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Stuart H. Sadick, a partner at the executive search and leadership consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles, discussed the process of acclimating to the economy...
Among the passengers on US Airways Flight #1549 was Gerry McNamara, a partner at the executive recruiting firm Heidrick and Struggles. McNamara, a former U.S. Marine officer, wrote an inspirational account of his ordeal for the company's internal newsletter, and it has since been e-mailed around the country. Below, his account of that harrowing day in January...
Brace yourself. Recently booted M.B.A.s are already out there flooding the market with applications. Heidrick & Struggles, a Chicago-based executive-recruiting firm, is receiving 50% more unsolicited contacts from those seeking high-end jobs than in previous years, says Jory Marino, who heads the firm's North American office. And in case it's not painfully obvious, says Mickey Matthews, who directs North American operations for Stanton Chase International, a global executive-search firm based in Dallas, "the supply-demand imbalance certainly favors employers...
...local institutions grow, salaries in India's financial-services sector, like those in the even hotter technology sector, are skyrocketing, and turnover in many firms tops 35%. Goldman "took a different approach to hiring than most multinationals," says Luis Moniz, a Mumbai-based analyst for the human-resources consultancy Heidrick & Struggles. Most rivals tried a balanced approach, with half local hires for on-the-ground expertise and half expats to maintain a connection to the head office...
...foreign leaders and regulators to do his bidding, he was at times a tyrant too. He demanded loyalty and was capable of terrorizing the people who worked for him. "I always prepared myself to the hilt when I was to see him," says Gerard Roche, veteran executive recruiter at Heidrick & Struggles, which has placed executives at AIG. Greenberg liked to keep his meetings short--say, 10 minutes--and quickly lost patience with anyone not prepared. Then would come the famous Greenberg tongue lashing. His former daughter-in-law Nikki Finke, who knew the family throughout the 1970s and was married...