Word: boardrooms
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...fact that Kate quits her job after deciding that you can't have it all. But, by the way, it's not male or female but merely childish to think otherwise. Pearson says she has sackfuls of mail from women who reject what they have seen in the boardroom. "Who wants to sit at ludicrous meetings in some testosterone jungle," Pearson asks, "and think of our children as problems to be handled?" She didn't make Kate a journalist like herself because, she says, "it's not ball breaking enough. I wanted a place where Human Resources has a policy...
Stewart also acknowledged the odd nature of the Business Review, which, like the Business School, straddles the boardroom and the classroom...
...market bubble. Says one spectator: "It's like a boxing match but with highly dweeby language." Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who prides himself on his real-world pragmatism, honed during 13years as head of Alcoa, belittles Lindsey's academic theories by telling war stories from his boardroom days. Inreturn, Lindsey once denounced an O'Neill suggestion as "yet another bad idea...
...market bubble. Says one spectator: "It's like a boxing match but with highly dweeby language." Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who prides himself on his real-world pragmatism, honed during 13years as head of Alcoa, belittles Lindsey's academic theories by telling war stories from his boardroom days. Inreturn, Lindsey once denounced an O'Neill suggestion as "yet another bad idea...
...organization. Little can be done without the help of a law firm that understands the local business customs--like meeting etiquette--that can baffle an American. Just ask Domenikos. During his discussions with NTT, it was not uncommon for the firm's high-ranking executives to nap around the boardroom table, leaving underlings to flesh out the deal's specifics, from the budget to the duration of the contract. Cross-border deals are also riskier. "A deal isn't a deal until money changes hands," Domenikos says...