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...“They just have a murderers’ row of lawyers over there,” one real estate executive observed, invoking the Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to try to convey the firm’s talent in legal specialities such...
...Lou Kovacs, president of marketing in North America for advertising and talent agency Octagon, estimates that marketing spend by crypto firms on sports sponsorships grew from $25mn-$50mn in 2020 to more...
...The London-based clothing brand A-Cold-Wall, founded by Samuel Ross, announced a grant scheme for 10 independent black businesses, amounting to £25,000, a considerable sum given that his brand has only existed...
...Bud Abbott and Lou Costello fell out when Abbott hired a maid who had worked for Costello....
...Lou Kapcsandy pounced on the State Lane vineyard when it came up for sale at the turn of the century after years of buying its produce as Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet....
...When Lou Gerstner arrived at IBM in 1993, he found staff hamstrung by the way they had interpreted the company’s “basic beliefs”, which Tom Watson Jr, the founder’s son, had introduced three decades earlier...
...Gerhard Samuel was succeeded by the esteemed Mexican composer Carlos Chávez. The peripatetic Dennis Russell Davies made Cabrillo his western outpost until Marin Alsop arrived in 1992....
...Lou Ford, sheriff, likes to hit women. He sometimes likes to hit them to death; love gets him that way....
...It has appointed JPMorgan, Grant Samuel and Azure Capital to “evaluate approaches and proposals”. Fortescue said on Wednesday that talks “are preliminary and incomplete”....
...“[But] to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, nothing focuses the mind quite like the prospect of your imminent removal from this world.”...
...Now, under manager Lou Piniella, that most elusive of Wrigley commodities, consistency, has returned....
...That was a good way of underlining the IBM legacy – although he could have gone one better and also recommended his immediate predecessor Lou Gerstner’s book Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?...
...Samuel Palmisano of IBM, while admitting that “I don’t have as much time to read as I used to”, paid tribute to a former Big Blue boss, Thomas Watson Jr, who wrote Business and Its Beliefs....
...When Lou Gerstner saved IBM in the early 1990s by building the world’s biggest information technology services business on top of its struggling hardware operations, he also created a new model for a technology...
...Lou Gerstner, who rescued IBM in the 1990s, set the direction by promoting the growth of IBM Global Services, now the largest part of the group. Mr Palmisano has forged ahead....
...Doubts remain over quality of earnings A frequent complaint against IBM under Lou Gerstner, Sam Palmisano’s predecessor as chairman and chief executive, was that its record of wealth creation owed as much...
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