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...Edited excerpts from the book proposals of the three finalists in the 2018 Bracken Bower Prize....
...Time has cast a shadow on the sprawling conglomerate model Mr Welch championed, as well as on Jeff Immelt, the “fantastic new CEO” Mr Welch writes of handpicking to be his successor....
...Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, said earlier on Saturday the justice department would seek charges “that could lead to the death penalty”....
...Leaders: Myth and Reality, by Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone, Portfolio Penguin, RRP£14.99/$30 Former four-star general Stanley McChrystal and his ex-military co-authors borrow from Plutarch...
...The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone [winner of the 2013 award] is an example of a great real business book (real, unlike, say, Poor Economics)....
...Bracken Bower Prize Are you under 35 with an idea for a book that tackles emerging business themes? Submit a proposal for The Bracken Bower Prize by September 30....
...Jeff Koons, the narcissistic showman, is closing down the old Whitney with bursts of glossy steel....
...At the same time, he teases their ostentatious machismo by placing them in bright, sweet bowers....
...In a scathing biography about the Virgin founder published this year, author Tom Bower cast doubt on whether the enterprise would ever launch....
...“He has to demonstrate the clarity of his policy,” said Jeff Bader, who was Mr Obama’s Asia adviser in the White House for part of his first term....
...Starting in 1994 with a list of 20 names (all internal candidates), by 2000 Mr Welch and colleagues had a final shortlist of three – Jim McNerney, Bob Nardelli and Jeff Immelt....
...happy-go-lucky style, Branson says he and his children will be on board the maiden flight later this year (although he initially predicted that his first passengers would take off in 2007; since then, as Tom Bower...
...Mike Bowers, group counsel of Tui Travel, sounds relaxed about how a possible Greek exit from the eurozone might affect tourism....
...Davis refocused McKinsey on the Bower principles....
...He resigned in May 2007 after lying about how he met his boyfriend, Jeff Chevalier, who sold his story to a newspaper....
...In the 1860s, Leighton, Rossetti and Whistler were reckoned as far apart as, say, David Hockney and Jeff Koons are today. Leighton was a neo-classicist....
...“If CEOs want to duck the succession issue they find ways of doing it,” says Joseph Bower, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The CEO Within....
...Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, by Jeff Rubin (Virgin 2009), and $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better by Christoper Steiner...
...Marvin Bower, the father of modern management consulting, had clear expectations of how colleagues at his firm McKinsey & Co should behave....
...In the US, General Electric formally identified Jeff Immelt, Robert Nardelli and Jim McNerney as potential successors to outgoing chief executive Jack Welch....
...“It is unusual for a chief executive to stabilise a company, refocus it and help it to grow,” says Joseph Bower, a professor at Harvard Business School....
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