Human resources departments are bringing analytics into the tasks of corporate hiring, retention and promotion, and the insurance sector is using data to influence customers into better driving habits.
In The Sunday Mirror, a columnist noted that Sir Peter ended Sainsbury's practice of giving Christmas bonuses to workers and was a member of a task force of corporate leaders that pondered the issue of excessive pay for executives.
The questions raised by Ford are part of a larger debate about whether jurors, lacking in technical and economic training, should be entrusted with the task of punishing corporate wrongdoing.
[Page C3.] Cisco and I.B.M. in Joint Venture Cisco and I.B.M. are expected to announce today that they will jointly develop open software standards intended to simplify the increasingly complex task of managing corporate data networks.
I.B.M. and Cisco Systems are expected to announce today that they will jointly develop and promote open software standards intended to simplify the increasingly complex task of managing corporate data networks.
While there is nothing illegal about an analyst advising a chief executive on how to approach a conference call, providing such detailed coaching, as the e-mail message does, is highly unusual and seems to indicate that Mr. Grubman considered himself a close adviser to Mr. Ebbers, playing a role that would normally be the task of a corporate insider or public relations specialist.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, his Davis Global Advisors (www.davisglobal.com) is dedicated to the task of improving corporate accountability to shareholders around the world.
Even so, the task of predicting corporate profits isn't made any easier by the war in the Persian Gulf, volatile energy prices and the erratic economy.
The book mediation was the kind of highly personal task that corporate chieftains ask only of their most loyal counselors.
Hallett said that in Singapore the task of providing exquisite corporate hospitality was made easier because "we have five-star hotels such as the Ritz Carlton, the Shangri La, the Hilton, catering for our guests along with one of the top French restaurants in town, Les Amis".
The first task for Mr. Dörig, Credit Suisse's chief of corporate and retail banking, will be to oversee a last-gasp capital increase of 1.2 billion francs ($820.6 million) that is necessary to keep Switzerland's largest life insurer alive.
