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...As befits a man who wants to head the world’s largest provider of “sustainable solutions”, Ryder resorts to a botanical simile. RSK is “like a pond of lily pads,” he says....
...Four preferred to comment anonymously....
...But she retained a seat on the board and remained an investor until the company was sold this year for an undisclosed sum to day-care provider Bright Horizons....
...He was given pretty much free rein to find a solution.”...
...“It’s got to be about building up their confidence and opening their horizons to other things,” he says....
...Analysts see consolidation of a fragmented industry as one of the solutions, but many of Chile’s salmon producers are parts of family-owned conglomerates....
...The group is not aiming its services at families who want to sign a form and have immediate access to investments. “My own family is always working to a 30-year time horizon,” Scott says....
...A bright future Despite the concerns, most HNWIs are planning to continue their overseas forays....
...Boston-based Bain Capital owns Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a US-based nursery chain that also operates centres in the UK. The company was listed earlier this year....
...Many of these Asian families have highly educated and bright children who have spent time learning finance in investment banks and private equity firms....
...Other data-crunching technologies that dispense with the rigid hierarchies and homogeneity of yore are also on the horizon....
...Strategy is about how an organization will move forward. Doing strategy is figuring out how to advance the organization’s interests....
...Until 1996, five years after the country underwent economic liberalisation, bright graduates preferred to go into management consultancy where salaries were up to four times higher than the legal remuneration...
...Potential buyers of its US centres are thought to include Knowledge Universe, backed by Michael Milken, and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, owned by Bain Capital....
...Horizons Family Solutions, a rival US childcare business....
...Linda Mason, a graduate in 1998, for example, is chairman of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the world’s largest provider of employer-sponsored child care, which operates more than 450 centres in the US...
...So too must be finding a solution to our looming Medicare crisis. These are subjects to which I will return at the book’s end....
...Together Iraq’s neighbouring countries and foreign forces, we can help the Iraqi government and have a clear prospect for the future, a bright horizon … Iran is completely ready to help in that direction...
...When the federal government fails to meet such an obligation, I, as President, am responsible for the problem, and for the solution....
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