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...“I would be homeless in Aspen for a short period of time,” he said. “But I do have other properties around the world.”...
...Some of the US companies that have been downgraded in recent weeks include Aspen Dental Management, MedData and investment software company Confluence Technologies....
...“Divesting is an awful idea,” he recently told me at the Aspen Ideas Festival....
...The new chief executive has been working to restore the company’s tarnished brand and reform its management and culture....
...The wiser course is to keep your head down and keep on polishing, as Danaher did with subsidiaries that make dental implants and filtration systems....
...Aspen is up about 8 per cent and Axis Capital and RenaissanceRe almost 6 per cent....
...Legal & General Investment Management, the London-based fund company that oversees $1tn of assets, has toughened its voting stance after deciding that simply urging US companies to take action on board diversity...
...Its shares jumped at the news, which Rockhopper management said gave further evidence there could be 1bn barrels of oil in the North Falklands basin....
...metrology” unit — which makes its measurement equipment, 3D printers and accounts for the bulk of business — Renishaw has been investing in other areas of technology, such as robots that aid brain surgery and dental...
...DPS Dental, a small dental lab in Iowa, decided to start using Scrum when the pace of change in the prosthetics industry became increasingly hard to ignore, with new 3D printing methods and advances in materials...
...It is based at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., and has regional chapters across the globe. Back to beyondbrics...
...In 2012, McKinsey, the management consultants, estimated that before 1991, 97 per cent of prize money was a “recognition” award — for example, the Nobel Prizes....
...Cigna has also been at the forefront of trying to control costs with a so-called “wellness plan” and a “utilisation management” programme that aims to root out pointless medical tests and procedures....
...A A Fulton Company Abbey Forged Products Adder Technology Aero Stanrew Airbus Operations AKQA The Alco Valves Group All3Media International Allstate Northern Ireland Ampetronic A-Safe (UK) Aspen...
...The team had to be replaced – one of four management changes in Brazil in about 18 months....
...Philips produced an ad for its new dental flossing system with the tagline: “Perfect if you have a bit of Italian stuck between your teeth.”...
...In September GSK finalised the sale of its consumer drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena for $1.4bn, and of two off-patent anti-clotting medicines, in most markets, to Aspen of South Africa....
...The London-based fund was founded in 1994 by Patrick Fauchier, a former professor of dental surgery and donor to the Conservative party, and Christopher Fawcett....
...It has been building up its asset management business, which now boasts $900bn of funds under management – not a top-tier operation but it has been growing quickly....
...But, as Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary, told the Aspen Ideas festival last weekend, the latest plan has only bought the eurozone “a bit more time” to sort out the longer-term structural woes...
...Dfid’s role models for its new private sector approach in India include the US-based Acumen Fund, part of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, the US Rockefeller Foundation and Mumbai-based Aavishkaar...
...And before joining UCLA Anderson School of Management as a faculty member and lecturer on corporate responsibility, ethical branding and social entrepreneurship, Jonathan Greenblatt was chief executive of...
...Aspen Insurance Holdings, which has exposure to Japanese quakes, fell 2.7 per cent to $26.85. Platinum Underwriters fell 3 per cent to $36.68....
...National Dentex, a maker of dental appliances, jumped 68 per cent to $16.83 on news that the company had agreed to be bought by GDC Holdings, a holding company of GeoDigm Corp, which also makes dental appliances...
...This year, of the more than 5,000 courses submitted to the Aspen Institute – whose Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey tracks how business schools incorporate social and environmental issues into research projects...
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