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- Satyam: Merrill Lynch knew
- One of the recurring questions from yesterday’s shock revelations at Satyam was the nagging feeling that someone must have known what was going on. Late last night I started to see reports indicating that Satyam’s investment bankers Merrill Lynch knew what was going on. According to The Times of India: There’s intense speculation as to what [...]
- My Diigo Bookmarks 01/08/2009
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Adventure of Strategy: Castles of Cards
Solid list of things that firms should be thinking about for their own survival
tags: strategy
FT.com / Companies / Telecoms - Telefónica wins €350m Deutsche Post contract
Bringing down data costs eh? What about for consumers? No apparent moves there.
tags: telefónica
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- Innovation in billing: the lawyers are eating our lunch
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First up in the ABA Journal, Morgan Lewis announces it is ditching the billable hour. Well sort of. It’s de-emphasizing the billable hour as a component driving bonuses for its staff. I’m sure its associates will be delighted, especially when you note that the bar starts at 2,000 hours pa. Given that US lawyers are [...]
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- Innovation in audit oversight
- I bet you never thought you’d see that as a headline. Neither did I but then Joe Weisenthal’s ‘Nuke the SEC’ post I started to think differently. Let’s start with Joe’s assertions: First, we nuke the SEC. This isn’t really that radical. There’s precious little evidence that it does what it purports to — namely, protect [...]
- The Satyam train wreck
- Until today, I’m betting most professionals hadn’t heard of Satyam, despite they’re India’s fourth largest outsourcer. All that changed when chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju sent a letter to the Indian stock exchange and shareholders holding his hands up to a massive fraud that includes $1 billion in fictious cash assets. When I first [...]