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...Others, such as Morgan Stanley, made more equivocal pledges to step back from the gun trade. There were, however, banks who have held back on restricting support for the firearms and ammunition trade....
...At the time, the FTSE 100 had a single female chief executive, Pearson boss Marjorie Scardino, and there were no female bank bosses....
...Colm Kelleher Former president, Morgan Stanley How are you spending the summer? A month in Ireland in west Cork, reading and golfing....
...Marjorie Strachan, head of inclusion at RBS, said that 30 per cent was “the point at which the proportion of females typically begins to influence behaviour and culture” of a business....
...In Asia’s financial centre, Hong Kong, the story changes again, says Marjorie Chang, administrative director of MBA career management centre at CUHK business school....
...With John Smutniak, recipient of The Economist’s 1999 Marjorie Deane financial journalism internship, she co-founded WordAppeal Ltd, which produces online corporate communications and other specialist texts...
...Morgan Stanley this month valued HarperCollins at $623m, estimating its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation at $125m....
...After studying history and economics at Oxford and Harvard, she joined McKinsey and ran credit card group Goldfish, which was spun out of Morgan Stanley....
...Pearson was advised by Barclays Capital and SEB was advised by Morgan Stanley. Shares in Pearson closed up 3 per cent at 962p....
...“We’re naturally cautious about the global economic conditions but we have good trading momentum, innovative products, resilient businesses and a strong balance sheet,” Marjorie Scardino, chief executive...
...Shares in Pearson, which owns the Financial Times, for example, have outperformed media peers by more than 50 per cent since Dame Marjorie Scardino took over in 1997, though they have fallen in absolute...
...The fund, Brysam Global Partners, has raised about $1 billion, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter, and JP Morgan, a Citigroup rival, is said to be a “significant” investor....
...Morgan, and by now approaching her thirties, Botin joined her father’s company - where, she told the FT, she “had to prove my worth, like everyone else”....
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