Lawyers from the firm interviewed Mr. Fastow, Mr. Duncan from Andersen, and other people involved in the transactions.
Deutschlander says that last year his firm interviewed about a thousand people, and found forty-nine it liked, a ratio of twenty interviewees to one candidate.
Don't Play With the Boss's Stuff Alan Towers, president of TowersGroup, a Manhattan public relations firm, interviewed a woman who struck him as intelligent and poised.
Among the main officials the law firm interviewed to reach those conclusions were Mr. Duncan and Andrew S. Fastow, at the time Enron's chief financial officer.
Consultants from Egon Zehnder International, an executive recruiting and consulting firm, interviewed Citigroup directors and senior executives about their impressions of Mr. Pandit and his deputies.
Eighteen companies were singled out for special attention, and the consultants spent up to three days at each firm, interviewing everyone from the C.E.O. down to the human-resources staff.
The firm interviews a representative sample of 5,000 people each weekday to measure perceptions of different consumer brands, averaging assessments of a company's quality, value, reputation and other measures.
By Jules Koslow and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, July 11, 1953 P. 17 The personel manager of 31 export-import firm interviewing an Israeli, asked the young man what his profession in Israel had been.
Dee A. Soder, president of the CEO Perspective Group, a consulting firm, interviewed 50 directors from various companies and found that women were often the first to raise concerns about the conduct of chief executives.
But, with another electoral test perhaps little more than a year away, Mr Brown's crowd-pleasing reaction to these findings might be to spend a bit more, but not to risk too large a tax hike.* For the poll Angus Reid, a Canadian polling firm, interviewed some 500 voters in each country except America, where they interviewed 1,000; all interviews were carried out in February.
