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...Over the past 16 years, big buyout groups such as Blackstone, KKR, Apollo and TPG have transformed from clubby partnerships into publicly traded corporations with large public market valuations....
...“The Google folks clearly knew what they were doing,” Sweeney said. “They had very lucid writings internally as they were writing emails to each other, though they destroyed most of the chats.”...
...Beijing’s crackdown on consultancy firms has rattled the western companies that rely on them for information about doing business in the world’s second-biggest economy....
...DS: I think that we will see change, especially as a result of the litigation and the investigations the various government bodies are doing into their conduct....
...as long as possible so that they can keep getting away with what they’re really doing.”...
...As they reminisced about their glory days some four decades ago, a rumour was also doing the rounds: their old firm, First Boston, was soon to be resurrected....
...“They’re in the business of ideally doing multiple deals with your portfolio companies. They know that if they act poorly, my job is to not show them future business.”...
...So our business isn’t about extracting money from creators as much as helping them find opportunities — and profiting alongside them from the opportunities as they emerge....
...Before Intel, Gelsinger led cloud software group VMware for nearly a decade, managing it as an independent division of ailing tech conglomerate EMC Corporation....
...David Constable will step down as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto at the end of this year to pursue his new role as chief executive of Fluor Corporation....
...“It’s much more likely that legitimate domestic actors possibly operating under their own name — with LLCs or corporations with very shady funding that are not required to disclose what that funding is —...
...“The business was becoming joyless, and it felt like an impossible task,” Mr Hendry admitted in an interview from his bolt-hole in St Barts....
...For them to slant this as Google versus big business — that is very, very interesting,” he said....
...If Jay Clayton, SEC chairman, advances the rule to a final vote in the months ahead, he will be doing so over the opposition of religious organisations and companies such as T Rowe Price and Neuberger Berman...
...However, their growing clout began to attract the scrutiny of US business lobby groups, as well as some of corporate America’s best-known leaders....
...(NYT) Doing justice Preet Bharara sits down with Dave Chang to talk about his tenure as the US attorney for the southern district of New York and being recognised as one of the most successful prosecutors...
...most of their business in the US....
...And it was doing more besides....
...“I think both presidents from China and the US are doing what they can to protect their countries, so what’s happening is probably good for the long term of business,” said Mr Martin....
...Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School....
...Chief among the US concerns is that some mutual fund managers follow advisers’ recommendations without doing due diligence of their own....
...“Now the corporations can focus on going out, on going global. I think that means it will be a big year for Chinese companies doing overseas deals.”...
...Companies, trade and lobbying groups (the Conference Board and the Business Roundtable, for example), as well as some academics and corporate governance experts, have begun complaining that proxy advisers...
...We are doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm, so the head of Walmart, who I know, who’s a very nice guy, was making a political statement....
...“The new generation are becoming billionaires very fast and very early on and doing philanthropy while they’re running their first, second or third business,” says Bradford Smith, president of the US-based...
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