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born 1947 United States
Dame Marjorie Scardino (née Morris; born 25 January 1947) is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC.
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Emerging markets, our exposure to emerging markets, emerging markets are now about 10% of all of Pearson's revenue and growing at more than 20% a year.
I'd studied what I wanted (philosophy and history) while ensuring I did the maths for arts students course.
Time for me, time for the company.
I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Who is this person?
The ubiquity of digital across Pearson, not only in how we make things, but how we sell them and how we deliver them to our customers.
It will not be religious about it.
That's what you do after dinner.
All three of those pieces together have given us fundamentally different financial characteristics
We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson
Try to work on something that has a purpose.
*It may be something in which you’re going to influence 50 people, or two people, or a million people, but try to do something bigger than yourself.
Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away.
Someone like Chrissie Rucker of The White Company, who creates a successful chain of shops, doesn't have the power to shape law that a senior judge has but she may create jobs for hundreds and significant wealth, as we report on the opposite page.