Hints and tips:
...One scoop to start: Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is closing in on $23bn for its new flagship buyout fund, becoming the latest big-name investor to defy an industry-wide fundraising slump....
...That is the assessment of Sir Richard Leese, former council leader and, along with ex-council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein, one of the “two knights of civic reinvention” in Manchester....
...CD&R had a knight of the realm onboard to smooth its Morrisons takeover: Sir Terry Leahy, the former Tesco chief, was a longtime adviser to the US firm....
...Take former SEC chair Jay Clayton, who sits on the boards of a crypto asset manager and serves as Apollo Global Management’s lead independent director....
...Mr Clayton said: “Disclosure of manager selection criteria is something that is within the ambit of the SEC.”...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice named Eric Rouzier a partner at the private equity firm....
...But Amazon has been tipped as the white knight for struggling retailers in the past, and one senior executive at a large US grocer sounds a word of caution to those holding out hope for an Amazonian life...
...Ed Knight, Nasdaq’s general counsel, highlights the case of Amazon, a $400bn company that grew from a market capitalisation of less than $1bn....
...Harvard, for instance, offers a three-week course called Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen at $1,500 a head....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 207 861 5269...
...Clayton has lived a life surrounded by the act of writing....
...The editor of Promo News and the man behind BUG, the British Film Institute’s pop-video showcase, David Knight keeps a weather eye on the scene....
...The three-tiered set was a steampunk space ship, with a jutting prow and Knight Rider-ish data screens. Musically, it was a mechanical and largely soulless affair. Bieber is no Bruno Mars either....
...The American folk music that the pair were raised on tended to be “starker, more realistic and moralistic”, she adds, making the Child Ballads – with their knights and ladies, their fairies and “cruel mothers...
...This year’s Knight Frank Citi Private Bank Wealth Report found the newly wealthy, wherever they live, share a love of travel, particularly to the historic wealth hubs of Europe and North America, and the...
...After a string of crowd favourites including “Plug in Baby”, apotheosis came with 2006’s “Knights of Cydonia”, an egregiously grandiose gallop through the space-time continuum with the spirits of Spinal...
...Aspects of his humour – a barber-shop skit on the dangers of “Uncorrected Personality Traits” in children, and a slack-jawed country pastiche, “Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus”, about “the perils of belief”...
...Malcolm Knight, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, warned that regulators needed better information about hedge funds and buy-out groups....
...Clayton Christensen, in The Innovator’s Dilemma, says established companies cannot embrace discontinuous improvements....
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