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...Hulu launched in 2007 as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, as the traditional media groups sought to get into the streaming game....
...Aaron Smith, the director of Data Labs at Pew, said: “Twitter is a place where journalists, politicians and elites congregate. It also tends to be dominated by very politically engaged people.”...
...Even as he and his peers are ostracised from the city’s elite institutions, their financial contributions to the city remain deeply entrenched, Bloomberg reports....
...He ran through a series of jobs — court stenographer for the US military in Japan; cab driver in Chicago; and as a first-rate salesman of photocopiers, adding machines and scrap metal, a business owned by...
...Big Law’s financial engine room As the war for legal talent rages, elite US firms are making more use of a certain tool: the role of “partner in name only”....
...For others, again like me, it was a way of raging against the financial elite....
...It’s easy to forget years later, just how firmly HNA ensconced itself among western financial elites....
...A couple of years ago its chief executive Emmanuel Faber became the first of his ilk to turn the company into an enterprise à mission — a French legal structure similar to the B-Corp concept in the US....
...But by 2010 Kassoy was noticing something odd: though relatively few large companies actually turned themselves into B Corps, many started to embrace B Corp metrics to assess their performance around non-monetary...
...Smart reads Welcome to Wheaton How a small Chicago suburb became a key hub for the $6tn exchange-traded fund industry....
...He took to alcohol and ended up as a cab driver in Chicago. His successors took note. When he was governor in the early 2000s, Manchin slashed corporate taxes....
...Executives who spouted nonsense about social responsibility were the unwitting puppets of those who would undermine a free society, the Chicago economist had thundered in a 1970 essay....
...Researching her book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs, she noted that, beyond core skills, hirers looked for what they might describe as “polish” — or “pedigree” — revealed in tiny social cues...
...“Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,” he tweeted....
...In 2015, Westinghouse bought Stone & Webster, a unit of the listed Chicago Bridge & Iron (CBI) for $0 and also assumed its liabilities....
...Likewise, it was while spotting inefficiencies among military suppliers to the US Army Ordnance that James McKinsey, a young accounting professor at the University of Chicago, saw potential in using accounting...
...Non- New York offices (California, Chicago, Texas) did often draw students from schools nearer to them....
...The workers concerned produce the Bombardier Global 5000 and 6000 aircraft, used to carry the global elite on long-haul, intercontinental routes....
...the most expensive “Elite” package....
...But amid the party hacks, elite offspring and celebrities standing for election, there is a crop of first-time parliamentary candidates who are promising to be clean, effective and responsive....
...Farmers access FieldScripts via an iPad in their tractor cab which sets the planter on the basis of transmissions received from Monsanto....
...Coursera, the largest Mooc platform, hosts business courses by Chicago Booth, Iese, Stanford, Wharton and Yale....
...Mark Jehle, a rural mail carrier who farms about 3,000 acres with his brother about 90 minutes southwest of Chicago, illustrates the challenge....
...With AWS, Hailo can access data centres on the east coast of the US for its services in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Washington....
...Chicago-based CME attracted 84 per cent of US futures volumes in the first 10 months of 2013, according to the Futures Industry Association....
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