Hints and tips:
...Allison Kirkby, who has been appointed to lead BT, would have dropped an emerging career in telecoms had Manchester United’s owners not turned her down as chief financial officer of her favourite English...
...“Boeing has a lot of risks out there,” says Bruce McClelland, senior contributing analyst at aerospace consultancy Teal Group....
...When BT needed a new boss, Allison Kirkby answered the call. That’s not to say it was her first choice....
...IBM, for example, has a longstanding policy prohibiting political spending, said Bruce Freed, CPA’s president....
...Food companies are raising prices for consumers to protect their profit margins, with large multinationals including Nestlé and Procter & Gamble warning over the past few weeks that cost pressures will continue...
...Bruce Kirk, head equity strategist at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, says currency stability is essential for investment committees to look at Japan again....
...“Engagement was a gamble rather than a blunder,” he argues, “but the odds were always extremely long.”...
...White loves to gamble. But not in the way that most people do. “I’m not going there to hang out and have some drinks. I’m going in with a plan to cripple that place,” he says....
...Internally their partner compensation is a complete black box,” said Bruce MacEwen, founder of law firm consultancy Adam Smith Esquire....
...The proposal has attracted other detractors, including Allison Herren Lee, the SEC’s only Democratic commissioner....
...“Certainly for the companies the lack of transparency is problematic,” said Bruce Goldfarb, chief executive of the firm, which is often employed to drum up support during an activist campaign....
...Born in the GDR In a wide-ranging interview to mark 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel tells Der Spiegel about her teenage dreams of Bruce Springsteen and why the end of communism robbed...
...“This also backs up the fact that we are not being ‘punished’ by the ERC who continue to award based on excellence,” said Mr Bruce....
...The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation, backed by patient capital from Procter & Gamble, has driven the regeneration of the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood during the past 15 years....
...Mrs Kirkby started her career at Procter & Gamble where she ran the Salon range of hair care products....
...After graduating, he joined the corporate world at Procter & Gamble, getting a crash course in how marketers cultivate consumers’ desires by appealing to shame and “fear”....
...Following a debacle at Procter & Gamble last year, when it took two months to work out if activist investor Nelson Peltz had won a seat on the consumer giant’s board, investors, advisers and companies are...
...Plenty of start-ups will founder, said Bruce Linton, chief executive at Canopy Growth, a Canadian cannabis producer....
...Presumption of innocence in Russian intelligence: letter from Bruce Couchman, Ottawa, ON, Canada Just as in many western nations the accused benefit from a presumption of innocence, perhaps in Russia they...
...Peltz, the founder of activist hedge fund Trian Partners, serves on the board of various consumer brands, including Procter & Gamble....
...Talk about taking a gamble on what it admits are “tough markets” for home sales....
...Graham Allison takes a hard look at US vice-president Mike Pence's declaration that American is in a second cold war with China....
...Patagonia, wrote Bruce Chatwin, was “somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up”....
...An incorrigible womaniser, Guzmán jetted to Macau to gamble, to Switzerland for expensive anti-ageing skin treatments or to Acapulco where he had a private zoo, the court heard....
...Dan Loeb’s Third Point has a stake in Nestlé and Nelson Peltz’s Trian had a chunky stake in Procter & Gamble....
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