Hints and tips:
...The 133-year-old Swiss bank had interviewed Credit Suisse’s then hotshot head of wealth management, Iqbal Khan, for the role, but ended up settling on the relatively unknown insider Rickenbacher....
...Citi’s pursuit of hotshot lawyers started in 1971 when two of its private bankers had the brilliant idea to court partners from white-shoe law firms whom they figured had rich clients they could refer to...
...The former is an LA hotshot with a deluxe modern mansion, the latter a small-town stable owner with a high-school sweetheart husband (Matt Bomer) and a daughter....
...Chris Patten, then chairman, fondly remembers Mr Davie’s steely manner with “hotshot presenters”. “Some at the BBC curled their lip at Tim’s commercial background,” he says....
...OneMain believes its decades of consumer underwriting experience give it a leg up over the new hotshot lenders that have emerged in recent years....
...The company is set to be surpassed by hotshot Silicon Valley outsourcers like Workday....
...One is an achingly cool 27-year-old tech hotshot who likes sports cars and flies helicopters. The other is a 69-year-old economist, with a penchant for jaunty bow ties and a chin curtain beard....
...And if the private equity hotshots want some tips, the previous management may be no further than a ClubCorp driving range. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers....
...Even among the hotshots there are puzzling features. As CreditSights points out, Apple’s longer-dated debt trades surprisingly tightly....
Hotshots from Snapchat and Stanford to lead machine learning for cloud computing unit
...And that adjustment in the wireless operating model has not escaped the attention of the hotshots on Wall Street....
...Hotshot MBAs should not throw out their business suits just yet. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...That latter move was both canny and striking since earlier in his career Winters was part of a group of young, hotshot JPMorgan derivatives traders who pioneered innovations such as credit derivatives....
...Better for Hank Greenberg at AIG not to have hired those hotshot Drexel Burnham Lambert derivative specialists and for Fred Goodwin of RBS not to have paid cash for ABN Amro....
...For example, hotshot recruits who pile 20 functions into a single cell, because they think that is what a star analyst does, are typically rebuked....
...Corporate person in the news: David Karp David Karp, the latest 20-something internet hotshot to hit the billion-dollar jackpot, is far from being an overnight sensation, writes Richard Waters....
...That Workday’s stock market debut is the biggest since this spring’s Facebook debacle – and that it marks a swing in Wall Street favour away from hotshot consumer internet concerns towards more staid tech...
...The only reason to bring on such a person is to turn Yahoo into a place where hotshots with ideas can come and receive lots of funding for trying those ideas on a huge audience – and get lots of stock options...
...Corporette (Kat Griffin)Unique users per month: 137,000Ex-hotshot litigator turned working wardrobe guru, Ms Griffin’s big break came when a prominent US federal judge advised all young female lawyers to...
...When he discusses leadership, Mr Novak says one of his favourite tools is the “hotshot” question, where he asks someone to imagine what a hotshot successor would do with their job....
...Google, close by, occupies a campus once used by Silicon Graphics, a hotshot maker of workstations that flamed out and eventually went into bankruptcy....
...Hotshot bicycle-messenger favourite Cannondale introduced its own ebike line this summer....
...Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford University professor and former SEC commissioner (whom the judge once jokingly called “some hotshot professor”), is a persistent critic....
...With a starry cast, a hotshot director in David Fincher, who directed Seven, and a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin, who wrote The West Wing, expectations are high that the film’s box-office performance...
...Forget about trying to spot the next hotshot dealmakers – M&A in 2010 will be driven by the often-faceless shareholder....
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