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...firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Blackstone is a powerhouse, with $14 billion raised for private-equity investment, including a recent move into the pub division of British beermaker Scottish & Newcastle. It has also raised $4 billion for real estate investment and claims a top-tier restructuring advisory group that counts Enron and Xerox among its clients. As Blackstone tries to achieve its next goals--expanding in Europe, beefing up its mergers-and-acquisitions practice and adding new businesses--it will need the guiding hand of a manager like James. Some believe that James, whose average-guy nickname, Tony, fits his amiable...
...stock funds in Europe - with an estimated $40 billion under management - which only invest in companies they consider to be socially responsible. But there's also a far larger universe of mainstream institutional investors in both the U.S. and Europe who have started to look at corporate behavior post-Enron as part of their overall performance reviews. Total is playing to this crowd. "Investors want the best possible investment. Even if ethics is not their cup of tea, they consider companies that take into account good ethical principles to be well managed," says Jean-Pierre Cordier, the senior Total executive...
...ante into the game," says Caroline Nahas, a Korn/Ferry managing director. "Your interview and ability to match up your experience and personal qualities with the company is absolutely essential," she continues. And if you do make it to the offer table, try to keep your expectations in the post-Enron world. The compensation package is the No. 1 deal breaker. Here are a few other resume faux pas, and the percentage of recruiters who label each the "most common mistake...
...were conceivable only after the attack, and all are deserving of media scrutiny. Yet the media fairly quickly turned its attention elsewhere (new shark attacks). Now, not only has the public forgotten about the survival of al Qaeda, the failure to locate Saddam, the entire anthrax episode, Harken, Enron, the Wilson leak, and so on and so on, but on top of the forgotten stories, there are whole new ones that are barely told except on the inside pages of newspapers. Mainstream television media scarcely acknowledged the White House’s hard work in preventing the formation...
...We’d been working on this idea well before Enron put an exclamation point behind what we’re doing,” said McLean Professor of Business Administration Lynn S. Paine...