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Managing Millenials
After the release of his first book in 1995, "Managing Generation X," Bruce Tulgan received an unexpected call. "Hi, I'm calling from Jack Welch's office at GE," a woman told Tulgan, then 28. "He's...
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Morgan's Runaway Bankers Hiring
Times of turmoil always offer misery to some and opportunity for others.For a group of Morgan Stanley managing directors, the straits the bank is in has driven them to leave and form their own advisory...
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Investigators Focusing on Money Transfers at MF Global
CHICAGO—Investigators probing the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd. are scrutinizing two money transfers made during the securities firm's final days in an effort to uncover what happened to $1.6...
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Traditional Banks Face New Competition
If financial workers didn't have enough to worry about with the European debt crisis, yet another threat to their job security is emerging from the technology industry and people like Brian Merritt --...
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Some Hope at Hedge Funds
As hedge funds hire this year, they'll focus on a very specific area: operational risk. UBS and MF Global made risk a big theme in 2011, and, although those institutions aren't hedge funds, their...
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UBS Investment Banking Head to Leave
Jimmy Neissa, one of the global heads of investment banking at UBS AG, will be leaving the bank at the end of March after 11 years at the firm, people familiar with the matter said. Neissa wanted to...
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States Tackle Discrimination Against Unemployed
If you're unemployed, you know how hard it is to find a job. Not just because many people are vying for the same one, but because companies are able to say they won't hire someone who currently doesn't...
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The Job-Hunt Resources College Grads Neglect
For college students and recent graduates, getting going at the beginning of a job hunt can be the hardest part of the search. Whether you're distracted by semesters abroad, hefty class schedules or...
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CFOs Aren't Just Number Crunchers Anymore
It's time to change the way we think about CFOs—and the way they think about themselves.The current view—which gets pushed by business schools and carried into the executive suite—sees finance officers...
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Another MF Global Money Transfer Draws Interest
As MF Global Holdings Ltd. struggled to stay alive, mid-level finance officials in Chicago moved $325 million from customer accounts, according to internal firm emails, documents and people familiar...
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HSBC Chooses Its Priorities
If you want to know a firm's priorities, follow the money. HSBC is sinking money into emerging markets like China, India and Brazil while paring back its expenses in Britain, the Financial Times...
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Managing Millennials
After the release of his first book in 1995, "Managing Generation X," Bruce Tulgan received an unexpected call. "Hi, I'm calling from Jack Welch's office at GE," a woman told Tulgan, then 28. "He's...
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Private Equity Firms to Slow Hiring
Only a month into his second year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, masters of business administration candidate David George managed to land - and ultimately accepted - an offer to serve as...
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Hiring at Hedge Funds, New Boutiques and for College Grads
Tip: Some Hope at Hedge FundsMF Global and UBS sounded a warning call for hedge funds: Make sure your risk management people are up to speed. That call has translated into demand for operational risk...
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J.P. Morgan Trims Branch Expansion
J.P. Morgan will pare back its branch expansion strategy across the U.S., concentrating on locations in a few key states, bank officials said yesterday.Todd Maclin, the firm's head of consumer and...
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Wall Street Bonuses to Drop by 14%
Wall Street cash bonuses for 2011 are expected to have tumbled 14% from a year earlier and will likely hit their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2008, according to a report released by New...
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Happy Times at Standard Chartered
Cue the jubilance in the U.K. and the (emerging) world over.British bank Standard Chartered reported record earnings in its corporate and consumer banking units for the eighth year in a row. It plans...
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Money Goes Missing at MF Global
At 4:53 p.m. five days before MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, an employee in its Chicago office asked a co-worker to move $165 million from one of the securities firm's bank accounts to...
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The Trick to Getting into Harvard Business School
Only 12% of applicants made it into Harvard Business School last year. It's Dee Leopold's job to separate the wheat from the chaff. Leopold, managing director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid at...
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Building Chaos at MF Global
Key Chicago employees were away and a significant transaction was botched in the lead up to a deficit in MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s customer accounts, according to internal emails, documents and people...
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