Hints and tips:
...“I don’t care if a hundred more women come forward,” the late CBS board member and film producer Arnold Kopelson reportedly said at one point as reports about Moonves’ behaviour were trickling in....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor I don’t understand why the British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad’s work isn’t more loudly celebrated....
...This year my hot ticket is Unscripted, about the battle for succession at Sumner Redstone’s media empire....
...If I was told to find a new mother for my children, someone else to write my books or give my speeches, I don’t think I’d rush to make a long list of candidates....
...But if our gardens don’t live up to our conventional standards of beauty, will we care for them as we should?...
...Whether it is arguments between the children of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the legal fights involving the late Sumner Redstone (the dictatorial billionaire behind CBS and Paramount Pictures) or the bitter...
...“But we don’t think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.”...
...It is enough to rival Sumner Redstone, who tried to remain chairman of his media conglomerates, CBS and Viacom, when he could no longer speak....
...“I don’t want to talk for ViacomCBS, I don’t think they are selling the business because they don’t believe in it, I think they are selling it because they want to focus on other businesses.”...
...She also interfaces with first-class passengers, dons an engineer’s boiler suit and occasionally drives the train....
...And don’t miss our FT News Briefing audio show — a short daily rundown of the top global stories....
...“We don’t know enough about these organisations and it would be good to know why they have been chosen....
...Finally, don’t expect the end of one feud to put a stop to all future feuding. In the annals of family business, unlike in fiction, it is rare for everybody to live happily ever after....
...Jim Sumner, president of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council, said Friday’s deal opened an opportunity for $2bn in annual poultry exports to China....
...If so, it is committing the error of which George Mason University’s Scott Sumner has warned us for years; it is reasoning from a price change, without asking why the price has changed....
...Viacom heiress Shari Redstone now sits unchallenged atop a $30bn entertainment empire after fighting off two of the most powerful men in Hollywood, ex-CBS chief executive Les Moonves and her own father, Sumner...
...“Half of our products don’t make money.” If the company is to survive, it could mean going down to a one blast furnace operation and ending lossmaking production, which would have an impact on jobs....
...Don’t even think about a dip in the Trevi Fountain....
...It probably comes as no surprise to DD readers that corporate raiders don’t have many friends on Wall Street....
...They’re in the process of negotiating a merger 13 years after they were split by controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone. It was a different time then....
...“We don’t have to worry about league table volume,” the Dartmouth-educated New Mexico native said in an interview with the FT....
...“In terms of reality, those [numbers] don’t matter much right now,” said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...) Follow the FT’s deals team Arash Massoudi in London — @ArashMassoudi Javier Espinoza in London — @JavierespFT James Fontanella-Khan in New York — @JFK_America Sujeet Indap in New York — @sindap Don...
...Rothschild has named Sumner Farren and Sara Coyle as managing directors in its Chicago office. The two, who will join the industrials practice in June, were both previously with UBS....
...“Netflix has proven to talent that you don’t have to be on legacy TV to create great content,” says Mr Greenfield....
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