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...Byers joined Sports Direct from fashion chain River Island in 1992. Full tale here....
...Baird, the financial services firm, has hired Gregg Byers and Chamila Ariyachandra to bolster its oilfield services practice. Both join from PwC’s investment banking division....
...Research by James Westphal of the University of Michigan and Ithai Stern of Northwestern University, found that when it comes to boards, being likeable gets you more seats....
...The engineer, identified as James Damore, confirmed his dismissal in an email to media organisations, saying he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes”....
...The keyboardist’s name is Kris Bowers, not Chris Byers as originally stated...
...Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the US venture capital fund, calculates that 85 cents of every new dollar spent on digital ads in the US went to those two companies in the first quarter...
...Among the larger businesses hit by flooding again are the McVitie’s biscuit factory in Carlisle, James Walker, the specialist sealant maker, in Cumbria, and papermaker James Cropper in Kendal....
...“All of a sudden, someone with a particular profile — a talent, or work availability — can be matched with a need,” says James Manyika, a partner at McKinsey....
...Version one “was a good try”, John Maeda, design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference last week. “Let’s see what comes next.”...
...James Mackintosh explains why it is little more than superstition to look at records of the past and why we need to keep an eye on the future — indices are odd beasts. (FT)...
...James Mackintosh explains why it is little more than superstition to look at records of the past and why we need to keep an eye on the future – indices are odd beasts....
...Samir Desai, James Meekings, Andrew Mullinger Funding Circle British The trio behind Funding Circle, the London-based peer-to-peer lender, met at Oxford University and founded the company in 2010....
...Ed Byers, head of diversified industries Emea at JPMorgan, says: “There is no doubt that chief executives are keen to put their balance sheet to work given overall confidence levels are higher....
...Indian e-commerce — James Crabtree, Mumbai 2014 was the year Indian ecommerce finally grew up....
...Mr Cowley had attracted criticism for staying on the board for 32 years, but Mr Perkins, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture capitalist, was seen by some as the only director likely to challenge...
...Among the new funders for Groupon are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz....
...The report’s authors were James Manyika, Michael Chui, Brad Brown, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Charles Roxburgh and Angela Hung-Byers ....
...Labour’s ranks of senior Blairites were further depleted on Friday after James Purnell, the former work and pension secretary, unexpectedly announced that he would quit parliament after the election....
...James Li, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm, argues there is still a lack of translational research from universities, “with lots of funding going from government to...
...“James Purnell…Stephen Byers….Alan Milburn…Ruth Kelly….all have chosen to relinquish their seats to pursue careers outside frontline Labour politics....
...James McNaught-Davis, managing partner of UK-based clean-tech investor WHEB Ventures, says the shortage of financing from banks and other sources may be creating more opportunities for specialist funds in...
...Gordon Brown’s swift reshuffle was designed to distract attention from James Purnell’s dramatic resignation and close down the backbench rebellion before it had got off the ground....
...Stephen Byers, the Blairite former cabinet minister, said the party needed a leader “who sees Labour MPs as colleagues to be worked with and not threats to be briefed against”....
...They are co-ordinating their positions closely with Blairite cabinet ministers including David Miliband, foreign secretary, who made a thinly disguised claim to the leadership last week, James Purnell,...
...Nick Brown, chief whip, went public that evening on a list of five names thought to be central to the plot: Graham Allen, Graham Stringer, Paul Farrelly, Stephen Byers and Alan Milburn....
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