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I’ve built a successful IT firm and am thinking about planning an exit strategy. Problem is, I don’t have children or any relative who would be a logical successor to take over the …

In “Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity into a Competitive Edge,” Ken Roldan and I profiled 24 minorities who were CEO, CFO, senior vice presidents and top executives. These corporate executives had advanced at leading companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Hitachi, and …

A recent survey suggests that many employees feel betrayed by their supervisors By Rhonda Reynolds … Sometimes managers have to withhold information because they are bound by codes of confidentiality.

Executive search firm Battalia Winston International has placed Josette Jean-Francois as senior director of leadership development for McGraw-Hill Companies. Most recently, Ms. Jean-Francois was the Vice president of leadership and management development for Brown Brothers Harriman. Rick Linde, partner of Battalia Winston International …

While studying finance at college in Florida, John Dunbar put himself through school tending bar and waiting tables at a hotel. One day a colleague told him about a job as a programmer at a point-of-sale (POS) systems integration …

When Tim Buffo, the IT director at First Morris Bank and Trust, realized he needed to think further ahead than the next server hiccup, he went to management and made the …

Executive search firm Battalia Winston International has added a diversity practice to support the firm’s commitment to offering the most qualified and balanced slate of candidates in every search it conducts. The new group, which is based in New York, will be headed by Kenneth Arroyo Roldan, a partner, …

Boots on the ground”-local Chinese talent to staff branches of multinational companies in China-are increasingly hard to find, says Lisa Tromba, vice president of executive search firm Battalia Winston International. Many …

Retail Traffic © 2007 Prism Business Media Inc. All rights reserved. In early April, Gap Inc. released what, for it, qualified as the best news in a long time. The chain’s same-store sales were up 2 percent during the first quarter 2007 — compared with a 12 percent decrease for the same period last …

Week of April 30th One in five paid their own way to training the past 12 months, our salary survey finds. Scott Baldwin was a Web designer at Amazon.com and considered using the company’s training program to move into software engineering. But he decided he needed more. …