the firm

"Employees have the feeling that they are partners in the firm and that at least a small piece of the company belongs to them, " he says.

For a brief time Friday, it seemed as if MF Global might have uncovered the funds at J. P. Morgan, which housed the firm's client balances.

An Arrow spokesman said the firm does not comment on media speculation and added that discussions are continuing.

In the current economic downturn, the firm has no doubt already laid off a good number of bright young peo-ple like Ms Clinton.

A spokesman for MF Global said the firm is cooperating with regulators and the bankruptcy trustee trying to find the missing money.

Flamand is setting up his own hedge fund and a Goldman Sachs executive in London said last month that the firm supports Flamand's plan.

Since the firm's handset business also tends to be slow early in the year, Sanjay Jha, its boss, expects a loss in the first quarter.

The firm's recent acquisition of Medstory, a vertical-search engine focusing on health care, has given it a boost in this area.

Scrounging for work, he called lawyers in the firm's other practice areas, trying to market himself to pick up hours.

Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and chief executive, said the bank was 'taking all appropriate steps to defend the firm and its reputation.

KKR is now hoping the New York listing will value the firm at $15bn-$19bn, according to people familiar with the matter.

He said the firm was cooperating with the investigation.

His departure also raises the question of whether the firm's film and television assets will be as well-managed and profitable in future.

This week, in a nod to the French, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, said the firm's takeover offer complied with market rules.

Suppose further that Richard Fuld, the firm's chief executive officer, was one of the perps.

But if the deal closes, the firm plans to pay a special dividend that will cover the cost of buying out those who did not participate.

How much light does "The Nature of the Firm" throw on today's corporate landscape?

Indeed, rather than sounding contrite about the firm's losses, Ms. Callan was quick to say it is ready to again play offense in markets.

It is still trying to figure out how it can use this information to make money, says Rod Ebrahimi, one of the firm's founders.

Hank Paulson, now America's treasury secretary, is said to have visited China at least 70 times when he was the firm's chief executive.

He tried to expand the firm quickly , but his staff did not have enough experience. Production got out of hand and he went bankrupt.

Mr. Madoff's brother and niece held positions at the firm as of this month, and his wife earlier did.

The growing gloom spurred some of Bear Stearns's trading partners to try to get out of transactions with the firm.

At the bottom of the firm's pecking order, he had no say whatever in the matter.

Instead, he said, the firm's profitability comes from 'a view and idea on the markets. '

He took over the firm in 1989, and promptly started expanding. Sales went through the roof, with store openings all over the country.

Matthew Turner, Sky's head of digital marketing, expects half the firm's online budget to go on real-time bidding within two or three years.

In 2008, the firm stated that it had not cooperated with the NSA in its Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Efforts to get information from the firm since the bankruptcy filing have been 'difficult and disappointing, ' he said.

In absolute terms, the company's cash position is larger than any other tech company's and amounts to 19% of the firm's enterprise value.

Background: As a result of your good performance in previous work, the firm manager has asked you to perform the network manager.

How much lasting damage has all this done to the firm?

He declined to say how much the firm had seen in inflows.

The general manager called on his staff for dedication to the firm during the time of the crisis.

For a time, his wife, Ruth, supervised the firm's bank accounts.

Speculation is growing that the firm will have to sacrifice one of its top men if it wants to stop the bombardment.

Clever licensing terms are supposed to ensure that this standard does not splinter and that the firm still makes money.

The firm was killing it, which is to say there was more money than you could shake a stick at.

Setting budget exchange rates is often linked to the firm's sensitivities and benchmarking priorities.

When he founded the firm he said he wanted to put "a computer on every desk and in every home. "

Paul Golby, E. ON's chief executive, has admitted the firm would not build Kingsnorth if it did not win the competition.

Morris told me that the firm is currently working with a Dutch riot-shield manufacturer to produce a riot-ready Mosquito.

The only positive thing about its latest announcement is that it shows the firm is at last beginning to face reality.

A spokesman for Blue Coat Systems said the firm had not seen the final report and was not prepared to comment.

Others argue that the firm, Japan's biggest brokerage, will miss out on any rebound in the markets if it cuts too deeply.

This, explains Kenneth Aldrich, the firm's boss, is something that could not be implanted into a woman's womb and produce a child.

One of the reasons it was considered inadequate was that the firm was only looking for evidence of the absence of the previous compound.

An ex-employee of a property firm said he was sacked for his ideas on climate change; the firm denied any such motive.

Several times a week, he sat down with traders who had bet a lot of the firm's money, questioning them about strategy and results.

I informed him I had had the honour of being in the firm twenty years, to which he insolently replied that I "looked it. "

The firm came out on top of a Greenpeace survey aimed at finding the most environmentally friendly manufacturers.

But this did not keep the firm from crossing the line, at least in the opinion of the European Commission.

Such free cash flow must be paid out to shareholders if the firm is to be efficient and to maximize value for shareholders.

The attack on BP seems to have paid off for the administration, in that the firm has caved in to most of its demands.

Not getting that job turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the firm went out of business only a few months later.

One of her acquaintances, a salesman in the firm, was going through a very messy divorce and was very depressed.

Mr Blankfein at Goldman acknowledges that some of the young traders at the firm have no memory of a business cycle.

Cisco is trying to demonstrate that point in Songdo City near Seoul, where the firm provides all the digital plumbing.

Mr. Chu said the firm is close to reaching agreements with a few regional governments that will act as fund sponsors.

I did not believe in her back then and thought she was just trying to encourage me to stay with the firm.

There was no news release -- just a single-sentence update to a company blog post featured on the firm's investor-relations Web page.

With its shares now around 10p, down from 85p a year ago, the firm may sell its book chain, Waterstone's, and close at least 40 HMV stores.

The firm's roots and most of its profits lay in making memory chips; Intel's microprocessor group was just a small niche.

you do not like the pursuit of the good and show concern for the firm and declined to say no.

There was little doubt but that an agreement to sell or shore up the firm had to be reached over the weekend.

As for Goldman's culpability, or that of particular executives at the firm, I would prefer to wait until all the evidence is in.

These records now clearly revealed that the employee's claim was entirely illegitimate; if anyone had a claim to make, it was the firm.

But I told him I was only mate, and that she belonged to the firm of Morrel & Son.

Past a certain day and you will no longer have my life, when the firm was unlikely to face this moment of my time, I do not know what I?

The firm's focus over the past two years on the production of infant formula, he said, was one example of this approach.

S& P said the accidental alert isn't an indication that the firm is reviewing France for a rating change.

Blankfein, who left one of his trademark voicemail messages for the firm's employees late Tuesday night, did not appear to be backing down.

Chief executive Tony Hayward said the firm expected the global economic recovery to be "long and drawn out" .

A spokesman for Burberry said the firm had no plans for a line of ferret accessories, but "that's not to say there won't be" .

But he said the firm didn't consider special protections for teens.

Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm.

Since the first incident 18 months ago there have been 11 complaints, said the firm, which gave no details on its inspection regime.

The selection of James Cornelius as interim chief executive fuelled speculation that the board is ready to sell the firm.

In case the firm is not able to handle the matter, we shall consider the firm you recommended.

But he seems to have tapped on the brake. He no longer talks about increasing the number of new markets the firm enters to 50 and beyond.

One is how much the retail part of a bank could lend to the rest of the firm.

David Sun, E&Y's co-managing partner for the Far East, said the firm was "dismayed by the unexpected circumstances that have arisen" .

The firm looked into the matter, decided the associate had acted in a way that was "deeply inappropriate" and fired him.

Rather than envisaging the family as if it were a firm, maybe the firm should be rethought as a family.

He tried to expand the firm quickly, but his stuff did not have enough experience. Production got out of hand and he went bankrupt.

Even the next generation of management gurus seems to have benefited from a spell at the Firm.

The firm said the bottles could be processed on machines used for PET.

Steve Jobs, the firm's iconic boss, is to quit the daily grind, at least for a while, to focus on his health.

I hold high the banner of the firm, the next planting yesterday, today and tomorrow, I Fengman overlap with its own universe.

The firm has been able to control the price of music, boosting sales of iPods but not bringing the record companies a great deal of money.

A DLA Piper spokesman said the firm did not comment on pending litigation.

"Even if face end, or are willing to give it a go, and not for it that the firm faith" .

While to the average citizen that means the company is dead and gone, the firm is still haunting several of its Wall Street brethren.

Chipchase had the pick of the firm's studios around the world, but says there was no doubt that he wanted to be in China.

How much money did illegal actions earn the firm?

Many contracts also utilize vesting and non compete clauses to make it costly for the entrepreneur to leave the firm.

He said he's not fearful of the press or criticism but he didn't appreciate its impact on the firm's companies.

The division now contributes close to a third of the firm's total profits, according to an executive at the company.

The task is complicated by the fact that the firm used some of these as collateral for its own loans.

"You are not getting what you think you are buying, " said the firm's director of research, Dave Marcus.

Having made all the money he wanted, Jack left the firm, enrolling at Georgetown University for his doctorate courses in history.

Volvo will continue to be headquartered in Gothenburg and a strong-looking board will set the firm's strategy.

The verdict on Mr Fuld, that he was driven not by greed but by "an overpowering desire to preserve the firm he loved" , seems too gentle.

Investment will also be made to help the firm anticipate the next stages of health and safety compliance.

For instance, the firm allows members to use their Facebook profiles to log into other sites around the web, creating a sort of passport.

But people familiar with the firm reckon it could have pulled off the deal had it been able to limit itself to buying half of Continental.

On March 12, Valdivieso received a memo explaining that the sagging national economy had forced the firm to defer his position for a year.

Third, the consumable must be subject to adoration, at least in the eyes of the firm's potentially loyal consumers.

And while Starbucks has expanded so have its rivals. The firm's home market seems to have reached saturation point.

The firm seems to be announcing out loud that it plans to trade against its clients.

He took in plenty of velvet when he worked for the firm.

To avoid possible losses, the bank is forced to bribe the firm to stop the project, but this may reduce the firm's effort.

Lehman emailed him, he said, saying the firm had revalued its KSK stake based on an 'expected' pre-IPO financing as well as other factors.

It will be a year before the firm makes a profit but at least it's breaking even .

"Agents said the United Kingdom was the country in which they placed the most students, " according to Will Archer, the firm's director.

"The enthusiasm of Wal-Mart associates toward their jobs is one of the company's greatest assets, " declared the firm's 1973 annual report.

Being a partnership is such a "remarkable privilege" that the firm is "happy to have its structure dictate strategy. "

Exhibits include Elvis Presley's motorcycle and a 13-foot-long bike known as King Kong. The firm is expecting 350, 000 visitors a year.

Lehman officials said they believed the firm had not one but two potential buyers: Bank of America and Barclays, the big British bank.

The firm's "results are very disappointing -- the worst so far in the investment banking sector, " analysts at JPMorgan wrote in a report.

The firm is one of a growing number of internet start-ups that mine unconventional forms of data to offer financial services.

Though the boss approved of this project it had to be abandoned mainly because the firm was short of extra finance.

The firm's leaders decided to try to rebuild KBW into a larger version of what it was before.

Public-relations staff say there was a misunderstanding and that the firm simply wants to offer equal opportunities to all.

Her excellent performance soon took her to the top management of the firm.

A Carlyle spokesman said the firm is 'satisfied' with Yashili's performance and has 'confidence' in its future.

"As the firm got bigger, there were all of these lawyers who I didn't know suddenly showing up on my bills, " Mr. Victor said.

If two people can't work together one of them will have to leave the firm.

The police suspect the men targeted the firm knowing it was holding the money, and the investigation continues.

and a set of "private" ones for Google's managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

TPG bought the firm as a joint venture with an entrepreneur in 2006 just as the demand for cars began to soar in China.

Doubtless he also made a joke when he told the firm's board that he would step down at the end of the year.

Their future is closely bound up with that of the firm they work for.

He laid a course which, he felt, would take him to the top echelons of the firm.

The firm collected too much data, kept it too long, did not encrypt it, lacked password protections and left its wireless network open.

Asked whether the firm is confident that there will be a market for all this steel, he looks puzzled.

She's had a chip on her shoulder ever since the firm wouldn't meet her expenses claim for travelling to and from work.

Most hedge funds do not mandate posture, but partners often encourage one another to sign them, to protect both the firm and themselves.

Entrepreneurs must remember, he said, that resources have costs that must be borne by the firm.

In the early 1990s it embarked on a drive to retain and promote women, whose high turnover was costing the firm millions of dollars a year.

But the firm said the Guardian's reporting on the issue had been "highly misleading" .

The firm's DNA may have mutated to the point where it works against all of those worthy principles, particularly client-centricity.

The firm expects more stable production over the coming quarters, with growth returning around the end of the year.

A venture-capital firm won't step in until the firm is ready to raise maybe ten times that amount.

Well the firm's Karsten Brinkshurt came in earlier and he was armed with one of his mobile manager equipped phones.

The firm, this person said, had not set final targets for layoffs, but Goldman was "certain" to shrink headcount in the coming months.

The firm's engineers realised that the solution was staring them in the face: the search results on which users actually clicked and stayed.

For over a year, he has been pressing GM's chairman, Rick Wagoner, to turn the firm around.

The firm's two founders and much of its engineering staff were too emotionally wedded to its past successes to make a break.

Someone, possibly from the firm, taped a $2 bill to the door of the company's headquarters.

So far the firm has put up all the money; in the future it may invest with a venture-capital firm.

An audit of the firm's server logs revealed an alarming amount of unexplained logins from China into the company's virtual private network.

So he asked the firm's newly acquired star technical analyst to sit with him during the trading day and teach him technical trading.

Audit risk, the firm address, the audit period, whether or not to provide non-audit services to audit fees do not have significant impact.

The deputy manager ran the firm for (ie instead of) him while he was ill.

The problem was that most of AOL's page views were being generated by the firm's subscribers rather than by random internet surfers.

The bank also had another swap strategy involving Italian stocks that generated financial benefits for the firm itself.

People close to Goldman say there was no financial impact on the firm.

The bank could then purchase the publicly traded debt of the firm at 60% of face value and deliver it to settle the credit default swap.

It calls them its "beating heart" and strokes them deftly: when one performs exceptionally, the firm writes to congratulate his wife.

The firm believes it could have one of the year's must-have toys on its hands with the interactive plush product.

Economic rents are the returns above those necessary to keep the underlying assets available to the firm in the long run.

David Viniar, the firm's chief financial officer, said the conditions in most main financial markets were the best in 25 years.

Earlier this year the firm wouldn't extend credit to a real estate agent in Florida who made $2 million a year.

Over the next three years, the firm is to spend millions to crack the domestic and international markets, with the help of state investment.

Other rewards at the firm include movie tickets, a paid day off on a birthday, and a trip to Kansas City in appreciation for a project.

In July Martin Broughton, BA's chairman, said the firm faced "perhaps the biggest crisis the aviation industry has ever known" .

So far the firm's core book value (the value of its assets) is about equal to that, suggesting that the investment is covered.

Breaking up the firm along these lines would turn the rump of Telecom Italia into a customer-facing retail business.

He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people had already left.

At the time it asked those affected by the Hotmail glitches to tell the firm what type of internet connection and ISP they were using.

But last July the firm confirmed that it too was developing a plug-in, though it has not committed itself to a commercial launch.

temporarily not with the firm. At least not until the next exam.

Like most of its rivals, the firm has passed some of the price increases on to its clients.

The implicit threat is that if the firm does not stump up, the knowledge might end up in disreputable hands.

He is often absent from work, so he is laid off by the firm.

If Goldman has lost its ability to be trusted, it's going to be very tough for the firm to continue.

The firm essentially shut down in September, despite having a heavy backlog of orders.

Leave may be taken at a time to be approved by the firm when work commitments of the firm permit.

An adviser to Agincourt said the recent volatility in the high-yield market played no role in the firm's decision to postpone the offering.

Gene Banks was a slender, friendly, soft-spoken guy in his late thirties whose job was to track the economy for the firm.

Mr. Thain said the firm faced continuing losses, but they weren't unusual, given upheaval in the markets, directors recall.

Integrating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is still one of the biggest challenges facing the firm, analysts said.

About a year later, the firm was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems.

That is expected to pick up in speed, say people close to the firm, as it weighs adding new trading teams.

The firm said the group will address the large, scale, photovoltaic system solutions market, and will be headed by Jens Meyerhoff.

The firm is now able to manufacture both containers and closures, making it more appealing to client companies.

As decades passed, the firm leveraged its core competencies and global reputation. Offices were opened around the U.

There was, in fact, a vigorous debate within Goldman about the right level, just as there was over the firm's overall risk levels.

The firm said the advances would improve production efficiency and quality, increase output and cut waste.

All the firm really got out of it was my everlasting gratitude and some legal business defending me when I became President.

I would like to once again host the Olympics in Tokyo in an attempt to ensure the firm revitalization of Japan and new global prosperity.

Mr. Cheah, a co-founder of the firm, was among the executives selling stakes in the company.

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

But the firm will probably give Indian real estate a miss as it feels the potential returns do not compensate for the risks.

It is certainly worth seeking the advice of a couple of the former chief executives who have worked with the firm for a number of years.

The firm is now exploring other ways of meeting the ambitious targets that it has set for generating energy from renewable sources.

Mr Schultz remains hostile to unions, but has decided to maintain the firm's popular health benefits, while cutting his own pay.

But for those who have built the firm up to its giddy heights, the rewards must seem more palpable.

Undeterred by the firm's headaches in Russia, he plans to open perhaps three more stores in the Moscow area in the next few years.

After coming up through the ranks, he found his own level as one of the directors of the firm.

My curiosity would make me pay for it. But I would need to be convinced by the the firm's credentials.

The firm said it did not provide trust services nor hold assets behalf of clients and it would "file our defence in court accordingly " .

Their move came a year after Mr. Kaplan, who has $69 million invested in the company, acquired 30% of the firm for $1. 30 a share.

An Interactive Brokers spokesman said the firm can't comment on individual accounts for privacy reasons.

He hopes the firm will eventually be able to wring another 10% out of the reservoir by injecting more chemicals.

So the firm has still the power to extend its monopoly should new technology, at least temporarily, again favour proprietary solutions.

Yet he denies micro-managing, insisting that critics have misconstrued his attempts to understand the details of the firm's operations.

So far in the bankruptcy, the firm has taken in $356 million, the most of any firm on the roster of professional advisers.

But the results still are out of character for the firm, and a timely reminder for investors that Goldman, too, is mortal.

For the firm in the network economy, product differentiation strategy is one of the important strategies to win the market competition.

The next day Kip sues the firm and Brian for sexual harassment, claiming Brian promised a promotion in exchange for sex.

In the latest statement, the firm recaps events leading up to the investigation and its assurances that it can be trusted.

The firm reiterated on October 7th that it had no plans to sell its operations in emerging markets.

They see them as an asset, and care about them as people and work hard to frame the mission of the firm in a way that creates meaning.

Another is "deferred pay" , whereby a top executive leaves some part of his salary in the hands of the firm, as a loan of sorts.

However , the firm's existing IT systems were antiquated and could not even support the bank's existing corporate business adequately .

the industry environment represents the conditions within the firm's industry to which the firm is exposed.

Part of the reason was the firm's image, at least in America, as a Midwestern, staid producer of pickup trucks.

But the firm (or "the Firm" , as its employees like to call it) has a proud tradition of advising bosses both expertly and discreetly.

Lisle said. The firm has 30 bankers in Australia, so the Perth office could end up representing nearly 20% of its national presence.

In a tussle over the sale of Poland's largest insurer, they replaced the firm's boss with a candidate who lacks the usual qualifications.

The first relates to the extent to which information about the firm is shared between the vendors and purchasers.

That's not what I got out of McKinsey, what I got out of McKinsey was, Marvin Bower had built the firm.

The resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival.

She joined the firm a year ago and is now my junior.

The firm needs boosting up, if it is not to be defeated by its competitors.

Another factor was that many of the firm's shareholders are short-termites, who were scared away by lowered revenue and profit forecasts.

in the firm of each employee should be equal, or even to determine whether the trial after the stay has to all staff of the Division.

Employees that leave the firm sell their phantom shares back to the company at book value and those shares are granted to other employees.

The firm has "cut off" the bits that made aggressive bets with its own capital, says Mr Gorman.

Being in Switzerland gives the firm access to ETH Zurich, a fine technical university, Mr Wittenstein says.

The forecast must be technically correct and produce forecasts accurate enough to meet the firm's needs.

Control of the firm, including the ability to set salaries, will stay with its lavishly paid executives.

A series of criminal and civil trials have raked over a massive accounting fraud at the firm for the best part of a decade.

A spokeswoman for UBS in New York said the firm was cooperating with the investigation.

"Companies are split on the question of Facebook, " says Graham Cluley, the firm's senior technology consultant.

But for that, it is necessary to make a titanic effort and have the firm decision to AWAKEN and not to fall again in the dream of the ages.

Bharti's investors seem to agree: the firm's shares fell sharply on Monday when news of discussions with Zain emerged.

Concentric diversification. Here the firm looks for new products or new markets that have synergies with its existing products or markets.

Some years ago, a group of managers decided to promote Leslie, one of the firm's administrative assistants.

Then Gates brought in Steve Ballmer, the firm's current boss, to help manage the company.

He added that the firm had also been hit by the weaker value of the pound increasing the cost of its imports from East Asia.

The firm would be brought back to life by an injection of new funds.

Indeed Rex Tillerson, the firm's chief executive, once humorously referred to biofuels as "moonshine" .

The firm also said the SEC completed a review of other collateralized debt obligations created by Goldman.

Labelled "the fastest-growing company ever" by ardent fans, the firm has turned a simple concept into a money-spinner.

The uproar this provoked only grew when a state-appointed actuary concluded that the firm's justification for the hike was bogus.

Usual spot on my face to see who does not see the past, and continue to use the firm can complete installation should be cured.

An HSBC spokeswoman said the firm doesn't comment on its vault due to 'security concerns. '