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...And if you look at the upper management ranks of all three organisations, they’re all pretty dude-heavy....
...More than that, after years of criticism from western investors, Japan’s model may emerge from the crisis more paragon than pariah....
...Nothing about his career or his wealth make sense and very little is known about his money management firm other than it only accepted billionaires as clients....
...Second, so few investors holding so much power would be worrying even if they were paragons....
...Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the company has been held up as a paragon of corporate Japan and has made 11 overseas acquisitions in the past two years....
...Three smaller deals which priced in 2016 — Paragon Commercial, Midland State and Argentina’s Grupo Supervielle — are all up....
...Barring new problems, and assuming good management, lenders like these ought to be able to trade at a decent premium to their book value....
...China rarely looks to India as a paragon of good economic management....
...The pressure is off the BBC, which once again is being held up as a paragon of high standards....
...Aberdeen Asset Management rose 4.2 per cent to 180½p on talk that its annual results on Tuesday would be positive....
...Only last week Toyota, that former paragon of quality, was forced into announcing humiliating product recalls, a sure sign that even the best companies cannot push harder and harder without something going...
...France Telecom’s $40bn bid for TeliaSonera was rejected in June by the target’s largest shareholder, the Swedish government, which backed an entrenched management....
...Toyota – normally a paragon of supply-chain management – admits to “bottlenecks”, particularly in batteries, which have slowed turnover even as drivers clamour for more fuel-efficient cars....
...‘I picked on GE to a considerable extent, as they are a paragon of corporate America, but it isn’t just GE in terms of confidence,’ Gross told Bloomberg News in March....
...The old continent has always had more than its fair share of successful multinationals that have traditionally attracted the best brains and management talents....
...Today, Sage sits alongside Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Intuit as one of the world’s top five suppliers of business management software and support to small and medium sized businesses....
...Legally, the duty of independent directors is not to fellow directors or management but to shareholders....
...That does not mean it has become a paragon of supposed Anglo-Saxon virtue....
...Hamilton), author of a dozen management books with homes in San Francisco and Malibu....
...But I doubt whether investors will believe these banks have transformed from state-run monoliths into paragons of virtue in 18 months.?...
...He started Paragon Medical in 1991, seeking the “freedom” to be his own boss....
...Much of the change has been linked to Yukos, the oil group that turned from aggressor to paragon to victim in little more than a year....
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