Excellence, which started as an internal project at McKinsey, the consulting firm, caught fire at a time when there was a widespread view that American business could do nothing right and that Japan was the fount of management wisdom.
This year Wipro Spectramind, an Indian call-centre firm, caught some of its workers making unauthorised offers in phone calls marketing services for its client, Capital One, an American financial-services firm.In the areas of biggest concern to banks and their customers, however credit-card fraud and identity thowever credit-cardn fraudeported incidents, and these have been small.
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Riverstone Holdings, another firm caught up in the case, paid a $30 million settlement last month.
My firm caught on in mid-2006.
(If that sounds odd, Cablevision, another firm caught up in the scandal, reportedly gave options retrospectively to an executive after his death).
As assets swelled, the firm caught the eye of Mr. Duff's former employer, Morgan Stanley, which took an ownership stake for $400 million in late 2006.
The rival firm caught on to what he was doing, and Mr. Pimsler was convicted of criminal impersonation in 1999 and disbarred.
But Sirius XM is not just another firm caught out by the near-impossibility of rolling over big debts in the midst of the credit crunch: it faces even bigger worries.Mr Malone, who amassed a fortune by building and selling a cable-television empire, is more of a dealmaker than a technology visionary.
