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...Founded in 1985 by chief executive Stephen Schwarzman and investment banker Peter Peterson with just $400,000 of capital, Blackstone has transformed in recent decades from a small dealmaking outfit with...
...Gray even set up a LinkedIn profile that is now followed by almost 25,000 people and read by considerably more. Gray was upbeat when he spoke to Antoine last week....
...Gray, meanwhile, has ended weekly meetings by repeating his favourite maxim: “Stay calm, stay positive and never give up.”...
...Chris Gray has a closer view than many of the labour shortages plaguing businesses across the developed world....
...Jason Furman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics notes, too, that employment was still 10m jobs below its pre-pandemic trend in April, even though the job openings rate was higher in February...
...Joel Peterson, the JetBlue Airways chairman who has taught at Stanford for 27 years, says Mr Donahoe is known there as a “legend” for his unusually high grades....
...Peterson and Schwarzman worked together for 33 years, but the father-son relationship fell apart at the end. Peterson felt he had been squeezed out of his fair share of an expanding business....
...US, was set up by Roger Altman, a protégé of Peterson at Lehman and Blackstone....
...The charts were haunted by songs such as Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I Love Her” (1960), the Everly Brothers’ “Ebony Eyes” (1961), Twinkle’s “Terry” and the Shangri-Las’ “Leader of the Pack” (both 1964) —...
...He was replaced by Alan Peterson, an expert in operational restructurings, who has made a number of successful deals with 3i and became Enterprise’s executive chairman....
...Mr Peterson went on to found Blackstone Group, the private-equity firm, together with Mr Schwarzman....
...Over at Blackstone, Jon Gray, the group’s property chief, was already confessing to associates that the office tower sales the firm had made in April 2007 would have been impossible a month later....
...Nevertheless, Mr Schwarzman and Mr Peterson are not moving into entirely uncharted waters....
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