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...In a damning open letter to the company’s chairman last December, Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Twitter shareholder, attacked Mr Dorsey’s “lack of self-awareness...
...He might not appear to have much in common with Jack Welch, who died last week, but they share a dangerous habit of conflating the individual with the institution, John Thornhill writes....
...Know My Name, the new memoir from Chanel Miller, the “Emily Doe” who was violently and sexually assaulted by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, came out this week....
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...“Its underperformance in power is due to many factors, all of which can be addressed by the new leadership team,” he wrote. As well as praising Mr Culp, he paid a rueful tribute to Mr Flannery....
...GE was built into a sprawling conglomerate by Jack Welch, chief executive from 1981 to 2001, and his three successors — Jeff Immelt, John Flannery, and now Mr Culp — have had to work out how best to dismantle...
...The division has two headquarters, in Schenectady, New York, and Atlanta, as well as answering ultimately to Boston, and Mr Culp is collapsing those three management centres into one, so the heads of the...
...Speaking of Brexit, it appears the UK and EU are set to miss the target of a deal by October. (FT) Guess who’s back? Mr Brexit, aka Nigel Farage, is weighing a bid to become mayor of London....
...in New York — @markvdvd...
...John Flannery’s announcement of his plans as General Electric’s new chief executive, along with the halving of its dividend, led to a 7 per cent fall in its shares on Monday....
...The sector is attracting more players — such as Second Home in London and NeueHouse in New York, which seeks to foster an atmosphere similar to that of a private members’ club....
...So let us enter Iksil’s world… Iksil was one of 140 traders in the CIO, which had a total staff of 425 spread out across London and New York....
...Jeff Immelt, who has just passed his 10th anniversary as chief executive, was taught in “The Pit” – the main lecture theatre at the New York campus – by his predecessor Mr Welch, who himself took a one-week...
...Interactive Brokers in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, may cause some prospective plaintiffs to reconsider....
...Twenty years on, some of Auster’s early works, such as The New York Trilogy, now seem like elegant but dusty period pieces....
...As Mr Welch told the FT last week, the private equity industry realises that “with the credit tightness and risk adjustment that is going on right now, operations are the way out of the current issues”....
...Jack Welch, the former chief executive of GE, wants to buy the Boston Globe from the New York Times....
...No existing game model performs in this way,” says Mr St John, chief executive of Seattle-based WildTangent....
...Born in York, 62-year old Mr Cable has held his seat since 1997, having spent 27 years trying to make it to the House of Commons....
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