Hints and tips:
...Marjorie Scardino, the former chief executive of Pearson (former owner of the Financial Times), gave him a tip that has been key to his leadership....
...After succeeding Marjorie Scardino at the start of 2013, Mr Fallon gradually sold assets such as Penguin, the Financial Times and a stake in The Economist, transforming the media conglomerate into a slimmer...
...Pearson mostly prospered under his leadership, but as the tide turned increasingly against conglomerates Barlow stepped down in favour of Marjorie Scardino, whom he knew well, and who accelerated the process...
...At the time, the FTSE 100 had a single female chief executive, Pearson boss Marjorie Scardino, and there were no female bank bosses....
...The pay of Mr Fallon, who became chief executive in 2013, had previously not risen above £1.9m, significantly lower than that of his predecessor, Marjorie Scardino, who was paid £5.3m during her final full...
...Come along, Marjorie — everyone else has thrown their hat in the ring.”...
...Twitter has reshuffled its board, appointing former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former World Bank chief Robert Zoellick as directors and saying Dame Marjorie Scardino, former Pearson...
...Our City editor gave the game away with his caption for a picture of Marjorie Scardino and Rona Fairhead, then Pearson’s chief executive and chief financial officer, fresh from reporting the results of their...
...Château Latour, Madame Tussauds, Lazard Brothers, FTSE International and the Financial Times have been disposed of in pursuit of a strategy put in place by Dame Marjorie Scardino and now being overseen by...
...Mr Kordestani also said that Marjorie Scardino, the former Pearson chief executive, will be appointed the lead independent director following Twitter’s 2016 annual meeting....
...Baroness Lane Fox is the board’s second woman member, after Marjorie Scardino, former chief executive of Pearson, joined in late 2013....
...Other members include former Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino and Sheila Bair, former head of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
.... 2010 Pearson sells stake in Interactive Data for $2bn. 2011 Pearson sells its 50 per cent stake in FTSE International for £450m. 2013 John Fallon succeeds Dame Marjorie Scardino as chief executive....
...Dame Marjorie Scardino, a former journalist and Economist chief executive who ran Pearson for the previous 16 years, once vowed that the FT would be sold “over my dead body”....
...Pearson’s former chief executive, Marjorie Scardino, famously said the newspaper would be sold ”over my dead body”....
...Unlike Dame Marjorie Scardino, his predecessor, Mr Fallon never committed to the FT’s ownership as forcefully as she did....
...Dame Marjorie Scardino, former chief executive of Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, will also join the PureTech board on Tuesday as senior independent director alongside her boardroom roles at Twitter...
...Lord Coe, the former Tory MP who led the London 2012 Olympics, Sir Peter Bazalgette, the head of the Arts Council, and Dame Marjorie Scardino, the former chief executive of Pearson, owner of the Financial...
...Leading candidates – including Lord Coe, the former Olympic athlete and Tory MP, and Dame Marjorie Scardino, former chief executive of Pearson, owner of the Financial Times – withdrew citing other commitments...
...Last year, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, became Facebook’s second female director and Twitter appointed former Pearson chief Marjorie Scardino to its...
...Scardino, the former chief executive of Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times....
...Analysts have questioned whether strong growth under previous chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino would be continued under the leadership of John Fallon, who took over as chief executive at the start...
...Scardino, the former chief executive of Pearson, owner of the Financial Times....
...The reorganisation gives a clearer indication of the strategy being adopted by John Fallon, the former head of the group’s international education unit who replaced Dame Marjorie Scardino as chief executive...
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