Hints and tips:
...If you live in a temperate country, you do not need to carry water on every trip as if you were setting off to cross a desert....
...But unlike regular investment banks, groups such as KKR — which has diversified to include a $200bn credit investment business and its Global Atlantic life insurance affiliate — can do it all in-house, Lex...
...As they’re doing that, they hear each others’ stories, learn a little bit more about one another. And that’s where the democracy takes place....
...Perhaps because of his desire to engage with change-makers in the real world, business leaders sometimes confuse him for a futurist, which he describes as “a bullshit industry” and “a scam”....
...But then she walked in and heard the flute and guitar riff of the Horslips’ Celtic rock anthem “Trouble (With A Capital T)”. She looked around. Were the others hearing this?...
...The conviction in his rapid-fire pitches was infectious enough to make even blue-chip asset managers look past the underlying companies’ skimpy balance sheets....
...He’s signed up to be the first GoldCare client and is about to move his 750 supermarket workers off Blue Cross Blue Shield as a test before transitioning all 4,000. Strand shows up and orders a steak....
...It set up a cross-disciplinary ESG disclosure committee from across the company....
...“Our way of doing business adds value to the economy — it’s not to be down-valued,” she says....
...And over the years, our structure has helped us make big bets on acquisitions like Instagram that were very controversial initially but were good decisions for our community and our business....
...In my experience, you’ve got personally — if you’re a secretary of state — to talk to the companies, to persuade them to invest because other countries are doing that....
...But I think going into insurance — whilst, of course, insurance is capitalist, because it’s a big business and it makes big profits, sometimes — it is something which actually keeps people safe.”...
...EU-based companies have gained some of our contracts. The EU freight companies that are gaining our freight business, that isn't in the UK anymore, they're all doing quite well....
...It was six days after the worst storm in nearly a century struck Florida’s south-west coast, disfiguring seaside communities and barrier islands....
...And even on some occasions prior to that there was much less in the way of people stood outside shouting. It looked more professional, as Jim says. It was more of a business presence....
..., canny and funny as hell....
...It’s red, white and blue and says “Fuck Biden”....
...Even as White was teaching Las Vegans to jab and cross, he believed fighting would make a comeback....
...Now, they’ll need to reassess the risks of doing business in a market that is increasingly controlled by the government....
...Back in 2013, Deliveroo was just a fledgling start-up and Shu, its co-founder, was “doing every job in the company”....
...Try asking a member of Bermuda’s business community about the G7 push for a minimum corporate income tax and lips press together more tightly than usual....
...Baxtrom wants to feed the hungry and has hired a full-time employee to co-ordinate doing so. He is struggling to give his staff health insurance....
...in the business, too....
...Justine Handelman, senior vice-president at the Blue Cross Blue Shield association, which represents insurers, said people may have already paid their deductible, a contribution required at the start of...
...They think Unibail’s plan for a €3.5bn rights issue is misguided and instead are urging for the company to sell its US business and focus on Europe. Doing so won’t be easy, as Lex points out....
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