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...Ivy League schools accepted only about 5 per cent of the applications they received last year, according to data from IvyCoach.com....
...The kings of the Ivy League to fast food route, however, may be Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane....
...Mr Bravo, born to an affluent family, enjoyed what he calls a “soft landing” in the Ivy League at Brown University....
...Starting out in the early 1970s, its founders Hunter Lewis and James Bailey saw a gap for advising Ivy League colleges on how to invest more effectively....
...It also happens to be chaired and part-owned by Luke Johnson, serial entrepreneur, columnist (including for many years at the FT) and once-owner of London’s Ivy restaurant as well as the more mass-market...
...Ivy Investments, an arm of Wadell & Reed, the Kansas-based asset manager has launched a mutual fund based on this benchmark....
...Harvard and Yale may be North America’s most famous universities but the east coast home cities of these two “Old Ivies” could barely be more different....
...The first was from an Ivy League business school and the second from a lower-ranked school – Vanderbilt: Owen, which the FT ranks at 53rd in the world for its full-time MBA programme....
...Mr Caring, owner of a string of high-end London restaurants, including The Ivy, Scott’s, Le Caprice, and London clubs including Annabel’s, bought into Soho House in 2008, paying £105m....
...Other celebrity food brands have followed: Gary Rhodes and Pierre Gagnaire, Nobu and The Ivy, are just some of the high-end outlets that serve tourists and residents willing to shell out for expensive imported...
...Despite two graduate degrees from an Ivy League university and years of exponentially increasing remuneration, I was left in the unenviable position of caring for a wife and two small children with no hope...
...In planes of aluminium, a post-cubist “Rattlesnake Figure” strides through a clump of ivy. A chunky, carved “Lumpy Figure”, built up from branches and poles, is constructed like a tree....
...Ms Schaja joins from Ivy Asset Management. ● Thanasis Petronikolos has moved from RAB Capital to join Baring Asset Management as a director in the fixed income and currency team....
...“Ivy leaguers don’t play well in the British business community…we are as a nation a bit cynical,” one person says....
...To help Dubai meet ambitious tourism targets, Tatweer, a diversified tourism and industrial development group, is to open branches of the Caprice and the Ivy, owned by Richard Caring, next year....
...The town has an advantage over other homes of Ivy League institutions in that it shares a name with the prestigious school, which was until 1896 called College of New Jersey....
...The city also has many universities, including the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania just west of the centre....
...This is the accompanying entry: “Ivy League luminary, iron-will athlete. Quick witted, quietly spoken. Decisive in action, modest in demeanour. Sets the pace, gives credit with grace....
...Why is Holly in favour but not Ivy? Why have hardly any girls been called Diana recently – either before Princess Di’s death or afterwards?...
...From 2007 the TUC could effectively hold its annual meeting at a table for two at The Ivy....
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