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...In the aftermath, activist hedge funds including Elliott Management and Jeff Smith’s Starboard Value launched campaigns targeting Willis....
...Jeff Ubben, another well-known, climate-focused investor, wound down his Inclusive Capital fund last year....
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...But there was also Laura Wade’s mischievous adaptation of The Watsons (2018), Austen’s unfinished novel, in which the characters started to rebel against the author....
...“We calculated that the corporate tax rise would generate $700bn, so that is a big gap to fill,” said Garrett Watson, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation think-tank....
...Jeff Bezos offers Nasa $2bn discount for lunar contract Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has offered to cover $2bn in costs in exchange for being awarded a Nasa contract to help land astronauts on the moon as soon...
...Former General Electric chief executive Jeff Immelt generated headlines for travelling with two jets, one of them a back-up....
...Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to return American astronauts to the surface of the moon, beating rival tech billionaire Jeff Bezos to one of the most prominent prizes in the commercial space race....
...Billionaire space race: advantage Branson Richard Branson has pulled ahead of rival billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to get to the edge of space first, by bringing forward his first trip...
...Break-up Monday: two megamergers fall apart It was one of the most tumultuous days for the stock market in March 2020 when insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson announced a $30bn tie-up....
...Altos is reportedly backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, a Russian-born billionaire tech investor and friend of Mark Zuckerberg....
...While its boss Jeff Bezos won kudos at the weekend for taking a stand against a racist email he received for supporting Black Lives Matter, his company’s sale of its Rekognition technology to law enforcement...
...Jeff Bezos’s retail monolith delivered its lucrative Amazon Prime Day event, but with it came an Amazon Prime Day strike....
...Mr Ubben, who has sat on the boards of companies including Twenty-First Century Fox, Willis Towers Watson and Valeant Pharmaceuticals, described the concept as “among the breakout ideas that is needed today...
...(FT) Jeff Bezos’s master plan Jeff Bezos has never dominated a market as thoroughly as Andrew Carnegie or John D Rockefeller....
...Sloan’s software splurge continues Jeff Sloan is not finished yet....
...Or will she be the next Jeff Immelt, the GE boss whose silver tongue and unquestioned smarts masked a failure to deal with the rot at the heart of the company’s business?...
...“The mandate from [Amazon chief] Jeff Bezos is clear,” reported the industry publication Variety two months before the deal was announced. “Bring me Game of Thrones.”...
...About $88bn has been invested in ILS, up from $24bn in 2011, according to Willis Towers Watson Securities....
...At Persimmon, shareholders narrowly supported the pay report, which made chief executive Jeff Fairburn the highest-earning chief executive in the UK with a payout of £75m....
...IBM has used Watson, its artificial intelligence technology, to help companies reduce the amount they spend on outside counsel....
...“What we saw last year was a shareholder community that was entirely divided [on the topic],” says Mark Reid, who heads up the pay consultancy at Willis Towers Watson....
...Persimmon on a tear Jeff Fairburn, chief executive of housebuilder Persimmon, is used to tearing up the landscape....
...Sometimes I write things that greatly amuse me — like how Jeff Bezos keeps his vitamin pills in his socks — which you judged stupid....
...McNerney left GE in 2000 after being passed over in favour of Jeff Immelt for the top job. And now Boeing, the company where he arrived in 2005, is a bigger one than GE....
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