Most people seem to regard Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as "The Academic." No surprise there, he taught economics at both Stanford and Princeton.
Software giant Microsoft's $31 per share takeover bid in January for lowly Yahoo came when the once-powerful Web portal was trading at $19.18 a share. Many assumed then that the big upside to a Yahoo takeover was that it gave Steve Ballmer and Microsoft a way to compete with Google for the U.S. search engine market.
