Hints and tips:
...Most loathed of all are the “rank and yank” or forced ranking reviews Jack Welch controversially championed when he ran General Electric....
...Just ask the former executives, as I have, of Bear Stearns, or Lehman Brothers, or Merrill Lynch....
...For Sex and the City fans of the character Stanford Blatch, I highly recommend the two-part episode she did with Willie Garson, who played him.”...
...In late August, the bank announced that two senior executives were departing: Tom Montag, 64, the chief operating officer and the longtime head of Merrill Lynch, its investment banking subsidiary, and Anne...
...In December 2017, Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways owner IAG, called Corsia “an excellent first step”, while low-cost European carrier Ryanair has said it is a “historic breakthrough in global...
...City Insider is assured that has nothing to do with spats with the Scottish press and with Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie over her own pay package (worth £279,000) and lavish travel costs on a recent...
...Under Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, the company diversified itself, snapping up trophy assets such as NBC and electronics and broadcasting group RCA....
...For Merrill, this is the definition of irrational exuberance: For another worrying sign, look at the behaviour of hedge funds....
...The lender, which used Bank of America Merrill Lynch and its own brokerage arm to sell its IAG shares, has insisted it was under no immediate pressure to offload the stakes as Brussels had allowed it until...
...Jane Welch, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, says: “What’s happening is that UK pension funds are changing their mandates, but not changing the manager....
...Farewell Jack Welch. Farewell Sir Terry Leahy. Goodbye Lord Browne and Sir Richard Branson. I won’t miss you....
...Jack Welch, the former chief executive of General Electric, said last week: “He is a national hero.” Abbey Cohen, the Goldman Sachs strategist, said he was an “extraordinarily effective Fed chairman”....
...Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Barclays were among the employers with the largest numbers of CFA charter holders....
...Missing analysts’ expectations has been seen as unacceptable at GE since the days of Jack Welch, who handed over to Mr Immelt in 2001....
...Merrill Lynch, once a proud independent company whose bull logo adorned the main streets of middle America, was forced to sell itself to Bank of America....
...Jack Welch, the former chief executive of GE, calls him a “national hero”, while Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s $180bn bond funds, says “he has been a great Fed chairman”....
...Merrill Lynch repeated “buy” advice following a meeting with Willie Walsh, in which the BA chief executive hinted at an improvement in July bookings....
...Peter Welch, a representative from Vermont, questioned the panel on the reasons why Goldman Sachs had been able to “dodge the bullet” on the mortgage crisis while the companies they ran had failed to foresee...
...“He is sharp and cool, but not any more tough or demanding than a Jack Welch [the former head of General Electric].”...
...It was a good thing he had spent the previous nine months shadowing the outgoing chief executive Jack Welch....
...An excerpt from Clear at least provided a good example of Stanton Welch’s choreographic vision. Set to J.S....
...He was a potential successor to Jack Welch at GE and doubled sales at Home Depot, but is perhaps best remembered for the $210m compensation package he collected when he left, which infuriated some of the...
...“While this career model suited the needs of Jack Welch and his peers, it’s exceedingly problematic for women,” Hewlett writes....
...As Willie Sutton observed of robbing banks, it’s where the money is. john.gapper@ft.com...
...Willie Walsh, BA’s chief executive, has more important issues on his radar – from talks over the airline’s pension deficit to the transition to Heathrow’s new fifth terminal....
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