He was president of Morgan Stanley in 1997 when the firm merged with Mr Purcell's Dean Witter Discover: the combination both cost him his job and created the problems he has been brought back to solve.
What was the problem you were trying to solve back then?
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As opposed to saying, America, you go solve the problem, we have a Prime Minister who's saying, stop holding me back, I want to solve the problem.
"The emphasis on bringing people back to Africa to solve problems is really appealing to me, " says Fiorina, who went to high school in Ghana.
Back then, he hoped to solve what he considered financial mismanagement at the club, and he also promised to bring Luis Figo from rivals Barcelona.
All but WPP came back with charts about how they would solve their problems--if they won the HSBC contract.
Congress and the President can either work progressively to solve these problems, or sit back and react to the dwindling dollars of our shrinking national budget.
And Europe's aspirations for a bigger role in the world would be dented: if it cannot solve a dispute in its own back yard, how can it do much elsewhere?
And how will any of the automakers' cost-cutting plans solve the fundamental problem of getting customers back into showrooms to buy cars?
"The only way to solve this is to put the cat back in the bag, " says Charles (Chip) Kahn, president of FAH.
"Given the amount of money involved it will take time to solve these problems and find ways to pay people back, " he said, adding that most of the currency traders who used Bitfloor were sticking with him.
They pushed back against the notion that the 27-nation European Union could not solve the crisis on its own.
Not as a silver bullet that will solve all our problems, but it will put more people back to work.
Since the Crime and Security Act became law last year, police have had powers to force thousands of past offenders across England and Wales to provide a DNA sample in order to help solve serious crimes such as murder, rape and manslaughter dating back up to 40 years.
He says it all goes back to a comment he had made to Wright several years back: "A good lawyer gets hired to do two things--solve problems and keep secrets, " he said.
And my hope is, is that the Republicans who have said no and have seen their party I think use some unfortunate rhetoric around this issue, my hope is, is that they come back and say, you know, this is something that we can work on together to solve a problem instead of trying to score political points.
Sure, you might lack the particular skill set, but you might be able to problem solve and trouble shoot because you see things through a different lens and you are standing back a bit.
The way I solve this is to throw anyone out of my office who recommends their sale -- or to yell back at them: "Find me something better!"
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