John Harmon, Sr.

London Tide, National Theatre — Dickens turned into restless river drama with music by PJ Harvey

...Here, as in the novel, it’s the Thames that launches the plot, when the body of a young man, one John Harmon, is hauled from its depths by Gaffer Hexam (Jake Wood), a scavenging river man....

April 17, 2024

Letter

Letter: Americans view compassion with different lens

...John Burn-Murdoch’s piece “Does the American dream foster inequality?”...

December 19, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Evercore

How M&A boutique Evercore became ‘Goldman North’

...His father, John Sr, also led the bank. John Weinberg’s cousin Peter Weinberg is a Goldman veteran who founded Perella Weinberg Partners....

March 13, 2024

Edward Luce

Joe Biden’s year of living dangerously

...Among these, George HW Bush, John Adams, Jimmy Carter and John Kennedy stand out....

November 10, 2023

News in-depthBenjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s American crisis

...Secretary of state John Kerry apologised to Netanyahu after an unnamed US official described the Israeli premier as a myopic, pompous “chicken shit”....

March 18, 2024

ReviewTelevision

Billions, Season 7 — leaps of financial fantasy saved by a superb cast

...Or perhaps the entire plot line around a serpentine Russian oligarch Grigor Andolov played by John Malkovich....

August 11, 2023

FT Live

Innovation in Wealth Management Summit

Augmented intelligence for client-centric services

John Thornhill

How technology reinvented chess as a global social network

...smash 2020 television hit The Queen’s Gambit, Netflix’s most-watched mini-series in 63 countries, also won over new fans, especially among girls wanting to emulate the triumphs of chess prodigy Elizabeth Harmon...

May 4, 2023

Edward Luce

The paranoid style in American politics

...RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House. The most his son could probably expect is to become an icon of the delusions of his time....

June 7, 2023

News in-depthBankruptcy

‘Tyranny of the majority’: creditor infighting comes to $1.4tn leveraged loan market

...“Very few of these liability management transactions have been successful,” said Mike Harmon, a former investor at Oaktree Capital who now teaches at Stanford University....

April 26, 2023

ReviewFiction

The Singularities by John Banville — a writerly return to past themes

...The novel opens with a shifty ex-con named Felix Mordaunt arriving at Arden, the country house where Godley Sr lay dying in The Infinities....

November 1, 2022

News in-depthMars Petcare

New Mars boss bets on petcare as private empire aims to double sales

...Mars’s board approved the expense but Weihrauch thought he should make one more call, to John Mars, the oldest surviving member of the Mars family’s third generation....

March 23, 2023

ReviewBiography and memoir

Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America

...Henry Jr had dinner with FDR the night before he died, and Bob was with Bobby Kennedy when he learnt John F Kennedy had been shot....

September 29, 2022

ReviewBusiness books

FT business books: what to read this month

...‘The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown’, by Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr Uncertainty in life is, ironically, certain....

July 13, 2022

InterviewPhilippines

Philippines’ economic tsar brushes aside fears of ‘cronyism’ under Marcos Jr

...During Marcos Sr’s two decades in power, he plundered billions of dollars worth of state assets, according to Philippine officials who have tried to recover it after his 1986 ouster in a popular revolt....

June 22, 2022

FT SeriesLeading in a crisis

Mars’ outgoing CEO on succession, family businesses and eating his own dog food

...The Mars credo, that it should provide a “mutuality of benefits” to consumers, distributors, employees, shareholders and others, was laid down in 1947 by Forrest Mars Sr, the son of Frank and inventor of...

September 29, 2022

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

FT SeriesFestive food and drink special 2022

How Americans ruined tequila — and the true believers saving it

...And it was also led by two savvy south California businessmen, Martin Crowley and John Paul DeJoria, who founded the company in 1989....

November 17, 2022

Transcript

Musk would let Trump back on Twitter

...Marc FilippinoThat’s the FT’s John Reed....

May 11, 2022

War in Ukraine

Biden administration urged to ban UK lawyers who ‘enabled’ oligarchs

...of CMS; Keith Schilling of Schillings; and Shlomo Rechtschaffen of SR law....

April 19, 2022

John Gapper

Chess faces stalemate in its match with machines

...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this article: A chess redesign would be move in the right direction / From Nick Goulder, Saffron Walden, Essex, UK...

November 26, 2021

Arts

2022 in the arts: exhibitions and performance

...Another generational story is told in Prayer for the French Republic, a new play from award-winning Joshua Harmon presented by Manhattan Theater Club: in this, a French Jewish family’s history examines themes...

December 31, 2021

FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas

Our 25 favourite hotel bars

...That’s because the spirit endures, and the bar encapsulates it: high stools, barefoot dress code, strong mojitos, cool breezes, big stories. nihi.com SR...

November 24, 2021

Arts

Podcast ‘Hunting Ghislaine’ asks how Maxwell became a monster

...The series is written and hosted by John Sweeney, the long-serving British reporter best known for his work on the BBC current affairs series Panorama....

November 22, 2020

FT Magazine

‘Don’t murder this place’: the sacred Native American land at risk

...For more than a year, Wendsler Nosie Sr has been living at the Oak Flat campground, 65 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona....

April 2, 2021

The Bracken Prize

A reading list to prepare for a post-pandemic age

...Raghuram Rajan, winner in 2010 for Fault Lines, and shortlisted in 2019 for The Third Pillar, suggested Titan: The Life of John D....

April 11, 2021

HTSI

Palermo grande: a stunning hotel restoration unveils Sicily’s hidden gem

...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....

June 11, 2021

Search Results

Viewing results 1‒25 of 163

Viewing results 1‒25 of 163

Related links