Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Skills for Global Business Negotiations or Health Care Alliances and Conversions

Skills for Global Business Negotiations

Author: Renata Celichowska

This practical, insightful book provides effective strategies and systematic approaches to improve the results of international negotiations. Focusing on negotiating with developing countries, Cellich and Jain review the basic influence techniques used by international negotiators, how to identify them, and how to thwart them. Professionals will learn to establish a framework for observing, evaluating, planning, and improving future negotiations with Global Business Negotiations: A Practical Guide.



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Health Care Alliances and Conversions: A Handbook for NonProfit Trustees

Author: James R Schwartz

The guide for decision makers, a how-to-do-it manual for every nonprofit hospital director in America. Our country's health care will be much improved if directors buy and read this book.
Phillip L. Isenberg, of counsel with the firm of Hyde, Miller, Owen & Trost, former California State Assemblyman and author of California's law regulating the sale or joint venturing of nonprofit hospitals with for-profits

Health Care Alliances and Conversions provides nonprofit directors, trustees, and executives with practical advice for understanding the numerous forms of conversions including the most controversial type of transactions?joint ventures with for-profit chains. In concise and non-legal language, the authors explain directors' fiduciary duties in these complex conversion transactions. The book clarifies nonprofit directors' and trustees' responsibilities to the communities they serve and offers solid recommAndations on how to manage the conversion process without damaging reputations. The authors describe how to create marketing and valuation strategies that will meet the legal standards enforced by government regulators. This book is filled with easy-to-understand charts and tables, providing a summary of the legal duties that apply to these complex transactions.

Booknews

Provides nonprofit hospital directors and senior managers with practical guidance for understanding the numerous forms of hospital conversions and alliances, including joint ventures with for-profit chains, the most controversial type of transaction. Explains nonprofit directors' fiduciary duties in these complex conversion transactions, clarifies directors' and trustees' responsibilities to communities they serve, and offers recommendations on how to manage the conversion process without damaging reputations of the institution or its directors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
The Authors
Foreword
Introduction
1Fiduciary Obligations1
2Strategic Planning13
3Planning for the Post-Conversion Charity35
4Selling Your Hospital53
5Joint Ventures83
6Legal Protections for Directors and Trustees - and the Consequences for Failing to Use Them121
App. A: Glossary147
App. BThe Law of Fiduciary Duties Affecting Directors and Trustees of Nonprofit Hospitals151
Index193

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