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...It came out the same year as Tom Friedman’s book The World Is Flat, but had an entirely different worldview, one that turned out to be correct....
...Also, a naive trust in the Tom Friedman ‘the world is flat’ fallacy (including the profound observation that no two countries that have a McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other)....
...Lynn Rothschild, a former telecoms executive married to a scion of the European banking lineage, was a case in point....
...Lynn Stout passed away in April at the age of 60. A longtime legal scholar most recently at Cornell University, Stout was an iconoclast....
...As Harvard Business School’s Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine have written, different businesses will define their purpose in different ways, but the model that replaces Friedman’s framework must recognise that...
...Milton Friedman in the 1970s....
...“They are public watchdogs, certified public accountants,” said Daniel Fetterman, a partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, representing MF Global....
...Wear it and weep. ——————————————- vanessa.friedman@ft.com @VVFriedman More columns at ft.com/friedman...
...Porter’s view was rooted in military strategy and the late Milton Friedman’s assertion that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”....
...“Inclusive capitalism” was launched by grandees such as Lynn Forester de Rothschild, chief executive of EL Rothschild, and McKinsey’s global managing director Dominic Barton....
...If anyone is in doubt about how President Obama will look tonight at Lynn University, during the last debate of this increasingly close election, here’s a clue, courtesy of Michael Lewis’s Vanity Fair profile...
...Influential opinions have played a role, including Milton Friedman’s 1970 New York Times article The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits....
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...“With an open process like this there’s always a tail risk people will vote for a nutcase,” says Lynn Forester de Rothschild, one of American Elect’s strongest backers....
...“Things are quiet … and we would not be surprised if that would carry on,” says Lynn Fordham, chief executive at SVG Capital, the listed investor in UK buy-out fund Permira....
...This is pre-consommé but post-bread and crudités; pre-Edgar Bronfman, the chief executive of Warner Music Group, coming over to pay his respects but post-wave with Lynn Forrester, the entrepreneur and wife...
...This, in any case, was the plan Renwick sold to Richard Balfour-Lynn, chief executive of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group, which bought Liberty in 2000 with plans to turn round the ailing store opened by...
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