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...Deloitte has been training its UK team leaders in performance management, a reflection of growing pressure in a tougher economic environment....
...Revenue in consulting grew 16 per cent, to £1.6bn. Houston said the firm’s financial services, energy and resources, and public sector teams had all experienced “significant demand”....
...News round-up BP boss dismisses speculation energy major faces takeover threat (FT) Russian oligarch Alexei Kuzmichev held by French police (FT) Blackstone sells stake in €4bn Spanish hotel chain to GIC...
...Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? The New Yorker investigates....
...It already designs its own high-performance processors, called Graviton, as well as accelerators to speed up machine-learning calculations, called Trainium, putting it in direct competition with established...
...Extra spending on missiles, guns, boots and helmets — and, by the way, on the state security apparatus, police and prosecutor’s office — boosts nominal GDP growth....
...The DMU was launched in shadow form last year but cannot set bespoke rules for technology groups or police their behaviour without being put on a statutory footing....
...The Italian bank set its remuneration policy after consulting investors who own more than half its shares, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...It is time for both the economy’s performance and its prospects to be assessed in this light....
...Soon, authorities asked some of Oleg’s actors to take part in the memorials by reading eulogies and mournful poems, without consulting him. They agreed....
...Alternatives, by contrast, continue to command higher management fees and have the potential for performance-based fees....
...These performance-dependent “earn-outs” represented a third of the total price tag....
...And the commission did not consistently assess the performance of external consultants, the ECA said....
...Offices of three US consulting firms in China have been raided in recent weeks under a powerful new security law....
...Job moves The UK government has selected former Boston Consulting Group partner Marcus Bokkerink to chair the UK competition regulator after a heavily delayed two-year process that has thrown succession...
...The bank used role-playing logic games in hiring interviews and employees’ wages were tied to the performance of their clients’ loans....
...AVI said it was consulting with other shareholders and considering its response. The board said it had already considered and rejected AVI’s proposals as part of its strategic review....
...And just last week, 50 German police officers descended on DWS and its majority owner, Deutsche Bank....
...Weeks after sending the letter and just eight months into his job, however, Gayton had stepped back to a consulting role....
...Like the Greek thespians who staged lavish outdoor performances every year to honour their god of wine, the performance of US private equity funds has been uniformly excellent....
...With a team of computer, forensic and data scientists, Mr Borden is using data to prove cases of constitutional rights violations by police officers in the US and to transform how police departments serve...
...The flipside to shunning outside criticism is the need to police internal dissent....
...(Twitter) Political foul NBA teams and owners have publicly aligned themselves with social justice and anti-police brutality movements including Black Lives Matter....
...Silver Lake, which focuses on technology, has also offered to lend its consulting and advisory services to Twitter....
...Instead she lip-syncs to Higginbotham’s voice while occasionally consulting a tattered manuscript. What we hear is devastating....
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