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...On Wednesday, Brookfield Asset Management, the Canadian powerhouse that manages more than $500bn, announced corporate governance changes to clarify its byzantine management structure....
...Le Tote’s complaint goes to great lengths to explain how byzantine its business is, writing that Urban admitted to Le Tote that it “was not considering launching its own rental subscription business, [and...
...Amid byzantine wrangling between different police forces, the judiciary, the city, the state and the White House, it’s often unclear who’s supposed to be in charge. ★★★★☆ On HBO in the US now, hbo.com...
...Now his challenge is to reinvent old media’s most byzantine conglomerate for this brave new era....
...Warhol is the link from intellectual Duchamp to demotic Damien Hirst, and from Byzantine iconography to YouTube....
...Byzantine industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has been on a strategic odyssey for more than a decade, desperately looking for new options after its fourth profit warning in just over a year....
...On the other will be billion-dollar companies with private equity owners, such as Toys R Us, whose byzantine debt structures will lead to lengthy, litigious and very costly bankruptcies....
...Rather it is the “org chart,” a byzantine collection of lines and boxes ostensibly delineating who reports to whom....
...For example, he was frustrated by Yahoo’s byzantine processes for ordering hardware for Flickr, which in the days before Instagram was a fast-expanding company....
...US proxy voting is byzantine but Mr Ackman makes a reasonable case when he advocates for single “universal ballot” where shareholders can mix and match their votes across slates....
...It spawned a stampede of questions about the overall reliability of Japan Inc....
...Before A & P, Americans shopped at small-town stores that were “often run in a haphazard manner” and purchased their supplies from “a byzantine collection of jobbers and middle men that was rife with corruption...
...The byzantine rules for waging proxy fights did not allow Corvex the time to find in time the heroes it believes Williams deserves....
...Amid a byzantine foreign exchange system, which fuels distortions, the black market rate now trades at about 160 times the main government set exchange rate of 6.3 bolívares per dollar....
...He compares the finance team to a “translation layer between the brittle and byzantine interfaces of the global financial infrastructure” and the clean interface that Stripe presents to its customers....
...Warhol’s golden “Marilyn”, remote as a Byzantine icon, competes with Avedon’s 1957 portrait of the exhausted, bewildered actress, public façade down....
...The US tech companies under fire in Europe argue that the EU’s regulatory framework actually works against the creation of international digital champions by forcing them to comply with Byzantine rules and...
...His one-off creations, priced from £10,000 to hundreds of thousands of pounds, mix elements from Ottoman-Byzantine styles and Turkish architecture to Greek and Roman mythology....
...All was specific: a purple was called byzantine; an orange, russet. Pink was actually mallow. Would Mr Maier himself wear pink or mallow or whatever it is called? “Why not?” He said backstage....
...“It’s a scarce resource, but there are just five serious buyers, all of whom are subject to byzantine regulations. The government always has its thumb on the scales.”...
...A byzantine fee structure means that if he or she wins, the Richter’s true price will be less than the headline suggests....
...And ask whether good performance really requires a Byzantine pay structure. Tesco is just one example, and it is far from the worst when it comes to complexity of executive pay....
...And Mr Sullivan only took charge of AIG a year before the crisis, inheriting an unmanageable byzantine empire from its architect Hank Greenberg....
...One challenge “inhibiting” the growth of public service-focused start-ups similar to SeeClickFix, Donohue says, is the difficulty of breaking into the byzantine world of government procurement....
...Lawyers and bankers had expected the restructuring process to drag on for months, if not more than a year, in the country’s Byzantine legal system....
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