Team player at the top

When Europe’s biggest industrial group was hit by a massive bribery scandal, it hired an outsider to transform the company radically. Siemens chief executive Peter Löscher talks to the FT in The Monday Interview

Quiet man with a big voice

Brady Dougan, Credit Suisse chief and the first American head of a Swiss banking group, has had a good downturn by seizing opportunities as other big banks collapsed

A detached style of leadership

Koç Holding’s chief explains how he rose to the top job at the Turkish group without displaying a sense of naked ambition, writes Peter Marsh

New brain behind the beauty

When Estée Lauder hired an ‘outsider’ in Fabrizio Freda to be its chief executive, the Neapolitan had to work hard to convince the beauty product group’s employees that he was more than a process-driven cutter

Scion reshapes media group

The head of CIR, one of Italy’s biggest conglomerates, and scion of its founder has restructured it – and is trying to stay out of its media arm’s public fight with Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister

‘Turnaround Kid’ bows out

As Delphi, the car parts supplier, prepares to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the man who carried out its restructuring tells about his biggest regret

Lift maker’s ascent to the next level

The head of Finland’s ‘other’ large company has brought Kone out from the shadow of its competitors, increasing its presence in China and the US

Head of the headhunters

Patrick De Maeseneire, the chief executive of Adecco, the world’s biggest temporary staffing company, in the Monday Interview discusses the ample opportunities that the downturn has created

Banker who wants to serve the world

A driver of change

Innovative Wang becomes her father’s daughter