In a case that could set a precedent for drug manufacturers if it reaches the courtroom, Mark Livingston, former associate director of training and continuous improvement at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' Sanford, N.C. plant, has invoked the employee protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to sue his former employer as...
Specialist marketing recruitment company Stopgap was set up in 1993 by the managing director, with just two people working out of a small office in London. The company needed to put in place a more formal process for managing staff performance. How could the company appraise staff formally without losing...
Fairfax Media Ltd's digital arm has acquired a majority stake in The Weather Company.Fairfax Digital has taken a 75 per cent stake in The Weather Company whose founder and managing director, Mark Hardy, holds the remaining 25 per cent.Mr Hardy would be retained as managing director and said The...
In this adaptation of a chapter from The Will to Manage (1966), by the late McKinsey managing director Marvin Bower, the author writes that a company's philosophy evolves as a set of rules or guidelines that gradually become established, through trial and error or through leadership, as expected patterns of...
Selling is an art. It is an essential business skill. Everyone needs to sell something. In an interview, the interviewee tries to sell himself/herself to the interviewer for the procurement of the job at hand. A professional tries to sell himself/herself to the Managing Director through excellent performance at the...
Money Morning submits: by Mike Caggeso Struggling U.S. financials Citigroup Inc. C and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. MER may get another equity injection from state-owned Kuwait Investment Authority [KIA], the fund’s managing director told Reuters. by Money Morning
Federal-Mogul Corp. had already recognized a $1.6 billion liability for asbestos-litigation costs when it filed for bankruptcy. But that expenditure got it no closer to ending these liabilities. The nature of asbestos claims is such that companies rarely solve their problem, no matter how much they pay out. But after...
Looking for a niche in a big, competitive field? Andrew Kline has done just that. As senior managing director of investment bank Park Lane, the former offensive lineman for the St. Louis Rams advises corporations and high net worth individuals who are looking to buy and sell properties in the...
Seven Network Ltd has pointed to a possible successor for chief executive David Leckie after it announced a range of senior management appointments.Mr Leckie announced on Tuesday a series of changes to the company's management structure, which he said "reflects Seven Media Group's increasing integration across broadcast television with...
It can be weeks, months or indeed years before some employees catch sight of their managing director. But ScottishPower, the international energy company which employs 14,000 people and serves five million homes and businesses in the UK and in the western United States, has found a way to ensure they...
The Intranet Benchmarking Forum IBF was set up in London in 2002 by Paul Miller, the founder and managing director of the Empowerment Group the company that has developed the IBF. The basic idea behind the IBF is to develop some quantitative benchmarks for intranets that will enable large corporations...
In PIMCO Managing Director Bill Gross's monthly market commentary for August 2008, the 'Bond King' comments on what will ease the credit crisis: Aside from cyclical contractions and a brief bout of deflationary monetary policy in the Volkerian 80s, credit has always been available and at a relatively cheap price....
(10min 43) Click on "Play" above to hear the podcast. Psychometric tests can evaluate your personality in the workplace. Does this make it a useful tool for recruiting the right sort of person for your business? A very fiery red Phil Dobbie talks to...
The Bank and the Fund have worked together since their creation in the 1940s. Over the years, as their missions converged in some areas, it became important to define the rules of engagement and the division of labor between the two institutions. These have been articulated in a series of...
The Find: Assessing and planning for a firm's long-term talent needs rather than simply filling vacancies will be the role of successful HR departments in the future. The Source: A study from the Adecco Institute based on interviews with more than 5,000 HR professionals, along with an...
Should UK Boards Follow Cameron's Lead?Women in senior postsAs Managing Director of my own business and Chairman of three others it matters not one jot if board members are male or female, tall or small, black, white or any other colour. The only question that needs to be answered...
The Find: If you want to get to the top of a large UK company, stay away from a new-fangled interest in soft skills and stick to mastering finance. The Source: An analysis of the career paths of the CEOs atop the FTSE 100...
The 2008 MOSAIC analysis showed the emergence of three consumer groups --- Freemales, Spuds and Salary Miners. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie asks Graham Plant, Managing Director of Pacific Micromarketing, to explain what these groups are and how demographic tools like MOSAIC compare with psychographic based techniques for segmenting...
Hard Assets Investor submits: Diane Swonk is the chief economist and senior managing director of Mesirow Financial, a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago with $32.2 billion in assets under management. Her job entails working internally and externally with clients to manage economic risk. She was previously...
This case study defines about the new method know as instant messaging which is used to go for two way communication easily so increase the sales. A consortium of eight Wall Street firms is about to transform the way buyers and sellers of fixed-income securities...
