Hints and tips:
...Lisa Jardine, my tutor at Cambridge, had a big impact on me. How physically fit are you? Reasonably fit. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success? Luck also matters enormously....
...Mr Hester said the task of salvaging the bank after its disastrous over expansion and poor lending required it to offer competitive pay....
...The job cuts – combined with an expected £1bn-2bn of restructuring costs – are the worst-case scenario in plans being considered by Stephen Hester, RBS’s chief executive, who finally accepted in November...
...And although chief executive Stephen Hester is fixing what he can, too many things still conspire against him....
...Lisa pondered the failure to agree. CDOs, a whisk and SocGen: Tracy Alloway returned to Alphaville to discuss CDO cooking with SocGen’s chief financial officer Bertrand Badré....
...Lisa Jardine CBE, 67, is professor of Renaissance Studies and director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London....
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