Officer Roundtable

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. , the leadership advisory firm providing executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, announced today that it will co-host the Chief Diversity Officer Roundtable with Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies in Washington D.C. on May 14-15, 2012.

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Mon May 14, 2012

WWSB

Yahoo CEO leaving post

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson reportedly will step down Sunday amid controversy over mentions on his resume and in regulatory filings of a computer science degree he never received.

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Related Topix: Stonehill College, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

KVUE.com

Resume scandal leads to exit of Yahoo CEO

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson left the company four months into the job Sunday after more than a week of scrutiny into inaccuracies on his resum and in company filings.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, Stonehill College

WITN

Yahoo Names Levinsohn Interim CEO

Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turnaround the long-troubled Internet company.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Stonehill College

Fri May 11, 2012

CNet News

Yahoo CEO Reportedly Blames Search Firm for Messing Up His Resume

Scott Thompson, as reported by Business Insider, Reuters, and other news sources, isn't naming names about who's to blame, but the search firm has been identified as Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles.

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Cleveland.com

Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, addresses the audience at the Rock Hall induction ceremony April 14, 2012, at Cleveland's Public Auditorium.

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Thu May 10, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

EXCLUSIVE: Here's How Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Is Explaining His Bio Scandal

Right now, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is attempting to explain to employees why his official Yahoo and eBay bios said he had a degree in computer science when in fact he does not.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal

Tue May 08, 2012

The New York Times

DealBook: Yahoo Tries to Address Error on Chief's Degree

Yahoo sought to contain the turmoil surrounding its chief executive's embellished academic record on Tuesday, as the director who led the search for the executive said that she would not stand for re-election to the board.

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Fri May 04, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

Yahoo Did Not Go Through The Usual Vetting Procedure With Thompson

Yahoo's board has a very hard decision to make today: whether or not it can live with having a CEO who, for the past dozen years or so at least, allowed people to mistakenly believe he had a computer science degree when he in fact does not.

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