Capgemini Group has appointed Hervé Canneva as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Canneva will coordinate and lead the implementation, development and promotion of Capgemini’s Ethics & Compliance program. He will particularly take responsibility for formalizing what has been the Group’s ethical approach for the last 40 years. Hervé Canneva is also a member of the Group Management Board.

Canneva, a graduate of the ESSEC business school and a Chartered Accountant, joined the Capgemini Group in 1987. From 1984 to 1988, …

McKinsey, the top management consultant, has parted company with Anil Kumar, its former star partner who is facing criminal charges over the alleged $20m (£12m) Galleon insider trading scandal.

In October, Kumar, one of McKinsey’s most senior employees, was charged with securities fraud and conspiracy. According to the American authorities, Kumar, 51, passed secret information about the reorganisation plans of computer-chip maker AMD, one of his clients, to Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Galleon Group.

Rajaratnam, Kumar and …

This might set some kind of record for the worst email mistake anyone has ever made. Two employees at Cornell’s business school accidentally copied the entire school in on their dirty love notes.

New York Society blog GuestofaGuest.com has the entire very dirty email chain , but here are a few of the milder, PG-13 highlights from the two lovers’ love notes:

From Lisa to John: "I’ll do a private showing for you babe. just you, me, and …

With unemployment soaring, the competition for jobs is brutal, meaning there’s a lot more to interviews than small-talk and finding a weakness that’s actually a strength.

But if you think you’ve gotten tough questions, wait until you see what recent graduates are being asked at management consulting firms.

Big fish like McKinsey, Bain and Boston Consulting Group — like Google — rely on "case" style questions to choose "business analysts" (for undergraduates) and "associates" (for MBA grads).

What makes the inteview style …

The project will also give the company greater control in negotiations with suppliers, and act as an enabler for growth.

Ernesto de Abreu, Central Madeirense, which focuses on the value shopper and has stores in all of Venezuela’s major cities said, "This project will provide a technology platform that will put Central Madeirense in a position to compete with the most developed retailers around the world. We choose to work with Wipro Retail, as it has extremely strong retail experience, …

This job posting was put on the giant US classifieds site Craigslist. It’s certainly one of the more unusual posts we have seen advertising for folk with good spreadsheet skills. Here is a link to the original.

Expert in Spreadsheets
Date: 2009-11-08, 11:24PM EST
Reply to: job-ehtud-1457503611@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

We need someone to work on a complex financial project. You must be a whiz with advanced spreadsheets. We are putting together a biz plan and need to run many …

Kraft’s hostile £9.8bn takeover offer for Cadburys was dismissed by the paternalistic British confectioner yesterday. The offer was seen as derisory and ‘irritating’ to the company’s shareholders.

“Kraft’s offer does not come remotely close to reflecting the true value of our company, and involves the unattractive prospect of the absorption of Cadbury into a low growth conglomerate business model,” said Cadbury chairman Roger Carr.

Sounds like a resounding no then.

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On the basis of their product lines alone we’d support the Germans on this one. You won’t find too many fans of the garish rubber shoes in this office.

Footnoted.org (via ATL ) has been digging around in the quarterly reports of various companies following this quarter’s filings. They found this disclosure in the 10-Q (US quarterly report) of Crocs:

On May 11, 2009, Crocs Europe B.V. received a letter from Dr. Ing. H.c.F. Porsche AG (”Porsche”) claiming that the Company’s …

PwC have been officially announced as the first sponsor backing England’s bid to host the 2018 FIFA World CupTM.

PwC will act as business adviser for the campaign to host the World Cup 2018 in England. With its long track record of advising football clubs, from the top of the Premier League through to those in the lower division the 14-strong PwC team will be working to provide rigor and independent advice to various aspects of the bid, …

Deloitte UK, the business advisory firm, has an unlikely star. This weekend the film Morris: A Life With Bells On, about a Morris dancer who finds fame on the California folk circuit will be shown for the first time in London cinemas. Sanjay Shah, a Deloitte consultant plays a ‘hard man’ Morris dancer in the film.

The independent film nearly didn’t see the light of day, made on a budget of £500,000 by the husband-and-wife team of Lucy Akhurst and …

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At age 61, Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein is dead, WSJ reports.

Earlier this week the company confirmed that its boss had been hospitalized with a an irregular heartbeat that was at the time described as "serious."

Shares of Lazard (LAZ) are halted, having last traded up over 4%.

Wasserstein was a Wall Street legend. He was the driving force behind many of America’s largest takeovers in the 1980s and 1990s. He was known for giving rousing boardroom speeches, urging executives and directors …

For almost thirty years, Yale professor Edward Tufte has waged a crusade against poor chart design.

As a result, he’s radically changed the way people think about visualizing data.

Yet some of his simplest, least disputable lessons are widely unheeded today. Have you seen something similar in a recent strat meeting?

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KPMG has appointed Blair McCallum as a Partner in the European Operational Strategy Group.

McCallum joins KPMG from 3i where he was a Partner. Prior to 3i, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a founder and core leader of the McKinsey Operations Practice. Blair is one of the foremost experts on ‘lean operations.’ He has pioneered the application of lean thinking across a number of sectors, and co-authored the best-selling book “Journey to Lean: Making …

Perot Systems Corporation said that it will acquire BearingPoint Management Consulting (Shanghai) Ltd. ("BearingPoint China Consulting"), a management and technology consulting company with offices in Shanghai and Beijing.

This development follows the Sept. 21, 2009, announcement that Perot Systems will be acquired by Dell, a transaction that combines Perot Systems’ services portfolio with Dell’s global reach, significant existing services unit, and industry-leading hardware products. The overall combination will give enterprises in China access to a complete suite of IT, applications, …