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...“It’s like in a family: comparing siblings never helps,” says Charles Elson, a University of Delaware corporate governance expert. Gorman seems to recognise the problem....
...Frazier’s narrator, Valentine “Val” Montgomery Welch, is an artist with a commission for his times....
...One founding member was Fred Koch, owner of a large oil company, whose sons Charles and David were leading benefactors to the Tea Party movement half a century later....
...Cohan highlights the important and under-trumpeted role of Charles Coffin, who rescued and rebuilt the company after the departure of Edison and a life-threatening financial crisis in the 1890s....
...Yalda Hakim, broadcasterBook: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson “Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle taps into the way I feel about Afghanistan....
...People like Charles Koch and Peter Thiel are movers and shakers, but rarely indulge in grandstanding....
...When I interviewed Mr Welch on the eve of his departure in 2001, he told me “if Jeff Immelt doesn’t grow GE, Jack Welch will have failed because Jack Welch’s most important job over the last several years...
...This week Royal Dutch Shell exited the proposed Lake Charles LNG export project in Louisiana, set up as a joint venture with Energy Transfer, citing “current market conditions”....
...We have supper at home, usually just me, Tim and our five Cavalier King Charles spaniels....
...Pilita Clark, business columnist Jack: Straight from the Gut, by Jack Welch (2001) Jack Welch’s 18-year-old memoir is heading to Bracken House for a simple reason....
...john.plender@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Make executive pay sensitive to losses / From Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics, UK...
...Equally he might have chosen Charles Babbage, who in the 19th century came up with the concept of a programmable computer, or James Watt, who improved designs for the steam engine that would transform manufacturing...
...Make a list of ways in which the French government could boost its ailing economy, and tormenting a foreign investor with the ghost of Charles de Gaulle is surely near the bottom....
...For those interested in buying the shares directly, Charles Stanley was voted the best broker for international dealing in last year’s FT/IC Investment Awards....
...The bank has appointed a management duo of Charles Donald and Jonathan Grundy to replace Mr Grigg atop the UK investment banking department....
...Charles Stanley Direct, a new service, features only clean share classes. Both these platforms instead charge investors an ad valorem fee on their holdings....
...Lawrence Summers, Charles W Eliot University Professor of Harvard University How are you spending the summer?...
..., but are capably retold by John Byrne, co-author of Jack Welch’s biography, Jack: Straight From The Gut....
...“The increase in prospective resources not only affirms further potential within our Central Blocks but also provides the company with a broader array of targets to focus on in the future,” said Paul Welch...
...At General Electric, for example, Keith Sherin has been CFO since 1998, serving under two chief executives: Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt....
...The company’s performance was “not satisfactory” said Charles Kirwan-Taylor, chief executive....
...Historians have not documented whether Charles de Gaulle or Georges Clemenceau first pronounced that “graveyards are full of indispensable men”....
...Charles McDowell, a buying agent, has already received a number of “serious approaches” from City buyers....
...GE’s Jack Welch advocated dispensing with the bottom, not the top, 10 per cent of employees yearly. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...Welch’s interpretation sets Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale within a larger battle between good and evil (personified by two fairies, Spring and Winter)....
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