3 Apr 2007

Lessons from a Boat Race - Or how to make teams work better together

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Can business leaders really learn from a study in which the Cambridge University boat club has been observed at work during seven-months per...
10 Feb 2007

Professionals should do well again in 2007

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The larger firms have built their staff levels from a standing start (Goldman had 56 employees in 1978 in London, Morgan Stanley had not eve...
31 Jan 2007

London vs. New York - A Tale of two Cities

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We do not think that the ascendancy of London as a financial centre to rival - and even overtake - New York should surprise anyone. The issu...
15 Jan 2007

Arbitrary bonus allocation creates legal minefield

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The Financial Services Industry is in the middle of the annual round of deciding the size of the bonus pool for its employees as well as the...
16 Nov 2006

Bonus time approaching fast

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When discussing bonus trends we always jokingly say that if all the bonus hopes in the City were to be full-filled in any given year, the bo...
29 Nov 2005

HSBC manages a smooth succession

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The promotion of Chief Executive Stephen Green to Chairman shows the dilemmas created by the governance code of practice. In an ideal world ...
11 Apr 2005

Hedge Funds a boon to employment

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As we predicted earlier in the year the job market in the financial service sector is vibrant but there is probably no net expansion in over...
9 Mar 2005

Bonus payments cannot favour the few

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Recent court decisions make it dangerous to allocate the bonus pool in a discriminatory fashion. It is sometimes said that the major share o...