Anil Kumar pleaded guilty in January to providing Rajaratnam with information about pending mergers…
The specialists have it when it comes to thought leadership…
Ever get the impression they don’t know what you’re on about…
With financial services in the doldrums last year, management consultancies had a miserable time…
In business when someone smiles and shakes your hand assuring you that they have heard and will act upon your recommendation or concerns when in truth you have already been ignored and dismissed.
Here are the top 12 (we went 12 instead of 10 to make sure more than a measly 1 UK school made it in):
Just what the doctor ordered…
Federal authorities in New York arrested a Manhattan McKinsey & Co. consultant in January for allegedly helping send millions of dollars in cash to Iran for personal clients unrelated to the firm.
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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