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...that fits a strategic need can't wait forever. With stock prices no longer falling and the worst earnings news evidently behind us, bankers say, buyers and sellers of companies are better able to value assets and are eager to explore options. For example, analysts who cover J.P. Morgan Chase say the bank, stung by its exposure to investment banking, is looking for an acquisition in the consumer-lending area to diversify further...
...Morgan Chase acquired Hong Kong financial firm Jardine Fleming and then sold off its banking arm, all in the past year. But there is one part of Jardine Fleming's assets that its new parent company is holding close: its junks. Not those of the bond variety but the famous sailboats long associated with Hong Kong harbor. Companies such as J.P. Morgan and its rival HSBC entertain clients aboard well-appointed junks with colorful sails. Maeve Gallagher, J.P. Morgan's Hong Kong spokeswoman, says the junks are popular among bank employees, who get to use them when the boats aren...
...customers in 11 languages, including Portuguese and Chinese. Life-sciences and finance companies are also bolstering demand. When California-based ADAC Laboratories needed a quick Italian version of technical documents for a positron emission tomography scanner, it turned to Berlitz GlobalNET, which finished the job in 10 days. When Morgan Stanley and Prudential need translations of research reports and marketing materials into Japanese, German and other languages, they often turn to Lionbridge...
...take a look at you guys and see what your core competencies are. Most people would suggest that consulting firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain excel at offering critical, unbiased strategy advice to Fortune 500 companies. Similarly, the conventional wisdom holds that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan sell shares of companies to the public, facilitate mergers and acquisitions, and help wealthy individuals stay wealthy...
...that your average junior loan officer at Fleet Bank could do in his sleep. The real value these companies bring to the world and to their shareholders is their unmatched skill at recruiting fresh-faced young students from the Ivy League. Those lavish dinners with the managing directors, those Morgan Stanley-emblazoned squeeze balls and those endless series of first round, second round, supplemental, on-site, off-site, group, case, informational and informal interviews are what you guys do best. No one else in the world can do what you guys do when it comes to convincing the best minds...