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...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Law firm McDermott Will & Emery issued a fresh round of promotions. View them here....
...Eileen Murray, the outgoing co-chief executive of Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, was appointed to the board of directors of real estate start-up Compass....
...“Improvements can be made throughout the proxy process, including around voting processes, shareholder proposals and proxy advisers,” Barbara Novick, BlackRock’s vice-chairman, and Ray Cameron, head of investment...
...Letter in response to this article Millennials mean business in the travel industry / From Cormac J Meehan...
...Meredith was advised by BDT & Company and Moelis with legal advice from McDermott Will & Emery and Cooley. shannon.bond@ft.com @shannonpareil @FTMedia...
...J Sainsbury has been trying to teach the people who man its social networks to be pally in just the right way....
...On Wednesday, J Sainsbury warned that there had been a dramatic change in grocery shopping habits, despite the improving outlook....
.... ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Hong Kong’s lessons on maintaining financial integrity / From Mr Sheldon Ray...
...The only thing they had left was one ray of hope that things would get better, that somebody would help them or save them. This is what Sean has done – and like no one else has....
...An influential proxy advisory firm has urged Hewlett-Packard shareholders to vote against the re-election of Ray Lane, the chairman, and two other directors, over their handling of its Autonomy acquisition...
...Ray Lane will be succeeded as chairman temporarily by Ralph Whitworth until a permanent replacement is identified....
...Institutional Shareholder Services recommended investors vote against the chair, Ray Lane, Mr Hammergren and Mr Thompson, on the grounds they mishandled the $11bn acquisition of Autonomy in 2011 – most of...
...When Ray Lane stepped down as chairman of Hewlett-Packard this month, making way for the activist investor Ralph Whitworth, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System was a strong presence in backroom...
...At Wednesday’s annual meeting, Ray Lane, HP chairman, was re-elected with only 59 per cent of the vote and its longest-serving directors, John Hammergren and Ken Thompson, received 54 per cent and 55 per...
...Ray Lane, chairman, won less than 59 per cent support for his re-election, compared with 96 per cent a year earlier....
...The chairman, Ray Lane, got just 59 per cent support, while the two directors responsible for the committee overseeing how HP spends its capital, John Hammergren and G....
...“I think they are talking about all of [Best Buy’s sales] added together” for that one day, Ray Yam, the China chief of smartphone maker HTC, told the Financial Times....
...One ray of light was the company’s export business, which saw net revenue increase by nearly half as volumes rose 62.9 per cent....
...Time for plan B C D E F G H I J K L M? BofA is said to be considering — not seriously according to the WSJ — issuing “tracker stocks” on Merrill Lynch....
...Director Ray Lane, who at that point became executive chairman of HP, said after the US markets closed on Thursday that Mr Whitworth “will bring a constructive voice and a track record of value creation...
...J&J, which has a diversified healthcare business including drugs and devices, said on Wednesday it would pay SFr159 a share for Synthes, a 8.5 per cent premium over the Swiss company’s closing share price...
...According to Bloomberg, an internal BofA memo was released Wednesday morning quashing those takeover rumours: “Some blogs are speculating about rumors of merger talks with J.P....
...“Ronald Reagan was an actor: he was a pretty good president,” Ray Lane, HP’s chairman, told CNBC on Friday....
...Instead of announcing a new search and perhaps an interim chief executive late on Thursday, the board picked director Meg Whitman as chief executive and moved Ray Lane from non-executive chairman to full-time...
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