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August 26, 2009
Bean in Barcelona
...Association. While his thoughtful speech drew on various papers and books from leading economists past and present - such as Hyman Minsky , Ben Bernanke , Alan Greenspan and boss Mervyn King - he also noted the "few Wise Owls who saw trouble coming...Bob Shiller and Bill White, ex-chief economist of the BIS. One non-economist mentioned by Mr Bean was Goldman Sachs' David Viniar , whose quote in August 2007 that they "were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves several days in... By Emiko Terazono
August 12, 2009
Serco to run London’s bike-hire scheme
...to complete installation of the 400 bike-hire sites needed within a year. TfL said 100 already had planning permission. David Brown, TfL’s managing director of surface transport, said the hire scheme would be the most sustainable, environmentally...Serco operate the Docklands Light Railway and the Woolwich Ferry and maintains traffic signals for TfL. Christopher Hyman, chief executive of Serco, said: “Through our detailed planning and careful design, we have a leading edge scheme that... By Robert Wright and Magda Ali
January 23, 2009
Eyebrow-raising director loans
...shares against personal loans suggests that none of them - some more experienced than Carphone Warehouse former deputy chairman David Ross , who triggered the crackdown - understood the rules. Prominent among those to divulge their arrangements just before...AstraZeneca shares - worth £1.7m at latest prices - against personal loans. Public-sector contract group Serco chief Chris Hyman and his wife also pledged their 85,564 shares, last worth about £380,000, as security to their bank. Many chairmen... By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono
July 8, 2009
M&S chief turns on sales pitch
...a bath let alone [a big company] shut up,” said Barry Hyman, one investor. But concerns about pay, performance and...The Universities Superannuation Scheme called for Sir David Michels, deputy chairman and senior independent director to be made chairman at least on an interim basis. “If Sir David would become the chairman, and I would become the chief executive... By Andrea Felsted and Samantha Pearson
November 26, 2005
Best-read business book ever was missing from list
From Mr Leonard Hyman. Sir, I was amazed by the space lavished on the production...how organisations really work), and, maybe, The Rise of David Levinsky (stay in touch with the market), and Bartleby the...business publication of all time; namely, Dilbert. Leonard S. Hyman, President, Private Sector Advisors, Sleepy Hollow, NY... By Leonard Hyman
May 27, 2008
Ricardian equivalence and how households spend tax giveaway
...when the markets have imposed monetary contraction regardless of the deliberations of central bankers, it is surely with Hyman Minsky and his Keynes-Fisher analysis – rather than Robert Barro and David Ricardo – that is “not a bad place to start” in assessing the desirability of relaxing fiscal rules (“King gives...
June 9, 2009
Online shoppers dash for the catwalks
...albeit at a slower pace than in 2008, when according to David Smith, director of operations at IMRG, online clothes retailing...women coming back to the online sites. According to Richard Hyman, strategic retail adviser to Deloitte: “Online retail addresses...can still steal the thunder of the pure online chains, Mr Hyman argues. “Online retail is dominated by bricks and mortar... By Andrea Felsted
February 14, 2006
Robust demand for jumbo Cisco issue
...departure from the company’s prior practices of using equity to finance its numerous acquisitions,” said Zhiping Zhao and David Reich of CreditSights. But they added that they expected Cisco to continue using cash and shares to finance future acquisitions...industry, good technology base, strong profitability and consistent cash flows, and highly liquid balance sheet,” said Bruce Hyman, analyst at S&P. The agency also said that Cisco’s record in integrating acquisitions had generally been good. The... By Richard Beales in New York
January 7, 2006
Meet the new breed of chief executive: closer to kindergarten than retirement age
...still only 43 and Serco's current chief executive, Chris Hyman, is 42. Mr Johar reckons today's pressures on chief executives...their businesses and travelling long distances to do so. Mr Hyman, for example, spends at least a third of the year visiting...55-year-olds ready to take on non-executive jobs." David Peters, managing partner of the London office at Heidrick... By Maggie Urry and Carlos Grande
January 13, 2009
Practical guide to selling property
...which has created serious competition amongst buyers, resutling in sales at around 25-30 per cent off peak price. James Hyman, partner for residential sales at Cluttons, said: “It is better to undercut the current market level and consequently generate...the market. By obtaining several valuations you can be sure that the price of your property reflects today’s market. David Bexon, managing director of email4property.co.uk, says: “Do not allow yourself to be driven by prices in your area... By Lucy Warwick-Ching and Sharlene Goff