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To the list of difficulties in prosecuting securities fraud, let's just say people who've pleaded guilty to insider trading do not make the most credible witnesses.

Gupta, 63, a former global head of management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, is the most prominent corporate figure indicted in the U.S. government's broad crackdown on insider trading in recent years.

Bernard T. Ferrari, a former director at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., has been named dean of The Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School, effective July 1. Ferrari, 63, will succeed Yash P. Gupta, who stepped down in June 2011.

After 16 years presiding over white collar cases in the U.S. District Court's Southern District, you'd think Judge Jed Rakoff A would be hard to disallusion.

Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America's most-watched investor. GE, one of the world's biggest manufacturers, is too.

In his questioning of P&G Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller, defence lawyer Gary Naftalis mentioned press leaks of the Folgers transaction and the array of lawyers, investment bankers, external-relations advisers and corporate tax specialists who worked on the deal.

Squeeze play: JPMorgan has been selling profitable securities to prop up second-quarter results after the bank's chief investment office and the trader known as the London Whale incurred billions in losses.

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Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey & Co., hasn't yet indicated whether he will testify at his own insider-trading trial.

U.S. prosecutors have gained an early edge in Raj Gupta's insider-trading trial.

Rachel Carrell jokes that the only theme in her life story has been that she quite likes "doing random things". The former University of Otago student is now at the helm of DrThom, the UK's largest online doctor service, which is aiming for turnover of 10 million this year.

NEW DELHI: Indian-American private equity investor Rajat Gupta is in a soup not only in the US where he is accused of insider trading.

Financial distress and political turmoil persists in Greece. And now a Greek exit from the euro is what everyone is buzzing about these days.

The jury in Rajat Gupta's insider-trading trial heard yesterday from Michael Cardillo, an ex-Galleon Group trader turned prosecution witness who also testified against former colleague Zvi Goffer last year.

Finding growth today can be an enormous challenge for companies in a complex and fast-changing business environment.

Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group LLC co-founder accused of insider trading, left, arrives with his attorney, John Dowd, at federal court in New York.

Edgar Perez, author, The Speed Traders, and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, is leading the world's only high frequency trading seminar, aptly called The Speed Traders Workshop 2012: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX , for the first time in China.

When Duke Energy 's chief technology officer David Mohler visits China next week, he'll stop by the city of Langfang to check out a project that aims to show what a city of the future might look like if it incorporates coal-based and renewable energy generation, biofuel production and water recycling.

YOU can almost hear the boardrooms shuddering. The trial of Rajat Gupta, a former managing director of McKinsey & Co, a consultancy, and a ubiquitous figure in the executive offices of private and public institutions, got under way this week in New York.

Some CIOs and IT departments are missing the mark with innovation and executive engagement, which threatens new sources of revenue and competitive advantage, according to new survey results from McKinsey & Co .