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...“Jacob was truly a Renaissance man,” says Howard Marks, co-founder of $189bn investment powerhouse Oaktree Capital Management and a longtime friend. “He had a very active mind and great curiosity....
...Among the illustrious guests were former British prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major; private equity titan Stephen Schwarzman; media barons Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg; and historians Niall Ferguson...
...Nearly a decade of demonstrating against police killings in cities from Baltimore to Chicago to Ferguson, Missouri had prepared activists to mobilise quickly....
...A fourth problem, highlighted by Meyer’s co-author Howard Kunreuther, is what we might call exponential myopia....
...Howard Schultz admitted how hard it was to let go after he gave up the chief executive role at Starbucks in 2000....
...The scandal is one of the first big tests for Kevin Johnson, chief executive, who took over from Howard Schultz last year and has looked to maintain the coffee giant’s brand with consumers....
...Three years ago, after a spate of police killings of unarmed black people sparked protests in US cities from Ferguson to Oakland, Howard Schultz decided the company he built needed to speak up about race...
...He mentioned that he’d noticed that after the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of a young African American man by police there, coffee sales had tanked — not just in Ferguson, but...
...Yet as Starbucks’ Howard Schultz knows all too well, it’s quite possible to mis-step when you take a stand....
...Scott Ferguson, managing partner, told a conference in New York this week that being a standalone company will better align management incentives....
...There was a brief English pastoral interlude in Finzi’s The Fall of the Leaf, fully orchestrated after his death by Howard Ferguson....
...Some compared the challenge with that facing Manchester United when Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013....
...“We want the consumer to have a place to go where they can have a direct relationship with our brand,” says Mr Howard....
...Anonymous Prior to his passing, [drug smuggler and author] Howard Marks — in a legal and above board enterprise of course. Why?...
...Howard Seymour at Numis said in a note to clients on Friday that “several institutions were very adamant” that Mr Nicholls should not join Wolseley after the profit warning....
...Just two months ago, Barack Obama told a graduating class at Howard University that America was by almost every measure better than when he had left college — including in the field of race relations....
...Mr Platt claims that the “two-and-20” model of fees (the very same one that made him, and rivals such as Alan Howard of Brevan Howard, billionaires) is no longer profitable enough....
...Malcolm Moore is the FT’s leisure industries correspondent Photographs: Howard Sooley; Getty; Anita Elberse; Press Association; SSPL/Manchester Daily Express; Eamonn and James Clarke/EMPICS Entertainment...
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Goldsmith was accused of exploiting the teenager who was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri; one person on Twitter called him a “troll with tenure”....
...The news comes as Penelope Gibbs, director of Transform Justice, cited the role of unfair court charges in the US on race riots in Ferguson, Missouri....
...Until then, his only economic training was from reading Karl Marx’s Das Kapital; his arrival in a Howard Johnson hotel in the US was like “something out of Alice in Wonderland”, he says....
...Howard Schultz, chief executive of Starbucks, announced the company’s first stock split since 2005 as he defended a new company initiative aimed at spurring conversations around race in America that has...
...Nearby, Howard Deveon, 20, said that Monday night, when at least a dozen stores were set on fire, was likely just the beginning....
...This was Ferguson in the days after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a white policeman....
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