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...The Madonnas and Children that adorn the walls of “Super Stud” come from the catalogue of Robert Lehman’s hefty art collection — which the investment banker bequeathed in its entirety to the Metropolitan...
...“As well as traditional lines like shoe polish, we’ve introduced trainer care — reflecting the move to more casual styles,” says Charlotte Brown, a buyer for John Lewis....
...Charlotte St Martin, the league’s president, said the data would be released again “when business is normal”....
...Self-reliance The bankruptcy made Lehman’s last juniors resilient. Charlotte Ravouna, formerly of the bank’s capital markets sales division, says: “You realise your value is yourself....
...She became a commercial barrister and a QC, working on the insolvencies of Woolworths and Lehman Brothers....
...He is now working for $9 an hour at a grocery store in Charlotte. ben.mclannahan@ft.com...
...“In June 2008, we sent 24 students off to Lehman Brothers,” recalls Stacey Kole, deputy dean of Chicago’s Booth School of Business....
...Mr Tarullo certainly did not go out of his way to make friends on Wall Street, or in the big banking towns such as Charlotte or Minneapolis....
...Like Perl, he bailed in April 2007, after Goldman and Lehman Brothers said they’d had their fill of subprime....
...She is leading the development of Charlotte, a machine learning tool that will help the team with complex litigation and M&A deals, and has founded HearstLab, an incubator for businesses led by women....
...Villin, it turns out, lives in less a home than a giant modernist art collection with works from Josef Hoffmann in the 19th century to Charlotte Perriand in the 1960s....
15 Steve Jobs, the life and soul of Apple, Jorge Paulo Lehman, one of the best strategists today, and Jeff Bezos, from Amazon.
...BofA’s board recombined the roles last October, saying the separation in 2009 was a crisis-era measure that was no longer appropriate — the bank had overcome most of the problems stemming from the pre-Lehman...
...No other bank has paid more in fines, settlements and provisions over the past five years than Charlotte-based BofA....
...The new bank keeps the BofA name, but it is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and no longer maintains the Giannini populist ethos....
...Brothers had been ‘Lehman Sisters’, today’s economic crisis clearly would look quite different.”...
...The tale of London entrepreneur Charlotte Knight is typical....
...BofA agreed to buy Merrill Lynch in late 2008, after trading losses and the failure of Lehman Brothers led investors to worry about the investment bank’s fate....
...“They asked me the week that Lehman Brothers collapsed!” he says....
...Just as the failure of Lehman Brothers doomed his rival John McCain in 2008, a eurozone implosion would create economic odds too great for Mr Obama to surmount....
...Events could upend this election as they did in 2008 after Lehman Brothers collapsed. But at the moment the 2012 election is looking pretty stable....
...The departures resurrected memories of how the Charlotte-based bank has suffered from an exodus of former Merrill Lynch dealmakers after its takeover of the investment bank in 2008....
...The president barely deviated from his prepared address in Charlotte. In contrast, almost half the words in Mr Clinton’s speech were ad libbed....
...Some longtime BofA investors complained that the bank paid far too much for a company that appeared in danger of following Lehman into bankruptcy court....
...The other corner offices in the financial districts of Manhattan, Charlotte and San Francisco have different, and generally younger, inhabitants than those who presided over the years immediately preceding...
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