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...Job moves The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has named Anton Orlich, the former head of alternative investments at healthcare group Kaiser Permanente, as head of private equity....
...Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, compares Mr Musk to a “21st century Isambard Kingdom Brunel”, the legendary engineer whose ingenious designs for railways and steamships revolutionised transport...
...Last week, Dayton Power & Light, a subsidiary of AES Corp, announced it planned to shut two coal-fired plants in Ohio next year....
...Withings’ Aura is an intelligent bedside clock, designed to look a bit like an old steamship funnel, which connects to a long pad placed under the mattress to measure sleep patterns....
...Even companies that start with freewheeling ambitions to be different need “guard rails”, which is how Kaiser Permanente, the US healthcare group, described the non-negotiable rules it used to manage its...
...“He made me the president of Canada Steamship Lines when I was 33,” Mr Martin, 75, said on Wednesday....
...Its application for receivership follows the bankruptcy last year of Sanko Steamship, while another Japanese competitor, Daiichi, received emergency financing from a large shareholder in October....
...In July, Sanko Steamship filed for bankruptcy with $2bn of debt – a victim of shipping oversupply, rising fuel prices and declining freight charges....
...Shipowners worldwide could be facing the biggest single default of the global shipping crisis after Sanko Steamship, one of Japan’s largest privately held shipping lines, asked owners of its more than 150...
...The crisis forced General Maritime, the second-largest US-based oil tanker owner by fleet size, into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November and threatens the future of Sanko Steamship, one of Japan...
...They’re like a steamship, not very flexible. We’re used to going pretty fast. Second is that we just didn’t want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors.”...
...gaudy blue-painted boat on the muddy River Pará in the Brazilian Amazon looked like something out of Fitzcaraldo, the Werner Herzog film about a rubber baron, who at the start of the 20th century drags a steamship...
...We do not worry that steamships stole the margins of sailing fleet operators. Other practices are less innocuous....
...His first serious in-company work was with AT&T and, over the years, he has worked with corporations from Boeing to Microsoft and organisations from Nasa to Kaiser Permanente....
...Microsoft’s HealthVault, a similar service, has the same problems, although it did announce a deal with health provider Kaiser Permanente last week to add records from its 8.7m members....
...The philosophy driving Kaiser Permanente’s domestic development boils down to two words: high-technology efficiency....
...Aged 21, Doriot sailed by steamship to the US from his native France and went on to become a brigadier general in the second world war, one of the most influential professors at Harvard Business School and...
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