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In Search of Research Recognition 20110822-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 8/19/2011 3:23 PM Page 1 $2.00/AUGUST 22 - 28, 2011 SPECIAL REPORT A DOSE OF REALITY: Is all this health care building good for us? PAGES 13-19 Market’s IN SEARCH OF volatility RESEARCH leads to RECOGNITION Kent State’s new hire has tough task: buybacks Boost coffers amid budgetary upheaval Firms see their shares By TIMOTHY MAGAW as value investments [email protected] s the point man for filling marching By MICHELLE PARK orders by Kent State University [email protected] president Lester Lefton to build in a big way the school’s stash of research A number of public companies in dollars,A Grant McGimpsey knows he faces an Northeast Ohio aren’t sitting on the uphill battle — but one he intends to take on sidelines as insiders and investors at full speed. pocket their shares at reduced prices Though he has been on the job as Kent in a yo-yo stock market. They, too, State’s vice president for research for just a are buying or are poised to do so. few weeks, Dr. McGimpsey already is knee- The boards of both Cliffs Natural deep in discussions about how to inject Resources Inc. and Invacare Corp. more research money into the university’s just last week authorized new stock coffers, an amount often perceived as a metric repurchase plans that allow both that gauges a school’s prestige. companies to buy back millions “Kent State needs to be recognized as a more of their own shares. research university, and that’s why I’m here,” The Cliffs board last Monday, Aug. Dr. McGimpsey said. “I want to work at an 15, authorized a new repurchase institution that recognizes the value of what plan allowing the iron ore producer MARC GOLUB research can do for a society, and I’m not to buy up to 4 million shares of its Dr. Grant McGimpsey, Kent State University’s new vice president for research, being corny here.” common stock outstanding. stands next to a confocal microscope in the biology department at KSU. See RESEARCH Page 11 Citing “recent volatility in the global equity markets,” Cliffs chief financial officer Laurie Brlas said last week’s buyback authorization “will allow Cliffs to opportunistically acquire shares at attractive valuations.” New convention home luring industrial groups back And Invacare, based in Elyria, announced last Friday, Aug. 19, that By DAN SHINGLER Even two years before the city’s new ventions here, Positively Cleveland so far has been encouraged to see its board had authorized the company [email protected] convention center is finished, big leaders say. Their audience — those not just medical device companies to repurchase more common stock, industrial organizations already are in rubber, plastic and steel-related drawn to the city as it prepares to boosting its overall authorization to Cleveland is the place to be — at signing up to use it. And when they manufacturing businesses — never build and unveil the Cleveland 2.5 million shares. least if you are holding a big indus- do, some shows will bring thousands left town. Medical Mart and Convention Center Asked why Invacare executives trial trade show. of people to town, Positively Cleve- “The shows are returning because in late 2013, but basic industrial sought a new authorization, Gerald That’s the word from Positively land says. this is their market. Their wheel- groups as well. B. Blouch, president and CEO, cited Cleveland, the group that markets It wasn’t that the industrial groups house is right here,” said Eric Julian, For some, it will be déjà vu all widespread uncertainty over equities Cleveland as a tourism and conven- ever had a beef with this shrunken national sales manager for Positively over again, as many of those groups and the general economy, as well as tion destination, along with those old manufacturing giant; there just Cleveland. used to hold their meetings here See BUYBACKS Page 21 who hold the shows themselves. weren’t good places to hold con- Mr. Julian said his organization See SHOWS Page 21 INSIDE 34 6 Growth in road racing, Corporate Challenge give sports management outfit NEWSPAPER Hermes Cos. boost ■ Page 3 Entire contents © 2011 74470 01032 by Crain Communications Inc. 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