Nadine Touzet's List: Business&Finance

• injection of private capital
• postal liberalisation
• a Damascene conversion
• to raise up to €3bn
• open up its capital
• delivered €481m in net profits
• cash gap

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• write-down
• bonus
• escalating pay packages
• Even before the latest tumult, steps were taken in the Netherlands and France to limit excessive compensation
• we always knock success
• The Brits just don’t like the in-your-face winners
• took a pay cut
• stick more firmly in the collective craw
• There might as well have been a Goddess of Gold erected for overt worship
• Some peg the rise of the bonus culture to 1986
• a crazy capitalist casino

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• rescue plan
• regulatory filings
• The Troubled Asset Relief Program
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
• power producer
• mortgage-backed and other securities

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• capital-depleting programs
• stock buybacks
• House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee
• filed for bankruptcy protection
• capital outlays
• With the benefit of hindsight
• mortgage origination businesses
• commercial real estate business
• leverage loan business
• commercial real estate portfolio

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• Four key drivers for T&M
  
• Telecom
• aerospace
• manufacturing electronics.
• design validation process.
• solar
• Semicon

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• gargantuan fraud
• stamp arbitrage scam
• scammers
• starry-eyed investors
• a harbinger of the downfall of the 21st-century’s frenetic variant of capitalism
• snake-oil peddlers

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• Balanced scorecard
• activity-based costing
• If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it
• The customer’s perspective
• The company’s internal perspective
• Innovation and improvement
• short-termist
• It acts as an integrating device for a variety of often disconnected corporate programmes, such as quality, re-engineering, process redesign and customer service.

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• Senior technology executives