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...DIANE GLOSSMAN: You had on the one hand Citi that had a huge business around the globe, known to be an innovator in technology and credit card....
...“I have received more business delegations from China [and am] doing a lot of logistics warehousing.” Chan mostly attributes the uptick to political tensions....
...case for doing something about it....
...The 55-year-old company is synonymous with credit cards, but its business is best described as the plumbing that supports much of the global payments system....
...In the western US, there is ZeroDown, a start-up backed by Y Combinator, the business incubator behind such internet hits as Instacart and Airbnb....
...Apple is already expanding its own fledgling ads business. Any iPhone user can turn off these “personalised” ads, but by default they are turned on — an option plenty of critics see as hypocritical....
...Last year, as a prime example, the influential Business Roundtable in the US revised its definition of the primary purpose of a company to state that they should now benefit all stakeholders: customers,...
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...Analysts say a default would prevent Argentina’s government, regions and companies from tapping financial markets for credit. Foreign investment would dry up, hitting growth and tax collection....
...But as the use of data has exploded, so too have large data breaches, such as the leak of Facebook information to Cambridge Analytica, the political consultants, or the hack of the credit rating agency Equifax...
...hedge funds doing the mining....
...The two say that Bridgewater thought of teams as “collections of values, abilities, and skills”....
...“Being a fund manager and trying to do well is rather like doing the crossword.”...
...In July it became the first jeweller to create its own sponsored “lens” templates on Snapchat messages as part of its #LoveNotLike campaign, promoting its entry-level “Return to Tiffany Love” collection....
...All of these companies are trying to grow as fast as possible, even though they are in an area of business where rapid growth isn’t necessarily a good thing....
...But doing nothing is not an option....
...Many investors see Barclays as a haphazard collection of businesses thrown together almost by chance: a British high street bank; an investment bank with strong US and UK roots; a global credit card operation...
...“But it’s not the case that everyone’s business has been doing extremely well.”...
...He describes the collection of houses as the modern equivalent of the Californian garages that once provided accommodation for some of the biggest names in technology....
...“Compared to doing business in Venezuela, this is easy.” In addition to the federal ban, the tangle of local laws that regulate marijuana is complex and often vague....
...Maybe banks, in a bid to keep up with technology companies, will have no choice but to open their platforms and their data collections to advertisers?...
...“You should get as much credit for not doing deals as you should for doing deals . . . but you don’t,” Mr Smith says....
...Mariana Zanetti did an MBA about 10 years ago at IE Business School in Spain – a school that would qualify, using Prof Pfeffer’s definition, as an elite institution....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
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